Meredith Martin

Indigenous people around the world developed complex systems for forest management that were often invisible to the Western/scientific lens. This presentation will highlight a form of indigenous agroforestry used by Dayak peoples in Indonesia called tembawang, and in doing so, will explore both the ways in which indigenous management has been historically overlooked, and ways in which we can learn from these highly sophisticated management systems.

Speaker Biography

Meredith Martin - Assistant Professor, College of Natural Resources, NC State University

Meredith Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. Her research is focused on forest ecology and silviculture of both timber and non-timber forest products around the world in temperate, subtropical, tropical and urban environments. Dr. Martin holds a PhD and MFS from the Yale School of the Environment in Forest Ecology and Silviculture, and a BA from Columbia University in Environmental Biology. Prior to joining NC State, Dr. Martin worked as a postdoctoral associate with Yale and The Nature Conservancy studying tropical restoration and reforestation