Dutch
PhD in tropical marine botany.
Fields of expertise
- Marine plants both mangroves and algae
- Marine protected areas, networks of MPAs
- Sustainable financing of protected areas
- Mangrove restoration and management
Countries of working expertise: Kenya, Tanzania, Palau, FSM, CNMI, Indonesia., Papua new Guinea, Marshall Islands., Fiji and Solomon Islands.
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas has been working on mangrove forests in Africa and Asia since the 1990s. His research output include nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers covering mangrove vegetation science, remote sensing, restoration ecology, ethnobiology and systems ecology (linking to management and governance). He is part of IUCN's Species Survival Commission's Mangrove Specialist Group.
He is also the Founding Director and General Coordinator of the excellence labeled EC-funded Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems - TROPIMUNDO.