Grace B. Villamor is a Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader for Economy and Society at Scion. Her research interests include understanding human decision making and behaviour of land managers under different internal and external factors (e.g., climate change, market, and social characteristics such as gender) using participatory approaches and its interactions with biophysical models.

Grace has developed role-playing games (such as Grazing and Flood risk games) as decision and negotiation support tools for local farmers and decision makers which are currently used as teaching tools in several universities. Her current research at Scion is focused on managing risks and uncertainty for Resilient Forests, developing integrated assessment tools for understanding the waterflows in plantation forests and assessing socio-economic impacts of forest-based biofuels in New Zealand.

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