John Reid (conservationist)
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John Reid
John Reid is the founder and president of the Conservation Strategy FundConservation Strategy Fund
Conservation Strategy Fund is an international non-governmental environmental conservation organization based in Sebastopol, CA, with offices in Arcata, CA, and Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It focuses on economic issues underlying the conservation of rainforests, oceans, and other ecosystems...
, a nonprofit international environmental organization in located in Sebastopol, CA. John has worked in conservation since 1991, promoting the use of economics to address conservation challenges. Before founding CSF, he held positions with Resources for the Future
Resources for the Future
Resources for the Future is a nonprofit organization that conducts independent research into environmental, energy, and natural resource issues, primarily via economics and other social sciences. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., RFF performs research around the world...
, Conservation International
Conservation International
Conservation International is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, which seeks to ensure the health of humanity by protecting Earth's ecosystems and biodiversity. CI’s work focuses on six key initiatives that affect human well-being: climate, food security, freshwater...
and Pacific Forest Trust.
To address the challenges inherent in conservation, John developed an innovative training program at CSF. The program uses teaches conservationists how to use practical, policy-relevant analyses on a number of themes in the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America...
, Central America
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...
and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. These themes include energy and transportation infrastructure, logging, ranching, protected areas and agriculture, among others. He designed CSF as an independent technical organization with the aim of spreading economics skills among conservation professionals. John’s work has appeared in many CSF publications, in Scientific American
Scientific American
Scientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
, Conservation Biology (journal)
Conservation Biology (journal)
Conservation Biology is a peer-reviewed academic journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, published by Wiley-Blackwell.-Scope:Conservation Biology publishes articles covering the science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity...
, Environment, the Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Political Economy
The Journal of Political Economy is an academic journal run by economists at the University of Chicago and published every two months by the University of Chicago Press. The journal publishes articles in both theoretical economics and empirical economics...
, Megadiversidade and Ambio
Ambio
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment is a multidisciplinary English language academic journal published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1972. It is published eight times a year....
. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.
External links
- http://live.csf.gotpantheon.com/sites/default/files/field-files/EcoAmericas12v.9-July_10.pdf EcoAmericas Interview with Reid