The 6th Studium Generale in Landscape Architecture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB

In order to enhance an international atmosphere in the lecture program, in every semester Department of Landscape Architecture conducts a special lecture, which is called “studium generale”. In the 6th Studium Generale, this semester Department of Landscape Architecture invited a speaker, Dr. Fred STOLLE. He is come from World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington DC, USA. Prof. Dr. Hadi Susilo Arifin, as a Chairman of Landscape Architecture Department asked and invited him to come to IPB when they were attending Asia Pacific Forestry Week FAO in Hanoi, Vietnam (21-26 April 2008) and the Coordinator Meeting of Agroforestry Landscape Analysis ICRAF/SIDA/ SEANAFE in Hanoi, Vietnam (28-30 April 2008).

The studium generale  was held on Tuesday/May 6, 2007, from 13.30 to 16.00 in Ruang Sidang Arsitektur Lanskap, Jl. Meranti, Kampus IPB Darmaga, Bogor, with the topic: “Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System Based for Landscape Resources Management”. This program was attended by 10 faculty members of Landscape Architecture Department and 78 students of IPB Graduate School, i.e. from study programs of landscape architecture, agronomy, natural resources & environmental management, regional planning, entomology, forestry, marine science, aquaculture, veterinary, computer science, agriculture technology, etc.), and Bachelor program. In the last 40 minutes of studium generale, Prof. Hadi Susilo Arifin as moderator gave opportunities for all enthusiasm participants to take discussion.

About Dr. Fred Stolle, he holds a M.Sc. in Landscape ecology (ITC) and a Ph.D. in Geography (Wageningen Universitet). Stolle is program manager for WRI’s Forest Landscape Objective, working on forest governance, forest changes, and their impacts on climate change, and biofuels issues in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia. He started as a Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote sensing specialist at ITC (Netherlands), UNEP (Nairobi) and UNESCO (Jakarta). He lived 2-years in Kenya where he was team-leader for the production of a coastal Atlas for Kenya, and lived for 4 years in Indonesia working on forests and land-use change issues. Since 2003 he works at WRI where his focus is on the development in Southeast Asia (focus on Indonesia) of a decision-making environment where reliable, accurate and current information on forest and timber resources and related decisions are continuously and publicly available (Transparency) and that actions by the government are taken based on this information. Recently, he is also involved in advising the Indonesian government on the inclusion of reduced deforestation programs in the UN Climate framework (UNFCCC). In addition Fred is involved in several international processes in Asia as the Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) initiative, the Asian Forest Partnership (AFP), the Roundtable of Sustainable Oil palm, and the world-wide UN FAO Forest Resources Assessment. (Sumber : HSA)