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Speakers

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SPEAKERS

George Mitri

Associate Professor, Director, Land and Natural Resources program, Institute of the Environment, University of Balamand, Tripoli, Lebanon

Biography

George Mitri is an associate professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and director of the Land and Natural Resources Program at the Institute of the Environment, University of Balamand, Lebanon. George holds a PhD in environmental bio-monitoring from the University of Trieste, Italy. He has more than 18 years of research experience in the field of environmental sciences. His research interests lie in the area of earth observation and geo-Information analysis and their applications in landcover/land-use mapping and monitoring, wildfire risk assessment and management, drought and land degradation assessment, and impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems. Dr. Mitri has been leading various research and development projects funded by national and international organizations. In 2008, he coordinated the development of Lebanon’s national strategy for forest fire management. Most recently, he co-authored Lebanon’s National Strategy for Air Quality Management. He has more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Dr. Mitri is a certified expert reviewer of National Inventories Reports in the Land Use, Land Use Change and the Forestry sector under the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol, and member of several national and international committees and groups including the European Expert Group on Forest Fires.