Mr Mike JONES
Advisor, Centrum för biologisk mångfald
Mike is currently working as an advisor to the Swedish Biodiversity Centre; teaching systems thinking for sustainable development to undergraduate and Master’s degree students and doing policy-oriented research for the management of ecosystems as social-ecological systems. He has forty-eight years of experience in conservation and development, mostly in southern and eastern Africa and the western USA. Mike’s background is in wildlife ecology, rangeland ecology, protected area management, community conservation and the application of systems science to ecosystem management approaches such as Nature-based Solutions. He is Chair of the Resilience Theme Group in IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystem Management; and a member of the International Association of Impact Assessors.