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My research focuses on the sustainable use of natural resources integrating ecological, social and economic perspectives. Currently I am working to apply resilience concepts in an operational way in the context of forests and forestry. The aim of this work is to understand the practical value of these ideas in natural resource management: are these concepts compatible with systems focused on resource production? Should enhanced resilience be an objective of management? If so, how does one manage ‘for’ resilience and what are the trade-offs associated with doing so? I am also interested in the use of adaptive management, particularly the value of experimentation in resource management and conservation.
My previous work has been in the tropical context, for example I have worked on assessing the livelihood consequences of biofuel expansion and commercial logging, the use of traditional ecological knowledge in forest management and the sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products. I teach at undergraduate and post graduate levels on a variety of these topics including a PhD field course in Jokkmokk that looks at the local socio-ecological impact of global drivers of change and natural resource related conflicts.
Publications
Rist, L. B.M. Campbell and P. Frost, (in review) Adaptive management; where are we now? Submitted to Environmental Conservation.
Rist, L. and J. Moen. (accepted) Does resilience offer a new model for sustainable forest management? Ecology and Society.
Rist, L., Shanley, P., Sunderland, T., Sheil, D., Ndoye, O., Liswanti, N. and J. Tieguhong. (in press) The impacts of selective timber harvest on non-timber forest products of livelihood importance. Forest Ecology and Management. DOI
Lee, J.S.H., Rist, L., Obidzinski, K., Ghazoul, J. and Koh, L.P. (2011) No farmer left behind in sustainable biofuel production. Biological Conservation Volume 144, Issue 10, Pages 2512-2516. DOI
Rist, L., Uma Shaanker, R., and Ghazoul, J. 2011. The spatial distribution of mistletoe in a tropical forest at multiple scales. Biotropica 43:1, 50–57 DOI
Rist, L., Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N., Fleischer-Dogley, F., Edwards, P., Bunbury, N. and Ghazoul 2010. Sustainable Harvesting of Coco de Mer, Lodoicea maldivica, in the Vallée de Mai, Seychelles. Forest Ecology and Management. 260: 2224-2231 DOI
Rist, L. and Levang, P. 2010. “I want to change my fate now” The livelihood impacts of oil palm in Indonesia. Geographische Rundschau International 6 (4),10-15.
Rist, L., Feintrenie, L. A. and Levang, P. 2010. The livelihood impacts of oil palm: smallholders in Indonesia. Biodiversity and Conservation. 19 (4), 1009-1024. DOI
Rist, L., Uma Shaanker, R., Milner-Gulland E.J., and Ghazoul, J. 2010. Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest management, an example from India. Ecology and Society 15(1), 3. Link
Rist, L., Lee, J. and Koh, L.P. 2009. Biofuels: Social benefits. Science 326, 1344. DOI
Rist, L., Uma Shaanker, R., Milner‐Gulland E.J., and Ghazoul, J. 2008. Managing mistletoes: the value of local practices for a non‐timber forest resource. Forest Ecology and Management 255, 1684‐1691. DOI
Other (non peer-reviewed) publications
Rist, L. (in press) Reconciling selective logging with the livelihood importance of NTFPs. Non‐wood news No.23. Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome.
Rist, L., Uma Shaanker, R., Milner-Gulland E.J., and Ghazoul, J. 2010. Combining TEK and conventional scientific data in forest management. Traditional Knowledge Bulletin. 1 June 2010. Link
Rist, L. 2009. A Synthesis of UN-REDD Programme Activities. UN-REDD, Geneva.
Rist, L. 2009. Mistletoe infection of Amla, the value of local management practices. Non‐wood news No.19. Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome.
Rist, L. 2007. Parasitism of Amla, an economically significant NTFP. Non‐wood news No.14. Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome.
