| Expert Name | Mr. Amado Luis Palma Torres |
| Title | Main specialist |
| Division | Environmental Management |
| Institution | Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment |
| City | La Habana |
| Country | Cuba |
| Telephone | 53 031 371 224 / 349 573 |
| Email | palma(at)citma.ltunas.inf.cu |
| Work Experience | -Coordinator of 4 projects: territorial approach linked to t he evaluation of the effects of the reforestation on some environmental variables like soils, climate, vegetation and fauna; the use of remote censors in the evaluation of environmental impacts in coastal ecosystems and in hydrographic basins
-Coordinator in international projects dealing with the evaluation of methodologies of participate diagnose with FAO financing and which is linked to the integrated handling of natural resources etc.
-Participant in the realization of diagnosis and classification of 8 basins in the oriental region of Cuba
-Participant in a project: Community rural development with the introduction of agro-silvo-pastoril technologies, minimum crop handling and other agroecological technologies |
| Qualifications | -engineer forest, Pinar del Rio University |
| Number of Publications | 11 |
| Awards | -More outstanding worker in the Ministry of Science Technology and Environment at Las Tunas province,
-National Outstanding worker, 2001 |
| Other Activities | -Coordinator of the program of National Action of Fight against Desertification and Drought in Las Tunas province
-Classification and handling of forest resources in hydrographic basins
-Development of technologies of sustainable forest handling
-Evaluation in situ of fitogenetic resources
-Qualititve evaluation of amendments and technologies in degraded soils |
| Publications | -Evaluation of the Albizzia procera in the recuperation of degraded soils” summary book of the V congress of Soil Sciences in Cuba and XV Latin-American Congress of soil sciences, vol. No 1 44 pp, Cuba, 2001
-“Diagnose of the processes of desertification and drought in las Tunas region” summary book of the V congress of Soil Sciences in Cuba and XV Latin-American Congress of soil sciences, vol. No 1 56 pp, Cuba, 2001
-“Evaluation of the processes of salinity of the soil coastal ecosystyms with the use of the teledictation.” Summary Book of the III International Symposium of Humid soils, vol 1, 64 pp, Cuba
-“Evaluation of the effects of the reforestation on some environmental variables at Manatí Municipality.”
-“Planning of the use of the Heart in an area steers of the cautious in the Western region of Cuba.” summary book of the IV Latin-American Congress of Sustainable Development, vol. No 1 32 pp, Panama City, 2001 |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
| Last updated | 27/07/2011 14:40:00 |