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RAFFAELE VIGNOLA
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Climate Change Program, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
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04/02/69
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Academic background
 Agronomy engineer, Agriculture University of Florence, 1995\1996. Specialization in
Tropical Ecology; Thesis title: “Impact of extractive activities over biomass and
vegetation biodiversity in a Monsoon forest of Tamil Nadu (India)”.
 Master of Science in Environmental Socioeconomics, School of Post-graduate of the
Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE) Costa Rica.
2003-2004. Research title: Multi-disciplinary analysis of potable water provision in
peri-urban areas of El Salvador.
 PhD in Science, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Department of HumanEnvironment System,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich),
Switzerland. Thesis title: "Decision-processes across scales regarding the management
of ecosystems’ goods and services for ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change".
 Co-Investigator and Post Doctoral Research Associate at the College for
Interdisciplinary Studies and at the Institute for Resources, Environment and
Sustainability (IRES) at University of British Columbia, Canada. The project,
awarded by Social Science Research Council of Canada, focuses on the human
dimension of global change characterizing soil degradation in Costa Rica and the
relationship between ecosystem services management and poverty in Latin America.
 Professorship: Co-advisor of four CATIE MSc. on water, climate change, land
planning and institutional analysis. Principal advisor of MSc. Thesis “Ecosystem
services and adaptive capacity: a policy analysis perspective on hydropower sector in
Nicaragua. Co-Supervisor of one MSc. Student within collaboration of CATIE and
University of Wageningen. Co-supervisor of three undergraduate students from Forest
Science of Polytechnique University of Madrid. Co-supervisor MSc Thesis student of
the Institute of Environmental Decisions- ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. Member of PhD
Committee of Chris Kuzdas (student at Institute for Sustainability of State University
of Arizona) on participatory scenario development for water governance in areas
vulenerable to current conflicts and to potential climate change. Lecturer: Land
Degradation inter-linkages with global environment; Importance of Hydrological
Services of Forest Ecosystem for adaptation to Climate Change; Policy for and
financing of Adaptation to Climate Change and Natural Resource Management;
Multilateral Environmental Convention and forest plantations.
 Reviewer in Peer-Review Journals: Ecological Economics.
Professional experience
Formulation of proposal “Strengthening capacity of indigenous territories of Mesoamerica
to negotiate sustainable REDD initiatives”, funded by Climate Works Foundation
(250,000US$).
 Scientific coordinator and author of the British Embassy-UNDP national study: “Perception
of climate change of the Costarican Population” as an input for the national communication
strategy on climate change.
 Co-organizer and member of the scientific committee of the First Latin American Seminar
on “Adaptation to Climate Change: the role of ecosystem services”, 2-5 November, 2008CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
 Coordinator of the Research Project “Avoiding conflicts over water resources in areas
vulnerable to climate change in Costa Rica”. Funded by the IUCN trust for Environmental
Policy innovation, the project focuses on the use of trandisciplinary science to accompany
definition of strategies based on participatory-built scenarios. Costa Rica 2010.
 Coordinator of the "Contributing to the Environmental Policy in Costa Rica: designing an
innovative scheme for Payment for Hydrological Ecosystem Services for the Hydroelectric
sector”. Funded by the IUCN trust for Environmental Policy innovation. Research
coordinator on cross scale analysis of hydrological ecosystem services and the institutional
design to support soil and water conservation practices in the Reventazon watershed as a
priority watershed for vulnerability condition and importance for hydropower production
(i.e. Reventazon) of Costa Rica. Costa Rica, 2007-2009.
 Coordinator of Policy Network Analysis research in two countries (Costa Rica and
Nicaragua). The study focuses on a cross-country comparison of multi-sectoral and multiscale policy-networks relevant for designing ecosystem-based adaptation policies. Costa
Rica and Nicaragua 2008-2009.
 Systematization of “Community based adaptation to climate variability and change in
agriculture and water resources in the dry tropics of Nicaragua: The Case of San Pedro del
Norte”. International study coordinated by Dutch NGO Both-Ends and aiming at
contributing to the international dialogue on community-based adaptation in developing
countries. Nicaragua. 2007.
 Researcher with CATIE Global Change Group in EU funded research and development
project “Tropical Forest Adaptation to Climate Change in Central America” (TroFCCA).
Identification and implementation of appropriate methodologies on forest ecosystem
services and climate change adaptation. Political and technical advisor. Costa Rica. 20052009.
 Consultant for Catie Global Change Group in EU funded research and development project
“Tropical Forest Adaptation to Climate Change in Central America”. Identification of
climate change impact on hydraulic forest ecosystem services at watershed level. Criteria for
identification of research areas in Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Costa Rica.2004.
 Consultant for the Global Water Partnership- Central America. Territorial water pollution,
poverty and impact assessment. Research methodology and results delivery at policy level
(National Environment Commission, Ministry of Health, National network for water and
sanitation). El Salvador. 2004.
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Consultant for the Italian cooperation funded program Antipoverty Partnership Initiative for
Central America (UNOPS/UNDP) in collaboration with the Tropical Agriculture Centre for
Research and teaching (CATIE). Scientific research on the relationship between water
pollution impact on health, water access and poverty in periurban-rural El Salvador. Costa
Rica. 2003-2004
 Coordination, research supervision and editing of the book “Towards risk management in
Morazán Department: basis for hazards and vulnerability assessment, eastern El Salvador”,
funded by the Italian cooperation Antipoverty Partnership Initiative for Central America
(UNOPS-UNDP) in the framework of the EU-DIPECHO project “Risk Management and
disaster preparedness in 15 municipalities of eastern El Salvador”. El Salvador. 2002.
 Coordination of the EU B7-6000 co-funded project “Soil and water conservation and
production diversification in four municipalities of Morazán department, El Salvador”. El
Salvador. 2002.
 In support to Local Economic Development Agency (LEDA) ADEL-Morazán, coordination
of the EU-DIPECHO project “Disaster prevention and preparedness in 15 municipalities of
eastern El Salvador”. El Salvador. January 2001-febbruary 2002.
 Identification and formulation of Disaster prevention and risk mitigation in three
departments of eastern El Salvador”. Funded by EU-DIPECHO III (500.000US$). El
Salvador. August, 2002.
 Identification and formulation of a B7-6000 EU project “Watershed rehabilitation and
management in the buffer area of the Pico Bonito National Park, Honduras”. Funded by EU
(800000 Euros) in 2003. Honduras. August 2000.
 Agroforestry expert for Italian NGO COSPE. Lempira Department, Honduras. AprilJune 2000.
 Technical Consultant UNEP GEF-STAP (Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel).
Support the organization of the workshop “GEF focal areas interlinkages with land
degradation” held in Bologna (June 14-16, 1999). Final report editing. University of
Bologna (Italy), Washington UNEP headquarter (USA) May-June 1999-2000
 Research scholarship with Instituto Agronómico Oltremare (IAO) of Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Support Italian delegation participation in Global Environment Facility:
technical support GEF Council 12 and 13. Formulation of the project “Technical and
financial tools to combat desertification”, funded by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
cooperation and implemented by IAO with UNCCD secretariat. World Bank headquarter,
Washington D.C. (USA), Florence (Italy) 1998-2000.
 Research scholarship with Applied Meteorology Foundation, Florence, Italy. Pollution
monitoring and impact evaluation on vegetation of Coastal national Park of San Rossore
through GIS. Florence, Italy. 1997
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Participation in international meetings
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UNCCD-COP 2 Dakar- Senegal; 1998
IUCN 12th Global Forum on Biodiversity. Dakar- Senegal. 1998.
Second Conference of the Iberoamerican Network of Climate Change Offices. Antigua,
Guatemala, October 2005.
Presentations on Regional Policy Network for adaptation to climate change and Forest
policy; Hydrological services of forest ecosystem and climate change adaptation. First
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Global Meeting of Tropical Forest and Adaptation to Climate Change, CIFOR, Bogor,
Indonesia, October 2005.
4th Scientific Wallace Conference “Environmental Services in Human-Dominated
Tropical Landscapes” held at CATIE in November 2005.
UNFCCC-COP11. Montreal-Canada; 2005.
IUFRO; Second Latin-American Congress on Forests; “Improving the dialogue between
forestry science and forest policy”. La Serena, Chile, October 2006.
Free University of Amsterdam 7th European conference on “Human Dimension of Global
Environmental Change”. Amsterdam, Holland, May 2007.
CIFOR West Africa “Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation into Environmental
Policy”, Burkina Faso, May, 2007.
Central American Integration System (SICA)-IUCN meeting of policy makers and
scientists of climate change. Preparatory phase of the Mesoamerican Presidential meeting
on climate change, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 28-29 may 2008.
International Seminar on “Adaptation to climate change, the role of ecosystem services”.
CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. 3-5 November, 2008.
International Congress on Forest and Adaptation to Climate Change”. Umea, Sweden,
May 2008.
Training courses
 Trandisciplinary case studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich),
Switzerland, April-June 2009.
 International course on “Policy network analysis”. University of Konstanz, Germany. 1-6
September 2008.
 International course on “Working effectively in the interface between forest policy and
forest science”. IUFRO, La Serena, Chile. 19-22 Octubre, 2006.
 Specialization course on food security: Economic and political analysis on food security,
Early Warning diagnostic analysis, production strategies, agriculture and domestic policy
analysis. Istituto Agronomico per l’Oltremare-Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Florence,
Italy.1999.
 Arcview-GIS course. Istituto Agronomico per l’Oltremare-Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Florence, Italy.1999.
 Specialization course on Cooperation and rural development. University of Padova, Italy.
1998
 Course on perspectives for development cooperation. Florence, Italy. 1992
Publications
 Vignola, R., 1997. “Vegetal Biomass and biodiversity encroachment in monsoon forest of
south India”. The work was presented at the congress “Tropical Botany research
perspective” of the Italian Botanical Society. Pisa, Italy.
 Griffith,M., Rossi, P., Vignola, R., 1999. “Report of the STAP expert group workshop on
land degradation”. GEF council 14 /Inf. 15. Official document GEF secretariat,
Washington
D.C.,
USA.
Available
at:
www.gefweb.org/COUNCIL/GEF_C14/gef_c14_inf15.doc
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 Vignola, R., 2004. Strengthening decisional tools for allocation of rural water for human
consumption
policy
priority.
MSc.
Thesis,
CATIE.
Available
at:
http://www.snet.gob.sv/informes.htm
 Vignola, R., 2002. “Towards risk management in Morazán Department: basis for hazards
and vulnerability assessment, eastern El Salvador”, Antipoverty Partnership Initiative for
Central America (Italian cooperation-UNOPS-UNDP). ISBN 99923-77-32-1; Re-edited.
San Salvador, El Salvador.
 Vignola, R., 2005. “A literature review on Forest and hydrological services: perspectives
for Climate Change Adaptation”. Tropical forest ecosystems and adaptation to climate
change,
EU
project
CIFOR/CATIE.
Available
at:
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/trofcca/america/docs/review_on_forest_and_hydrological_servi
ces.pdf.
 Perez, C.J., B. Locatelli, R. Vignola y P. Imbach. 2007. Integrar los bosques tropicales en
las políticas de adaptación al cambio climático. Ambientico No. 165: 19-21. Junio.
 Gonzalez C, Locatelli B, Imbach P, Vignola R, Perez C, Vaast P. 2007. Identificación de
bosques y sistemas agroforestales proveedores de servicios ecosistemicos para el sector agua
potable en Nicaragua. 51-52. Revista Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, CATIE, Turrialba,
Costa Rica
 Leguía, E., B. Locatelli, P. Imbach, F. Alpizar, R. Vignola y C. Pérez. 2007. Identificación
de bosques proveedores de servicios ecosistémicos para hidroelectricidad en Nicaragua.
Ambientico No. 165: 21-24
 Leguía, E., B. Locatelli, P. Imbach, C. Pérez, R. Vignola. 2008. “Bosques Tropicales y
Hidroenergia”, Ecosistemas 17(1).
 Perez, C.J., B. Locatelli, R. Vignola y P. Imbach. 2007. Importancia de los bosques
tropicales en las políticas de adaptación al cambio climático. Revista Recursos Naturales y
Medio Ambiente, 51-52, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
 Perez CJ., Vignola R, Perez H. 2007. “Community based adaptation to climate variability
and change in agriculture and water resources in the dry tropics of Nicaragua: the Case of San
Pedro
del
Norte”.
Available
online
at:
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/trofcca/_ref/america/docs.htm
 Diaz Briones AA, Locatelli B, Pérez C, Vignola R, Prins C. 2008. Evolución de
instituciones adaptativas frente a problemas hidrológicos en dos cuencas de Costa Rica.
Revista Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. In press.
 Contributor to the book: Locatelli B, Kanninen M, Brockhaus M, Colfer CJ, Murdiyarso
D, Santoso H. 2008. Facing an uncertain future: how forest and people can adapt to climate
change. CIFOR publication No. 5, Bogor, Indonesia.
 Vignola R., Marchamalo M, Kollner T. Otto S. 2009. “Modelling upstream land use
scenarios and their benefits for hydropower production in Birris watershed, Costa Rica:
deterministic or heuristic approach for climate change adaptation?” Proceedings of the
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seminar on Modeling in Agroforestry Systems, CIRAD-CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica,
February, 2008.
 Anders Malmer, David Scott, Xu Jianchu, Raffaele Vignola, Jonas Ardö, 2010. Forest
cover in global water governance. In Mery, G., Katila, P., Galloway, G., Alfaro, R.I.,
Kanninen, M., Lobovikov, M., Varjo, J., 2010. IUFRO book “"Forests and Society Responding to Global Drivers of Change"”; IUFRO World Series No. 25. Vienna, Austria.
509p.
 Vignola, R., Locatelli, B., Imbach, P., Martinez, C., (Eds) 2009. proceedings of the
international Seminar on “Adaptation to Climate Change: the role of ecosystem services”, 2-5
November, 2008- CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
 Locatelli B, Vignola R. 2009. “Managing watershed services of tropical forests and
plantations: Can meta-analyses help?”. Forest Ecology and Management, 258 (9).
 Locatelli, B., Imbach, P., Vignola, R., Metzger, M.J., Leguia-Hidalgo, E., 2010.
Ecosystem
services
and
hydroelectricity
in
Central
America:
Modelling service flows with fuzzy logic and expert knowledge. Regional Environmental
Change, DOI 10.1007/s10113-010-0149-x.
 Vignola, R., Otarola, M., Marchamalo, M., Echeverria, J., 2010. Land use scenarios for
provision of ecosystem services to hydropower production: on-site and off-site benefits of
different soil conservation measures in the Birris watershed, Costa Rica. In UNDP book
“Regional report on Biodiversity and Ecosystems: why are they important for sustainable
development and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean”, to be presented at 2010
UNCBD-COP 10 in Japan.
 Vignola, R., Locatelli, B., Martinez, C., Imbach, P., 2009. Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to
Climate Change: what role for policy-makers, society and scientists?. Journal of Mitigation
and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change; DOI 10.1007/s11027-009-9193-6.
 Vignola R., McDaniels T.L., Scholz R.W., 2009. Decision-making of upstream farmers
for targeting policies on ecosystem services: cognitive and socio-economic variables for soil
regulation services in Costa Rica. Land Use Policy, doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.03.003.
 Vignola R., McDaniels T.L., Scholz R.W., 2009. Governance across-scales: regulatory
mismatches and the role of boundary organizations for soil regulation-services under climate
change in Costa Rica. Submitted to Global Environmental Change.
 Vignola R., McDaniels T.L., Scholz R.W., 2009. Negotiation analysis for mechanisms to
deliver ecosystem services: a value-focused bargaining structure to achieve joint gains. In
revision in Ecological Economics.
 Vignola, R., 2010. A review of Studies and initiatives on climate change adaptation in
Central America. Internal report for CATIE-Conservation International (headquarter in DC)
collaborative agreement.
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 Marchamalo, M., Vignola, R., Gomez-Delgado, F.,Gonzalez-Rodrigo, B., in press.
Identifying soil conservation priority areas for reducing sedimentation and imprving wáter
quality. In Rapidel, B., LeClerc, F., Eds. Ecosystem services from agriculture and
agroforestry: measurement and payment. Earthscan, publishing.
Presentations in congresses and seminars
National Study on the Perception and Attitudes of Costarrican Population on Climate
Change” Report published by Peace With Nature Initiative presented in several media: Tico
Times, high-policy event at Presidential House (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5521245),
Radio Monumental (Amelia Rueda radio program, most heard in Costa Rica) and Radio U,
Costa Rica, 2010.
 McDaniels T., Vignola R. 2008. Climate adaptation decisions in environmental contexts:
Seeking robust alternatives and building institutional mechanisms. Presentation at the
Annual meeting of the Climate Decision-making Centre, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, May 2008, USA.
 Brockhaus M, Vignola R, Santoso H, Sanchez P, Siagian Y, Lasco R. 2008. Tropical
Forests and adaptation to climate change: the TroFCCA policy research framework on
actors, decision-making and policy networks. Proceedings of the Climate Change Adaptation
in Forest Management IUFRO/FAO/SLU Congress, a review of science, policies and
practices. 25-28 August, Umea, Sweden.
 Vignola R. Financing Adaptation to climate change: challenges and windows of
opportunities. International Seminar on “Adaptation to climate change, the role of ecosystem
services”-SIAASE, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. 3-5 November, 2008
 Vignola R. Servicios hidrológicos para la producción de energía hidroeléctrica en el
contexto del uso del suelo y el cambio climático: manejo de los ecosistemas en el marco de
una estrategia de adaptación en la cuenca Reventazón, Costa Rica. International Seminar on
“Adaptation to climate change, the role of ecosystem services”. CATIE, Turrialba, Costa
Rica. 3-5 November, 2008
 Vignola R, Martinez C, Locatelli B. 2008. Ecosystem Services and adaptation to climate
change: everyone plays a role. Latin American perspective. Poster presented at Forest day,
COP14, Poznan, Poland.
 Kollner T, Gret-Regamey A, Vignola R, Marchamalo M. 2008. Bayesian Modelling of
Ecosystem Services in Human-Environment Systems. Paper presented at the Conference on
Ecosystem Services: Using Science for Decision Making in Dynamic Systems, December
8-11, 2008, Naples, Florida, USA.
 Vignola R., Marchamalo M, Kollner T. Otto S. “Modelling upstream land use scenarios
and their benefits for hydropower production in Birris watershed, Costa Rica: deterministic
or heuristic approach for climate change adapation?” Presented at: Seminar on Modeling in
Agroforestry Systems, CIRAD-CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, February 2008.
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 Vignola, R., Brockhaus, M., Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: actors and
Policy Network Analysis, Presented at Adaptation Seminar, Annual Meeting CIFOR,
Indonesia, October, 2009.
Software skills
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MS Office
Geographical Information System ArcGIS
Programming software: Visual Basic.NET
Econometric and Statistics Software INFOSTAT, SAS, LIMDEP, SPSS; Bayesian
analysis: Hugin
Network analysis: UCINET, NetDraw, VISONE
Text analysis software AtlasTi
Dynamic System Modeling software STELLA
Languages
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Italian
Spanish
English
Portuguese
French
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References
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PhD Roland Scholz. Phd supervisor, Director Human and Environment System
department, Institute of Environmental Decisions, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. [email protected]; Phone: +41 44 632 58 91.
PhD Tim McDaniels. Professor of environmental policy at Isntitute for Environment,
Resources and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada; Climate DecisionMaking Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Email:
[email protected]; Phone: +11-604-822-9288.
PhD Stefanie Engel – Director Institute for Environmental Policy and Economics, Institute
of Environmental Decisions, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zurich,
Switzerland. [email protected]; Phone: +41 44 632 32 18.
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