Harriet Bigas
Project Associate
- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-INWEH
- OFFICE:
- 175 Longwood Road South, Suite 204, Hamilton Ontario L8P 0A1 Canada
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- PHONE:
- +1 (905) 667-5485
- NATIONALITY:
- Canada
Education
B.A. (Hon.), M.A., McMaster University
Biographical Statement
Ms. Harriet Bigas is the Project Associate for the Drylands Programme at UNU-INWEH. Since joining UNU-INWEH in 2006, Ms. Bigas has been involved in the management of a global GEF project focusing on the development of a broad knowledge management system for tracking impacts across projects which combat land degradation through sustainable land management.
Ms. Bigas contributes to the implementation of drylands projects focusing on land degradation and desertification, alternative livelihoods, natural resources management, capacity development, and knowledge management systems. She is involved in the organisation of the Joint MSc Programme on Integrated Drylands Management. Ms. Bigas has played a key role in the organization of three major international conferences which aim to impact the science-policy dialogue, including the Joint International Conference on Desertification and the International Policy Imperative (2006) and the First UNCCD Scientific Conference on Understanding Desertification and Land Degradation Trends (2009), and has produced several publications on various drylands topics.
Ms. Bigas was born in Canada and completed both her undergraduate (B.A. Hon.) and graduate (M.A.) degrees at McMaster University.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Adeel, Zafar, Brigitte Schuster and Harriet Bigas (ed.), 2008. What Makes Traditional Technologies Tick? A Review of Traditional Approaches for Water Management in Drylands. UNU Desertification Series No. 8, United Nations University, Hamilton, Canada.
- Reed, M.S., M. Buenemann, J. Atlhopheng, M. Akhtar-Schuster, F. Bachmann, G. Bastin, H. Bigas, R. Chanda, A.J. Dougill, W. Essahli, L. Fleskens, N. Geeson, R. Hessel, J. Holden, A. Ioris, B. Kruger, H.P. Liniger, W. Mphinyane, D. Nainggolan, J. Perkins, C.M. Raymond, C. Ristema, G. Schwlich, R. Sebego, M. Seely, L.C. Stringer, R.J. Thomas, S. Twomlow and S. Verzandvoort, 2010. Cross-scale Monitoring and Assessment of Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management: A Methodological Framework for Knowledge Management. Land Degradation & Development 21, 261-271.
Technical Papers, Policy Briefs, etc
- Akhtar-Schuster, Mariam, Harriet Bigas and Richard Thomas (ed.), 2010. Monitoring and Assessment of Desertification and Land Degradation: Knowledge Management, Institutions and Economics. White Paper of the DSD Working Group 3. United Nations University, Hamilton, Canada.
- King, Caroline, Harriet Bigas and Zafar Adeel (ed.), 2007. Desertification and the International Policy Imperative – Proceedings of a Joint International Conference, Algiers (Algeria), 17 – 19 December 2006. UNU Desertification Series No. 7, United Nations University, Hamilton, Canada.
Other Publications (Conference Proceedings, etc)
- Bigas, Harriet Gudmundur Ingi Gudbrandsson, Luca Montanarella and Andres Arnalds (ed.), 2009. Proceedings of the International Forum Soils, Society and Global Change, 31 August – 4 September 2007, Selfoss, Iceland. European Communities, Italy.
- Bigas, Harriet, Zafar Adeel and Brigitte Schuster (ed.), 2009. Seeing Traditional Technologies in a New Light: Focus on Traditional Approaches for Water Management in Drylands. World Water Assessment Program, Insights, Side publications series. UNESCO, Paris, France.
