Orcherton, Dr. Dan Frederick

Professor Orcherton is a Senior Research and Distance Education Scholar in the School of Science and Technology at the University of Fiji. Dan has a PhD (Doctor of Sciences) in Forestry from the University of Pinar del Rio in Western Cuba (specialization in Cultural Anthropology and Rural Sociology) and Magister Scientiae (MSc) in Agroforestry, with an emphasis in social gender studies and farming systems research from the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in Costa Rica. His undergraduate studies were at UofA (Alberta, Canada), and has taken graduate level courses at Universidad de La Molina (Lima, Peru). He is currently undertaking a Higher Doctor of Education (Distance Education). Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) and the Faculty of Graduate Studies) Athabasca University (Canada) (2022-2026). Dr. Dan has received a number of prestigious awards in the past 15 years namely: 2023/2024, Athabasca University (AU) Doctoral Level Student Bursary ($2500) (confirmed) Nov, 2023; 2022/2023 IDRC International Doctoral Research Awards (IDRC-IDRA) CAD 20,000; https://www.univcan.ca/programs-and-scholarships/idrc-international-doctoral-research-awards/2022-idra-recipients/ 2022 Laura Bassi Scholarship (Doctoral Research Dissertation Editing and Review Scholarship) Oct 2022-2023; 2016Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES)-Green Gown Award: United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC). http://www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk/gupes_green_gown_awards_2016_asia_and_the_pacif; 2003-2005 SSHRC (Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Canada) Doctoral Research Fellowship (CAD 37,333); 2003 Natural Resources Canada (Canadian Forest Service) Graduate Research Supplement (CAD 5,000); 2003 Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship (Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research) (CAD 4,322) and 2002-2003 IDRC- Doctoral Research Award. (International Development Research Center) (CAD 20,000).

As former Professor and Dean at UNRE in East New Britain (Papua New Guinea), he led an academic and Technical Working Groups and Research teams professionals in a $14 million (USD) Green Climate Fund (GCF) project in coordination with the Climate Change Development Authority (CCDA) in NCD (Port Moresby) in ENBP and New Ireland Provinces. He was also Senior Climate Change Advisor (Government of the Northwest Territories in Canada) Senior Administrative Officer (SAO) at Jean Marie River First Nations (NT) and Band Manager Leqámel First Nations in B. C’s Central Interior; where he oversaw research, Centre operations and led Human Resource Management and qualitative and quantitative research teams. Dan has many years of teaching (both face-to-face and on-line Distance and Flexible Learning-DFL), Project and Program Administration and Management, life-skills coach and mentor. He is passionate about climate change, traditional ecological knowledge, mixed agroforestry systems, rainforest and dryland forest conservation, reduction of desertification, protection of oceans and coastal ecosystems, urban-agriculture, biotechnology and renewable energy and tropical resource management. For the last 15 years, he has been working in the South Pacific (primarily in Fiji and Papua New Guinea) and is equipped with extensive project/programme management experience, climate change policy and practical knowledge and experience in environmental science and nature-based solutions (NbS) climate-smart ecosystem management.

Affiliation

School of Science & Technology, The University of Fiji, Saweni Campus, Lautoka, Fiji. Email: orchertonandsudario@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0859-2592

Book/Chapter Published

The Extent of Causality and Burden of Proof for Climate Related Intangible Loss Damage in At-Risk Settlements (Fiji Islands)

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