Zsolt Molnár - Biography#

Zsolt Molnár is a botanist and ethnoecologist, leader of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Research Group at the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary, and key person in the global indigeneous and local knowledge (ILK) researches. He strives to understand how traditional herding and farming communities shape their landscapes, and manage their natural resources. He has special interest in ecological knowledge behind local land-use practices; ecological aspects of local worldviews, and local conceptualizations of nature and its elements. He has been exploring the role knowledge co-production with locals can play in improving nature conservation management. He works in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Mongolia, Iran and Kenya. He is a member of the IPBES Indigenous and Local Knowledge Task Force and a coordinating lead author of the IPBES Global Assessment. GoogleSholar citations: 10886, H-index: 43.