DR. TAMARA MITROFANENKO

Areas of Expertise

Sustainable regional development, public participation in nature protection, capacity building, science-policy-practice interface, Education for Sustainable Development

Brief Bio

I have been working in the field of sustainable development of the mountainous regions for 14 years, for the most part – as a consultant for the United Nations Environment Programme, Office in Vienna, Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, as well as working for a non-profit “Zoi Environment Network”. Since 2015, I combine my UNEP work with academic work at the University of Natural Resources and life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN).

My main experience is in managing international multi-stakeholder projects in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development, and my work has been largely focused on Central and Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus countries.

My PhD Thesis, which I developed as part of Doctoral School of Sustainable Development (dokNE) at BOKU, and defended in 2018, and which is strongly based on my UNEP-related work, was focused on “Integrating approaches from the Intergenerational field into protected area management and regional development governance”.

Since learning about the importance of transdisciplinary approaches for sustainable regional development, my work and research has largely focused on integration of transdisciplinary approaches into academic systems and policy processes as well as science-policy-practice interface in the context of sustainable regional development, as well as Education for Sustainable Development.

Publications:

https://forschung.boku.ac.at/fis/suchen.person_publikationen?sprache_in=de&menue_id_in=102&id_in=145468