Bio

M.A. student at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability IRES UBC (2018-2020) interested in Biodiversity and Ecosystem-based Entrepreneurships and value chains aimed at conserving and sustainably managing tropical forests with rural communities. Former Amazon Regional Coordinator in the Forest and Climate Protection Program /REDD+ GIZ and Climate Policy Advisor to the FCO British Embassy in Colombia (2014-2018). Humboldt Climate Protection Fellow and Alumni at the Geomatics Lab Universitaet Humboldt zu Berlin and VRA at the Environmental Change Institute – Oxford University (2011-2013). Regional development planning researcher (M.Sc. UP Diliman Philippines and TU Dortmund Germany) and consultant in environmental and social conflict transformation (2003-2011).

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Seminars / Colloquiums

(2005) International Colloquium on Regional Development Planning (SPRING, Technische Universität Dortmund). Integrated Rural Development Planning in Conflict Affected Areas: The experience of Pikit, Mindanao (Philippines).

(2007) International Congress on Urban Development Planning and Conflict Management. SPRING TU Dortmund and University of Jakarta. Urban Planning and Peace-building in the suburbs of Medellín, Colombia.

(2009) International Cooperation Graduate Studies – Universidad Externado de Colombia, Faculty of Finances and International Relations. Lecture on German Technical Cooperation and German Development Cooperation Project Management Schemes.

(2010) ObservaTICS/Universidad Externado de Colombia – Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander (Joint Programme).Prospective Planning and ICTs/e-Government Solutions.

(2013) Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Research Group on Climate Hazards and Adaptation. Bearing the Unbearable: the use of public infrastructure to provide transitional shelter during erratic rainfalls and river-floods in Colombia.

Peña B. Luis Carlos, Melgarejo L.F, et al. (2016) Orientaciones para reducción de la deforestación y degradación de los bosques: Ejemplo de utilización de estudios de motores de deforestación en la planeación territorial para la Amazonía Colombiana. Bogotá. https://www.sinchi.org.co/orientaciones-para-reduccion-de-la-deforestacion-y-degradacion-de-los-bosques

Melgarejo, L.F., Lakes, Tobia (2013) Urban adaptation planning and climate-related disasters: an integrative assessment of infrastructure serving as temporary shelter during river floods in Colombia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction IJDRR. London. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420914000417.

Melgarejo, L.F. (2007) Guía para incorporar los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio en Planes de Desarrollo Municipal. Bogotá. GTZ Programa PRODESPAZ.

Ospina, A. y Melgarejo, L.F. (2009) Caja de Herramientas para incorporar los Objetivos del Milenio en Planes de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial: Experiencia de Boyacá Responsable. Bogotá. GTZ Programa CERCAPAZ.

Rottman, Helen y Melgarejo, L.F. (2009) Herramientas para el manejo alternativo de Conflictos entre Ciudadanía, Alcaldías y Gobernaciones. Bogotá. GTZ Programa CERCAPAZ.

Several Authors (Melgarejo, L.F.) 2010 Metodologías para facilitar procesos de constitución de Territorios Socialmente Responsables. Bogotá. GTZ Programa CERCAPAZ.

Melgarejo, L.F. (2005) Information and Communications Technologies in Integrated Rural Development Projects of Conflict Affected Areas of Pikit, Philippines: Measurement Techniques of Social Entropy. UP Diliman SURP. Manila.