Short Bio

Thorunn Wolfram Petursdottir is a restoration ecologist, emphasising the use of transdisciplinary approaches in natural resource management. She is leading the development of the Centre for Ecosystem Restoration and Resilience-based Management, run by the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland. Her research focuses on analysing the social-ecological reasons for ecosystem degradation, the design of large-scale restoration projects/programmes, monitoring and evaluating their long-term impacts and how to embed ecosystem restoration into resilience-based management of natural resources. Dr. Petursdottir is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Ecological Restoration Int and currently involved in a couple of national and European research and network programmes.