Grahame Applegate
Master of Natural Resources, University of New England, Australia BSc (For), Australian National University, Australia Cert. Rural Technology. Forestry, Queensland Technical College, Australia Research interests: tropical forest management in Asia-Pacific, biomass assessment and climate change, tropical peat fires and peatland rehabilitation, tropical forest ecology, smallholder and community forest management Membership: Member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia |
Personal statement:
I am a forestry and natural resource management specialist, working for over 30 years in tropical forest management, community forestry and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in Indonesia where I worked for 14 years providing technical inputs to the private sector and Government of Indonesia. The work undertaken in Indonesia involved private and public funded projects, as team leader and project manager of donor funded projects, and headed up a large international forestry and environmental consulting company. Recently I have focused on climate change (REDD+), sustainable forest management and environmental issues in the forestry, plantation and mining, oil and gas sector, as well as community based forest management, forest restoration and forest plantation silviculture. I have also been involved in village-based forest management, forestry based sub-national development and national level policy development as well as forest valuations and environmental and social assessment planning and implementation for plantation development.
At the end of 2013, completed four years developing and implementing a national REDD+ demonstration activity in Indonesia. This work involved assisting to develop, cost effective monitoring methodology to monitor peat emissions and undertake incentive based rehabilitation of peat swamp forests by hydrological rehabilitation (small areas) and reforestation of degraded tropical peat lands. In recent years, I have been undertaking peat fire research and management in Indonesia and have been appointed an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Research publications:
Smith, J., Applegate, G.B. 2004. Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management? Forest Policy and Economics, 6: 153–167. [get pdf] [view online]
Poulsen, J., Applegate, G.B., Raymond, D. 2001. Code of Practice for Industrial Tree Plantation Development in the Tropics. CIFOR 2001. pp 86. [get pdf] [view online]
Applegate, G.B. 2001. Financial Costs of Reduced Impact Timber Harvesting in Indonesia: Case Study Comparisons. International Conference of Reduced Impact Logging to Advance Sustainable Forest Management: Constraints, Challenges and Opportunities, Kuching, Malaysia.
Applegate, G.B. 1998. Code of Forest Harvesting for Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission, Indonesia 1998. Compiled and edited by G. B. Applegate
Applegate, G.B., Gilmour, D.A. and Mohns, B. 1988. The use of biomass estimations in the management of forests for fuelwood and fodder production. Commonwealth Forestry Review, 67: 141-148. [get pdf] [view online]
Applegate, G.B. Vegetation of Fraser Island. 80pp. In preparation.
I am a forestry and natural resource management specialist, working for over 30 years in tropical forest management, community forestry and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in Indonesia where I worked for 14 years providing technical inputs to the private sector and Government of Indonesia. The work undertaken in Indonesia involved private and public funded projects, as team leader and project manager of donor funded projects, and headed up a large international forestry and environmental consulting company. Recently I have focused on climate change (REDD+), sustainable forest management and environmental issues in the forestry, plantation and mining, oil and gas sector, as well as community based forest management, forest restoration and forest plantation silviculture. I have also been involved in village-based forest management, forestry based sub-national development and national level policy development as well as forest valuations and environmental and social assessment planning and implementation for plantation development.
At the end of 2013, completed four years developing and implementing a national REDD+ demonstration activity in Indonesia. This work involved assisting to develop, cost effective monitoring methodology to monitor peat emissions and undertake incentive based rehabilitation of peat swamp forests by hydrological rehabilitation (small areas) and reforestation of degraded tropical peat lands. In recent years, I have been undertaking peat fire research and management in Indonesia and have been appointed an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Research publications:
Smith, J., Applegate, G.B. 2004. Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management? Forest Policy and Economics, 6: 153–167. [get pdf] [view online]
Poulsen, J., Applegate, G.B., Raymond, D. 2001. Code of Practice for Industrial Tree Plantation Development in the Tropics. CIFOR 2001. pp 86. [get pdf] [view online]
Applegate, G.B. 2001. Financial Costs of Reduced Impact Timber Harvesting in Indonesia: Case Study Comparisons. International Conference of Reduced Impact Logging to Advance Sustainable Forest Management: Constraints, Challenges and Opportunities, Kuching, Malaysia.
Applegate, G.B. 1998. Code of Forest Harvesting for Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission, Indonesia 1998. Compiled and edited by G. B. Applegate
Applegate, G.B., Gilmour, D.A. and Mohns, B. 1988. The use of biomass estimations in the management of forests for fuelwood and fodder production. Commonwealth Forestry Review, 67: 141-148. [get pdf] [view online]
Applegate, G.B. Vegetation of Fraser Island. 80pp. In preparation.