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Grazia Piras

Former senior researcher with the forest team of IIED's Natural Resources Group

Full biography
Expertise

Sustainable management of cultural and natural heritage resources, capacity building and advocacy on the role of cultural and natural values in shaping conservation and development policies; coastal zone management. Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and India.

Before IIED

German Ministry of Culture (1997-1998)
World Bank (1999);UNESCO (2001-2008)
UNEP-PAP/RAC (2008-2009)
MSc Heritage Management and Communication (Scuola Superiore Normale, Pisa); PhD Heritage Conservation and Management (University of Genova).

Current work

Coordinator of The Growing Forest Partnerships Initiative (GFP). Mainstreaming local control of forests at the local and the global level.

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Languages: English, English, French, Spanish, German and Italian

Grazia Piras's blog posts

Two rice terraces with a small forest growing between them in Nepal.

Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce

Blog, Jul 2013

When we care for it...preserving cultural and spiritual values of forests

Blog, Jul 2011

Would you like to be my partner?

Blog, May 2011

Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice

Blog, Jan 2011
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