Barometer Core team
The Restoration Barometer, the 2016 development of the original framework and protocol document, was led by Dr Radhika Dave, Lara Murray and Tim Pearson with support from Leander Raes, Silvio Simonit and Gabriel Antunes Daldegan. The current team members are,
- Carole Saint-Laurent, Assitant Director, Forest Conservation Programme
- Swati Hingorani, Senior Programme Officer, Forest Conservation Programme
- Dr Muneeswaran Mariappan, Geospatial Analyst, Forest Conservation Programme
- Caroline Cogueto, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer, Brazil Country Office
- Silvia Guzzardi, Programme Officer, Monitoring and Learning, Forest Conservation Programme
- Corbett Nash, Knowledge and Outreach Officer, Forest Conservation Programme
- Florian Reinhard, Programme Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation, Forest Conservation Programme
- Alexandra IBRAGIMOVA, Ecosystem Management Project Officer, ECARO
Contributors
The creation and evolution of the Restoration Barometer have been a robust step-by-step process dating back to 2016 and gradually progressing to the present. The scope of the Barometer continually expanded as the tool improved. Along the way, it has benefitted immensely from the insights of a diverse group of experts. In 2020, the Barometer framework’s material was extensively revised to respond to user feedback, including improvements to the economy and biodiversity indicators and develop a first-of-its-kind typology of restoration interventions to allow land-to-seascape tracking of restoration efforts.
Contributors to making the Barometer the successful tool it is today include:
IUCN Experts:
- Bora Masumboko, Senior Programme Officer, Drylands
- Boris Erg, Director, IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Cate Owren, Senior Gender Programme Manager, Governance and Rights
- Chris Buss, Director, Forest Conservation Programme
- Charles Karangwa, Regional Head, Land Systems / Country Representative, Rwanda
- Daniel Marnewick, IUCN Green List Regional Programme Officer
- Dorothee Herr, Manager, Oceans and Climate Change
- Elmedina Krilasevic, Senior Programme Coordinator, Forest Conservation Programme
- Emily Goodwin, Programme Officer – Ecosystem-Based Adaptation
- Dr James Dalton, IUCN Global Water Programme
- James McBreen, Senior Programme Officer – Forest Conservation Programme
- Jonathan Davies, Global Coordinator – Global Drylands Initiative
- Kathryn Bimson, Programme Coordinator, Water, Wetlands and Nature-based Solutions
- Kevin Smith, Invasive Species Programme Officer
- Laila Annouri, Programme Manager, Dry Land, Livelihoods and Gender
- Leander Raes, Economist, Economic Knowledge Unit
- Mercedes Munoz Canas, Nature Conservation and Food Systems, Mediterranean Cooperation Center
- Neil Cox, Manager, IUCN-CI Biodiversity Assessment Unit
- Radhika Dave, Senior Programme Coordinator, Science & Practice Forest Conservation Programme
- Raphael Glement, Senior Programme Officer, Water and Wetlands
- Russell Galt, Head of Urban Alliance
- Silvio Simonit, Coordinator Operativo, Mexico
- Dr Scott Perkin, Head, Natural Resources Group, Asia
- Tony Nello, Regional Project Coordinator, ORMAAC
- Dr William Darwall, Head, Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, Global Species Programme
External Experts:
- Benjamin Christ, Senior Manager, Planning & Facilitation, Impact by Design
- Dominic Andradi-Brown, Senior Marine Scientist at World Wildlife Fund
- Gabriel Antunes Daldegan, Consultant, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme
- John Stanturf, Visiting Professor, Estonian University of Life Sciences and Senior Forest Restoration Specialist at InNovaSilva TpS.
- Laila Annouri, Regional Manager of the Drylands, Livelihoods and Gender Program, IUCN West Asia Regional Office
- Lara Murray, Senior Program Associate, Ecosystem ServicesSenior Program Associate, Ecosystem Services, Winrock International
- Maria Mejia, Lead – BiodiverCities by 2030 Initiative at Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
- Mike Acreman, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (United Kingdom)
- Peter Frost; Urban Green Infrastructure Advisor, Natural Resources Wales;
- Richard Lindsay, Principal Lecturer, Ecology, Conservation and Environmental Sustainability, University of East London
- Tim Pearson, Director, Winrock International
- Dr Thomas Worthington, Research Associate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Organisations/task forces that contributed include International Labour Organisation, IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights, IUCN Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and the IUCN Task Force on Agriculture.
The governments of Rwanda, the U.S.A, El Salvador, Mexico (Quintana Roo) and Brazil played a key role in the piloting of the protocol.
As part of the 2020 revision, a critical update was the nuancing of the definition of ‘hectares under restoration’ for Indicator five. Many thanks to Professor Jeff Sayer, Faculty of Forestry, UBC, for the formulation now used by the Barometer.