Jerome Vanclay
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Jerome Vanclay is Professor for Sustainable Forestry at Southern Cross University (SCU), and is a project leader in the CRC for Forestry. Before joining SCU, he was Principal Scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and Professor of Tropical Forestry at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jerry received a doctorate (D.Sc.For.) from the University of Queensland in 1992, and was awarded the Queen's Award for Forestry in 1997. He leads SCU's research program in decision support systems for forest management (including growth modelling and yield prediction) and teaches Forest Management and Natural Resources Policy. He is a member of the Southern Cross Group and chairs the Expert Independent Advisory Panel to the Minister of the Sustainability and Environment in Victoria (Australia).
His research interests focus on information systems for forestry and land use management. He has written 250 publications, 100 of which appear in refereed journals. He wrote the definitive text on forest growth modelling, Modelling Forest Growth and Yield (ISBN 0-85198-913-6), and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Forest Ecology and Management, Small-scale Forest Economics, Management and Policy and Forest Biometry, Modelling and Information Sciences. His most recent book Realizing Community Futures (ISBN 1-84407-383-1) deals with participatory modelling to resolve natural resource conflicts.
