Sabine Reinecke is knowledge coordinator for the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF). She is also postdoctoral researcher at the chair of Forest and Environmental Policy at Germany’s Freiburg University. Her research interests include environmental and climate governance in forests, especially Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and Forest Landscapes Restoration, sustainable development, environmental ethics and the sociology of scientific knowledge. She has been involved in various (inter)national, transdisciplinary projects on forest-climate and biodiversity governance concerned with questions of how governance arrangements can be improved or better integrated. Her Ph.D. studies, for instance, investigated how different new modes of governance in the area of climate change work jointly together from international to local levels. She is a sociologist and political scientist by training and holds a second master’s degree in environmental governance. She has working experience in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America on land use change and sustainable resource use related to issues of water scarcity and desertification in (semi)arid regions.
