Assoc. Prof. Dr. Prasit Wangpakapattawong, Ph.D.

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Prasit Wangpakapattawong, Ph.D.
Project Co-Ordinator, Research Advisor & Head of Doi Suthep Nature Study Centre

Prasit is an associate professor in biology at Chiang Mai University. He has played major roles in several of FORRU-CMU's international research projects, including FORRU’s work on Doi Mae Salong with FAO (on accelerated natural regeneration) and with World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) ("Making the Mekong Connect Project"). His latest role, starting in 2021 for the next three years, is the CMU project coordinator of an ERAMUS-funded FRAME project - developing higher education curricula on forest restoration . His specialties include carbon accounting and ethnoecology and he supervises several research students, working at FORRU-CMU's nurseries and field plots.

Key publications:

  1. Thongkumkoon P, Chomdej S, Kampuansai J, Pradit W, Waikham P, Elliott S, Chairuangsri S, Shannon D.P, Wangpakapattanawong P and Liu A. (2019). Genetic assessment of three Fagaceae species in forest restoration trials. PeerJ, 7, e6958.
  2. van Noordwijk M, Ekadinata A, Leimona B, Catacutan D, Martini E, Tata HL, Öborn I, Hairiah K, Wangpakapattanawong P, Mulia R, Dewi S, Rahayu S, Zulkarnain MT. 2020. Agroforestry options for degraded landscapes in Southeast Asia. In: JC Dagar, SR Gupta and Demel Teketay (Eds.) Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes: Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges. Springer, Singapore. ISBN:978-981-15-4135-3.
  3. Wangpakapattanawong, P., P. Tiansawat & A. Sharp, 2016. Forest restoration at the landscape level in Thailand. Pp 149-166, in Appanah, S. (ed.), Forest Landscape Restoration in Asia-Pacific Forests. FAO/RECOCTC. Bangkok. Thailand.

Email: prasit.wang@cmu.ac.th