Javier has extensive fieldwork experience in Brazil, Perú, Bolivia and Ecuador. He holds a Forestry BSc/MSc from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2003), with specialization on Tropical Forestry. In 2009 he gained a PhD in Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management from the University of Leon (Spain), obtained while working for the EU-funded project “Forest management by small farmers in the Amazon. An opportunity to enhance forest ecosystem stability and rural livelihoods” (ForLive).
Relevant publications authored externally to SEI
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
- Godar, J., Tizado, E.J., Pokorny, B., Johnson, J. (2012). Typology and characterization of Amazon colonists: a case study along the Transamazon Highway. Human Ecology, 40, 251-267
- Godar, J., Tizado, E.J., Pokorny, B. (2012). Who is responsible for deforestation in the Amazon? A spatially explicit analysis along the Transamazon Highway in Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management, 267, 58–73
- Godar, J. and Pokorny, B. (2009). El papel del bosque en el desarrollo rural: el caso de los pequeños productores de Medicilandia. In Pokorny B., Montero I. and Montero J.C. (eds): Productores familiares, bosques amazónicos y su potencial para el desarrollo rural. EU-ForLive project. University of Freiburg.
Books
- Pokorny, B., Godar, J., Hoch, L., Johnson, J., De Koning, J., Medina, G., Steinbrenner, R.,Vos, V.,Weigelt, J.(2010): A produção familiar como alternativa de um desenvolvimento sustentável para a Amazônia. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, 174p.
- Rents, actors, and the expansion of commodity frontiers in the Gran Chaco
- Scaling up deforestation-free production and trade with jurisdictions
- Dinâmica do desmatamento na amazônia por agricultores familiares: condições para o desenvolvimento sustentável em assentamentos rurais
- Towards more spatially explicit assessments of virtual water flows: linking local water use and scarcity to global demand of Brazilian farming commodities
- Balancing detail and scale in assessing transparency to improve the governance of agricultural commodity supply chains
- Greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss from land use change embodied in international trade of agricultural commodities: A pan-tropical assessment
- PRINCE - Policy-Relevant Indicators for Consumption and Environment
- SEI initiative on producer to consumer sustainability (P2CS)
- SES AMAZON-New spatially explicit approaches to understand Amazonian social-ecological systems and actor-specific deforestation responsibility: implications for REDD policies
- Progress in Renewable Energy and Biofuels Sustainability (PREBS)