Prof. Dr. Benno Pokorny

Tel.  +49  761 203 3680
Fax. +49  761 203 3781

Routineaufgaben

• Ecosystem Management (M.Sc. MEG / Forest Sciences / GEO -compulsory module (2nd semester)
  

• Carbon Forestry (MSc. Forstwissenschaften / Forest Sciences)

• International Forest Governance (MSc. Forstwissenschaften / Forest Sciences)

• Plantation Forestry (MSc. Forstwissenschaften / Forest Sciences)

    

Veröffentichungen 

2021

Pokorny B., Robiglio V., Reyes, M., Vargas R., Patin᷉a C., Cesar F. (2021): The potential of agroforestry concessions to stabilize Amazonian forest frontiers: a case study on the economic and environmental robustness of informally settled small-scale cocoa farmers in Peru. Land Use Policy, 102,  105242.

2018

De Jong, W., Pokorny, B., Katila, P. Galloway G. And Pacheco, P. (2018): Community forestry and the Sustainable Development Goals: A two way street. Forests, 9/6, 331.

2017

Katila, P., de Jong, W., Galloway, G., Pokorny, B. and Pacheco, P.  (2017): Building on synergies: Harnessing community and smallholder forestry for Sustainable Development Goals. Policy Brief. IUFRO, Vienna. 24p.

Tourinho, M.M., Pokorny, B., Melo Júnior, L.C.M., Santos, S.R.M. and Gama, J.RV. (2017): Traditional knowledge as an ethical fundamental for the conservation of biodiversity in the floodplains of the Amazon. Novos Cadernos NAEA 20(1), 153-168.

2016

Kleinschmit, D., Mansourian, S., Wildburger, C., Boekhout Van Solinge, T., Cashore, B., Cerutti, P.O., Gan, J., Leipold, S., Pacheco, P., Pokorny, B., PURRET, A., SOTIROV, M. And TACCONI, L. (2016): Conclusions. In: Kleinschmit, D., Mansourian, S., Wildburger, C. And Purret, A. (Eds.). Illegal logging and related timber trade – dimensions, drivers, impacts and responses. A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series Volume 35. Vienna. Chapter 8, 133-136.

Pacheco, P., Cerutti, P.O., Edwards, P.D., Lescuyer, G., Mejía, E., Navarro, G., Obidzinski, K., Pokorny, B. And Sist, P. (2016): Multiple and intertwined impacts of illegal forest activities. In: Kleinschmit, D., Mansourian, S., Wildburger, C. and Purret, A. (eds.). Illegal logging and related timber trade – dimensions, drivers, impacts and responses. A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series Volume 35. Vienna. Chapter 6, 99- 116.

Perozo, D., Pokorny, B., Nieto Caraveo, L., Schlueter, S. (2016): Analysis of endogenous development as a proposal for rural development in Northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Potentials and limitations. Proceedings ESADR 2016, P05 Transformações sociotécnicas na agricultura familiar: potencialidades e limites na construção de novos projetos de desenvolvimento rural. 1479-1498.

Pokorny, B. (2016): Securing local livelihoods depending on forest commons: The case of the ‘Forest Government’ of the State of Acre in the Western Brazilian Amazon. In: FAO 2016. Governing Tenure Rights to Commons. A guide to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. Governance of tenure technical guide 8, FAO, Rome, Case 7, p. 57.

Pokorny, B., Pacheco, P., Cerutti, O.P., Boekhout Van Solinge, T., Kissinger, G. And Tacconi, L. (2016): Drivers of illegal and destructive forest use. In: Kleinschmit, D., Mansourian, S., Wildburger, C. and Purret, A. (eds.). Illegal logging and related timber trade – dimensions, drivers, impacts and responses. A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series Volume 35. Vienna. Chapter 4, 61-78.

2015

Bharat, K., Schmerbeck, J. , Pokorny, B. (2015): Difference in value of selected ecosystem services from native shola forest and exotic tree plantations in the upper Palni hills of south India. In: Naudiyal, N. and Schmerbeck,J (eds). Land-use related biodiversity in India: Seminar Proceedings 2014. Department of Natural Resources, TERI University, 23-27. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1856.5200.

Medina, G., Almeida, C., Novaes, E., Godar, J., Pokorny, B. (2015): Development conditions for family farming: Lessons from Brazil. World Development, 74, 386–396.

Medina, G., Potter, C., Pokorny. B. (2015): Farm business pathways under agri-environmental policies: Lessons for policy design. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, Rio de Janeiro, 23(1), 5-30.

Osei-Tutu, P., Pregernig, M., Pokorny, B. (2015): Interactions between formal and informal institutions in community, private and state forest contexts in Ghana. Forest Policy and Economics 54: (2015) 26-35.   http://dx.doi.org/

Pokorny, B. (2015): Forest certification. Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox. FAO, Rome. http://www.fao.org

Pokorny, B. (2015): Forest finance Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox. FAO, Rome. http://www.fao.org

Pokorny, B. (2015): German bilateral development cooperation in the forest sector: A critical reflection based on the analysis of forest-related development initiatives from Indonesia, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Report. University of Freiburg. http://dx.doi.org

Pokorny, B., De Jong, W. (2015): Smallholders and forest landscape transitions: locally devised development strategies of the tropical Americas. International Forestry Review Vol. 17(S1), 1-19.

Pokorny, B., De Jong, W., Pottinger, A. (2015): Special Issue: Smallholders and forest landscape transitions: Locally devised development strategies of the tropical Americas. International Forestry Review, 17 (S1), 142p.

Pokorny, B., Serra, A. (2015): La capacidad de usuarios de la tierra a lo largo de la Transamazónica Brasilera del Estado de Pará a contribuir a un desarrollo sostenible de la región. In: Aguirre Mejia, P. (ed.). Sustentabilidad: Principios y prácticas. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen, Vol.1, 115-126.

Pokorny, B., Serra, A. (2015): Melhorias nas experiências produtivas: lições aprendidas. In: Medina, G.; Barbosa C. W. S. (eds.) Experiências produtivas de agricultores familiares da Amazônia (2nd ed.. Kelps). Goiânia, 153-178.

Pokorny, B., Serra, A. (2015): Melhorias nas Experiencias Produtivas: Licoes Aprendidas. In: Experiências produtivas de agricultores familiares da Amazônia. Gabriel Medina e Cláudio Wilson Soares Barbosa (Editores). Goiânia: Kelps, 198 p. il. Segunda edição.     ISBN: 978-85-400-1211-0


2014

Billard, C., Gond, V., Oszwald, J., Arnaud De Sartre, X. Pokorny, B. (2014): Smallholders’ agricultural practices trajectories in Amazonia. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques, 319/1, 53-64.

Del Gatto, F., Pokorny, B. (2014): FLEGT VPA and REDD+ and community tenure rights in Honduras. ETFRN News 55. Linking FLEGT and REDD+ to Improve Forest Governance. Challenges and opportunities for improved forest management, Tropenbos International, Wageningen, 101-108.

Medina, G., Pokorny, B. (2014): Avaliação financeira do manejo florestal comunitário. Kelps, Goiánia, Brazil. 216p. ISBN 978-85-8106-493-2

Osei-Tutu, P., Pregernig, M., Pokorny, B. (2014): Legitimacy of informal institutions in contemporary local forest management: insights from Ghana. Biodiversity Conservation, 23, 3587–3605. DOI 10.1007/s10531-014-0801-8

Pokorny, B. (2014): Amazon development. In: Krieger, J. (ed). The Oxford companion to international relations. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-19-973887-8

Pokorny, B. (2014): Unintended effects of international forest initiatives at the local level. ETFRN News 55. Linking FLEGT and REDD+ to Improve Forest Governance. Challenges and opportunities for improved forest management. Tropenbos International, Wageningen, 93-100.

Pokorny, B., Godar, J., Hoch, L., Johnson, J., De Koning, J., Medina, G., Steinbrenner, R., Vos, V., Weigelt, J. (2014): A produção familiar como alternativa de desenvolvimento sustentável para a Amazônia. Lições aprendidas de iniciativas de uso florestal por produtores familiares na Amazônia boliviana, brasileira, equatoriana e peruana. 2nd edition. CIFOR, Bogor. Kelps, Goiánia, Brazil, 174p.
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Pokorny, B., Pacheco, P. (2014): Money from and for forests: A critical reflection on the feasibility of market approaches for the conservation of Amazonian forests. Journal of Rural Studies, 36, 441-452.

2013

Pokorny, B., Scholz, I. and de Jong, W. 2013. REDD+ for the poor or the poor for REDD+? About the limitations of environmental policies in the Amazon and the potential of achieving environmental goals through pro-poor policies. Ecology and Society 18(2): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05458-180203

Pokorny B. 2013. Smallholders, forest management and rural development in the Amazon. Earthscan Forest Library/Routledge, Oxon. 212p.

Pokorny, B., De Jong, W., Godar, J., Pacheco, P., Johnson, J. (2013): From large to small: reorienting rural development policies in response to climate change, food security and poverty. Published online in: Forest Policy and Economics.     http://www.sciencedirect.com

2012

Godar, J., Tizado, E. J., Pokorny, B., Johnson, J. (2012): Typology and Characterization of Amazon Colonists: A Case Study Along the Transamazon Highway. Human Ecology, 40 (2): 251-267. :http://DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9457-8

Godar, J., Tizado, J., Pokorny, B. (2012): Who is responsible for deforestation in the Amazon? A spatially explicit analysis along the Transamazon Highway in Brazil. Forest, Ecology and Management, 267, 58-73.

Hoch, L., Pokorny. B., De Jong, W. (2012): Financial attractiveness of smallholder tree plantations in the Amazon: bridging external expectations and local realities. Agroforestry System.  DOI: 10.1007/s10457-012-9480-1 ISSN 0167-436.

Medina, G., Pokorny, B. (2012): Avaliação financeira do manejo florestal comunitário. Novos Cadernos NAEA, 14(2), 25-36.

Pokorny, B., Johnson, G., Medina, A., Hoch, L. (2012): Market-based conservation of the Amazonian forests: Revisiting win–win expectations. Geoforum 43 (3), 387-401.   doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.08.002

2011

De Jong, W., Borner, J., Pacheco, P., Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C. (2011): Los bosques amazónicos en la encrucijada: presiones, respuestas y desafíos. In: de Jong, W. and Mery, G. (eds.) 2011. Desafíos de los bosques amazónicos y oportunidades para el manejo forestal comunitario. Finnish Forest Research Institute, IUFRO Occasional Paper No. 25, 2-30.

De Jong, W., Pokorny, B., Cornejo, C., Stoian, D. (2011): Oportunidades y desafíos para el manejo forestal comunitario: lecciones de América Tropical. In: de Jong, W. and Mery, G. (eds.) 2011. Desafíos de los bosques amazónicos y oportunidades para el manejo forestal comunitario. Finnish Forest Research Institute, IUFRO Occasional Paper No. 25, Finland. 31-55.

Herrero-Jàuregui, C., Pokorny, B., Casado, M. A. (2011):  Coming down to Earth: a critical analysis of a project for the commercialization of non-timber forest products in a community of the Eastern Amazon. Brazilian Journal of Forestry Research, 31/66,  131 – 142.

Pokorny,  B., Godar,  J., Hoch, L., Johnson, J., De Koning, J., Medina, G., Steinbrenner, R., Vos, V.,Weigelt,  J. (2011): La producción familiar como alternativa de un desarrollo sostenible para la Amazonía: Lecciones aprendidas de iniciativas de uso forestal por productores familiares en la Amazonía boliviana, brasilera, ecuatoriana y peruana. CIFOR, Bogor. 178p.             

2010

De Jong, W., Cornejo, C., Pacheco, P., Pokorny, B., Stoian, D. (2010): Opportunities and challenges for community forestry: Lessons from tropical America. In.: Mery G.; Katila, P.; Galloway, G.; Alfaro, R.I.; Kanninen, M.; Lobovikov, M.; Varjo, J.; (eds.). Forests and society – responding to global drivers of change. IUFRO World Series, 25, 299-314.

Meza, V., Navarro, G. , Pokorny, B. (2010): Percepción y decisión económica de productores locales: el rol del pago por servicios ambientales para dos tipos de bosque en la región Huetar norte, Costa Rica”.  Ambientales,  40, 44-54.

 
Pokorny, B. Sabogal, C., de Jong, W., Pacheco, P., Porro, B., Louman, D., Stoian, D. (2010):  Challenges of community forestry in tropical America.  Bois et Forêts des Tropiques, 303 (1), 43-66.

2009

Hoch, L., Pokorny, B.,  De Jong, W. (2009): How successful is tree growing for smallholders in the Amazon? International Forestry Review, 11(3), 299-310.

Medina, G., Pokorny, B., Campbell, B.M. (2009): Community forest management for timber extraction in the Amazon frontier. International Forestry Review, 11(3), 408-420.

Medina, G., Pokorny, B., Weigelt, J. (2009): The power of discourse: Hard lessons for traditional forest communities in the Amazon. Forest Policy and Economics, 11, 392–397.

Olegário, J. P. C., Silva, J. N. M., Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., Zweede, J. (2009): Systems for Sustainable Forest Management. Tropical Forest Update 18(4), 9-11.

2008

De Jong, W. , Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., Louman, B., Stoian, D. (2008): Antecedentes, realidad y oportunidades del manejo forestal comunitario en América Latina. - In: Sabogal C., De Jong, W., Pokorny, B.,  Louman, B., (ed.):  Manejo forestal comunitario en América Latina. Experiencias, lecciones aprendidas y retos para el futuro; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, 35-76.

Medina, G., Pokorny, B. (2008): Avaliacao financeira do manejo florestal comuniário. Policy Brief. IBAMA/Universidad de Freiburg, 6 p.

Medina, G., Pokorny, B. (2008): O uso da floresta por comunidades amazônicas. Jornal do Brasil, Domingo.

Pokorny, B., Bauhus, J., Seebauer, M., Dai, C., Schmitt, J., Frei, H. J., Butler-Manning, D., Gärtner, S. (2008): Sustainable Forest Management in Western China: A manual for the Xiaolongshan Forest Burea. Ed.: Institute of Silviculture, Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences University of Freiburg, 98 p.

Pokorny, B., Johnson, B. (2008): Community forestry in the Amazon: The unsolved challenge of forests and the poor. ODI Natural Resource Perspectives, 112, 4 p.

Pokorny, B., Johnson, J., (2008): Estrategias de acompanamiento al manejo forestal comunitario. - In: Sabogal C., De Jong, W., Pokorny, B.,  Louman, B., (ed.) 2008. Manejo forestal comunitario en América Latina. Experiencias, lecciones aprendidas y retos para el futuro.  Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, 229 – 278.

Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., De Jong, W., Stoian, D., Louman, B., Pacheco, P., Porro,  N. (2008): Experiencias y retos del manejo forestal comunitario en América Tropical. Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, 54, 81-98.

Sabogal, C., De Jong, W., Pokorny, B., Louman, B. (2008): Síntesis y recomendaciones. In: In: Sabogal C., De Jong, W., Pokorny, B.,  Louman, B., (ed.):  Manejo forestal comunitario en América Latina. Experiencias, lecciones aprendidas y retos para el futuro. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, 279 – 294.

2007

Sabogal C., Lentini,  M., Pokorny, B., Silva, J. N. M., Zweede, J., Veríssimo, A. and Boscolo, M. (2006): Manejo Florestal Empresarial na Amazônia Brasileira. Restrições e Oportunidades. Relatório Síntese. Cifor, Imazon, Embrapa e IFT, Belém, 29 p.

Silva, N. J. M., Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., De Carvalho, J. O. P. and Zweede, J. (2006): Partnership for good forest management. A joint initiative of researchers and timber industries in the Brazilian Amazon. Tropical Forest Update, 4, 10-13.

2005

Pokorny, B.; Cayres, G., Nunes, W. (2005): Improving collaboration between outsiders and communities in the Amazon. In: Colfer C. (ed.). The Equitable Forest:  Diversity, Community and Resource Management. (229-241). Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington DC.

2004

Pokorny B., C. Sabogal C., J.N.M. Silva, J. Lima and P. Bernardo. 2004. C&I para el monitoreo de operaciones forestales. Un caso en Brasil. Revista Forestal Centroamericana.  ..abstract