
Diana FelicianoUniversity of Aberdeen | ABDN · School of Biological Sciences
Diana Feliciano
PhD in Geography
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Introduction
I am a transdisciplinary scientist in land use and climate change with degrees in Forestry Engineering (1st degree), Economics (MSc) and Geography (PhD). I currently work at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. My work covers the implications of land use change and management on climate change and ecosystems and has a strong focus on stakeholder engagement. I am have been recently seconded at the Committee on Climate Change in London, UK. I teach climate change science and policy, environmental economics and mixed- method research at the University of Aberdeen. I supervise MSc students in environmental science.
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January 2013 - present
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To identify adaptation priorities, countries aim to systematically assess their climate change risks, consistent with international agreements. National-scale risk assessment usually follows an expert-led procedure that aims to establish traction with existing policy processes. This may underrepresent important local or regional contexts, including...
The agricultural sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Ethiopia, as it is the basis of the economy and the primary source of employment. This study investigated the implementation of mitigation and adaptation practices in smallholder farms in Ethiopia, estimated GHG emissions associated with mitigation practices, and id...
In the last two decades, attention on forests and ownership rights has increased in different domains of international policy, particularly in relation to achieving the global sustainable development goals. This paper looks at the changes in forest-specific legislation applicable to regular productive forests, across 28 European countries. We compa...
This study examines forest ownership in the UNECE region. Based on data on 35 countries, and the first to include all forest ownership categories, this study investigates the changing nature and patterns of forest ownership, the ways in which governance and social structures influence forest owners and users, as well as forest management. Within th...
The decisions and actions of private forest owners are important for the delivery of forest goods and services.
Both forest ownership, and policies related to forest owners, are changing. Traditionally in most countries,
government extension officers have advised and instructed forest owners, but this is evolving, with greater
importance given to a...
This study aimed at estimating carbon footprint (CF) and assessing mitigation options for selected tropical crops using excel-based models, parameterized with data collected through closed-ended questions questionnaires, combined with a reference trial (RT). Most of the estimates using structured interviews were similar to those measured in the RT...
Societal challenges for forests in South Europe
Ensuring food security (9 billion people in 2050)
Managing natural resources sustainably
Reducing dependence on non-renewable resources
Creating jobs and maintaining European competitiveness
Sumário. Nos anos 90 surgiu em Portugal um importante movimento associativo de proprietários florestais, principalmente nas regiões do Norte e Centro do país onde predominam as propriedades florestais de pequena dimensão. Este movimento foi dinamizado pela FORESTIS-Associação Florestal de Portugal, uma organização sem fins lucrativos, de âmbito nac...
Design Type(s)
data integration objective • data collection and processing objective • factorial design
Measurement Type(s)
amount of carbon atom in soil
Technology Type(s)
digital curation
Factor Type(s)
climate • Species • experimental condition • age
Sample Characteristic(s)
Brazil • cultivated environment • Canada • United States of America • N...
Forest management, with its diverse land-use and institutional pressures, can be considered a “wicked problem”. Transdisciplinarity and social learning are considered relevant approaches of investigating “wicked problems” because they favour creative solutions, stakeholder involvement and the reframing of problems. Taking this into account, partici...
Research on forest ownership has received growing attention in recent years, particularly in relation to the effects of restitution processes in former socialist countries, emerging new forest owner types, trends towards fragmentation of ownership structures, and questions related to the steady supply of forest industries with raw materials. Litera...
Crop diversification is one of the most cost‐effective way of reducing uncertainties in farmer's income, especially among poor smallholder farmers. However, poverty is a complex concept, which includes more dimensions than only income. This review investigates the contribution of crop diversification to Sustainable Development Goal 1(SDG1) “No pove...
This study analyses the linkages between private forest owners’ perceptions of forest management, and their affinity for subsidies, in a range of European countries. Society increasingly requires the provision of ecosystem services from forests, but the willingness of forest owners to redirect management goals from wood production to the provision...
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep...
GHG emissions, water footprint, land footprint, fruit, vegetables, Brazil
Climate change mitigation and food security are two of the main challenges of human society. Agroforestry systems, defined as the presence of trees on external and internal boundaries, cropland, or on any other available niche of farmland, can provide both climate change mitigation and food. There are several types of agroforestry systems with diff...
13 Climate change mitigation and food security are two of the main challenges of human 14 society. Agroforestry systems, defined as the presence of trees on external and internal 15 boundaries, cropland, or on any other available niche of farmland, can provide both climate 16 change mitigation and food. There are several types of agroforestry syste...
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep...
Addressing the societal and environmental challenges presented by global change requires fundamental changes to the way our society produces and consumes goods and services. Securing prosperity for a growing population, dealing with resource scarcity and mitigating climate change and environmental degradation will require an increased reliance on n...
Private forest owners' involvement in forest management has been frequently examined through the attitudes, values, beliefs, objectives and motivations associated with owning and managing forestland. Owners' views on forest management do not always align with those of policymakers who believe forest owners do not actively manage their forests. Howe...
CCAFS-MOT is a tool to support farmers, policy advisors and agricultural extension services on the choice of management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) without risking food security. It is an Excel-based tool which brings together several empirical models to estimate GHG emissions in rice, cropland and livestock systems, and pr...
This chapter describes how understandings of the “rural” have progressed from a focus on either decline or amenity, whereby these more simplified understandings can be seen to have had an impact on rural policy development. The chapter argues that rural areas, including forests, need to be understood in relation to both production and integration w...
Presentation and discussion about the CCAFS-MOT to the World Bank.
Over the last 20 years, production of fresh fruits, both in crude and processed form, has increased significantly around the world (Fig. 6.1). Rising incomes and growing consumer interest in product variety, freshness, convenience, and year-round availability are among the main reasons for this increased demand (Diop and Jaffee 2005). Fruits and ve...
Aims: This study aims to determine the short term effects during off-season of pre-wetted straw and urea incorporation on lowland rice field soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions using climate change adaptation food security mitigation option tool (CCAFS-MOT) model. Study Design: The experiment was performed using a Randomized Comp...
Complex, social-environmental issues can be classified as ‘wicked problems’ because they are incorrigible and hugely challenging for policy makers. Here we re-evaluate what makes problems wicked and assess various theoretical and pragmatic approaches that have been advanced to tackle them. We do so with the aim of contributing new insights to theor...
This paper explores the environmental impacts of dietary changes consistent with the nutrition transition common in countries going through economic development, inferred from commodity supply data from FAOSTAT. Supply data for 1961 and 2011 from three case study countries which have undergone significant economic transition in recent decades (Braz...
This study explores the scope for increasing the contribution of woody biomass for private space and water heating in the North East Scotland, which corresponds to the administrative districts of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. It assesses the potential benefits in terms of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction of a partial shift from non-ren...
Forest ownership is changing across the world, and this change requires more innovative forest management. However, this issue is rarely directly addressed among scholars. This paper addresses this gap by focusing particularly on innovative forest management approaches for the properties of new forest owner types. This paper builds on innovation th...
Land use patterns are the consequence of dynamic processes that often include
important legacy issues. Evaluation of past trends can be used to investigate the role of
path dependence in influencing future land use through a reference “business as usual”
(BAU) scenario. These issues are explored with regard to objectives for woodland expansion
in S...
Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, and published by the OECD, the 2013 World Social Science Report represents a comprehensive overview of the field gathering the thoughts and expertise of hundreds of social scientists from around the world.
This edition focuses on the transformative role of the social sciences i...
Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, and published by the OECD, the 2013 World Social Science Report represents a comprehensive overview of the field gathering the thoughts and expertise of hundreds of social scientists from around the world.
This edition focuses on the transformative role of the social sciences i...
The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 commits Scotland to reduce GHG emissions by at least 42% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, from 1990 levels. According to the Climate Change Delivery Plan, the desired emission reduction for the rural land use sector (agriculture and other land uses) is 21% compared to 1990, or 10% compared to 2006 levels. In 2006, in...
Challenging greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets were set in Scotland by the Climate Change (Scotland) Act in June 2009. The national objective is to reduce GHG emissions by 42% by 2020 and 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. The GHG emission reduction targets apply both to the traded and non-traded sectors, thus including the rural lan...
Forest Owner's Associations (FOA's) providing technical support to private forest owners only appeared in Portugal at the beginning of the 1990's mainly in North and Central Portugal, where small-scale forestry is predominant. This movement was supported by Forestis - Forest Association of Portugal, a non-profit organization, created by forest owne...
This paper reviews the scope for the rural land use sector to support emissions reduction with particular reference to the role of forestry. A bottom-up approach is adopted to explore the relative contribution of different land-based activities in the region and explore the Scottish policy context and the scope for emissions reduction through new t...
Systems approaches have great potential for application in predictive ecology. In this paper, we present a range of examples, where systems approaches are being developed and applied at a range of scales in the field of global change and biogeochemical cycling. Systems approaches range from Bayesian calibration techniques at plot scale, through dat...
This paper reviews the scope for the rural land use sector to support emissions reduction with particular reference to the role of forestry. A bottom-up approach is adopted to explore the relative contribution of different land-based activities in the region and explore the Scottish policy context and the scope for emissions reduction through new t...
Background and purpose: The emergence of forest owners’ organizations (FOOs) in Portugal occurred in the 1990s. Fifteen years later there were 173 FOOs providing services to the private forest owners and also to the whole of society. This study aims to evaluate the success of FOOs in increasing their membership and the quantity of services provided...
This chapter aims to analyse sources of innovations for bio-energy at the firm level and to assess which policies have supported or impeded company innovations and business development. Our analyses are based on 14 firm-level cases from eight European countries.
The case study data were collected in 2008 and 2009 using common interview guidelines....
A key criterion of the EU's Leader approach is the demand for innovative actions to promote rural development. Given that the main objective of the COST Action E51 was the development of knowledge that enables integration of innovation and development policies for a more effective and sustainable development of the forest sector, this chapter makes...
Nature-based tourism is a rapidly growing industry sector providing new sources of livelihood for rural areas to diversify the traditional economies. Although innovativeness is an important element in the competitiveness of companies, the level of innovations in nature tourism and recreation services has not been reported as very high. The innovati...
The emergence and development of organizations of private forest owners in situations where before that they were not collectively organized is a relevant institutional innovation in forestry. This paper looks at the factors that may have contributed to this institutional change in the following countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Lithu...
This book is the result of the COST Action E51 on 'Integrating Innovation and Development Policies for the Forest Sector', which studied innovation policies and processes in the forest sector in Europe. It contains 18 chapters, which are grouped into 2 parts: one on the innovation field of territorial goods and services; and the other on wood value...
In an international trade context, environmental elements (e.g. the introduction of organic
agriculture) and the role of the country of origin could influence the demand in the market of
destination. is study aims at describing how qualitative research methods may help deepen
knowledge regarding interest towards organic products imported from Tha...
Nature-based tourism is rapidly growing industry sector providing new kinds of sources of livelihood to the rural areas to diversify the traditional economics. However, the level of innovations in nature tourism and recreation services has not been reported as very high. The innovations in nature-based tourism typically occur not as a result of spe...
This paper reports the results from the case-studies of Subgroup “Forestry
Associations” in Working Group 1 of COST Action E30 “Economic integration of urban
consumers’ demand and rural forestry production”. The main purpose of this paper
is to identify similarities and differences of forest owners’ organizations in a group of
countries from No...