John-Rob Pool

Research Analyst, Natural Infrastructure Initiative

Bio

John-Rob is a Research Analyst on the Natural Infrastructure Initiative in WRI’s Water Program, where he works to scale up smart and cost-effective natural infrastructure strategies, such as landscape restoration, conservation and sustainable management, which support rural communities and enable sustainable development in an increasingly urbanizing world. He works to empower governments, businesses, utilities, and communities to enhance their sustainability efforts by investing in natural infrastructure, like forests and wetlands, as part of a portfolio of smart solutions to growing global environmental challenges.

Previously, John-Rob worked with WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative, where he supported strategy and management of the program, contributing to partner coordination, fundraising, donor reporting, country-level project management and associated research and analysis. He supported the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), a pan-African, country-led initiative to bring 100 million hectares of degraded land into restoration by 2030 and capture associated benefits for food and water security, poverty alleviation, and climate change resilience, and led strategic engagement of the Global Restoration Council, a high-level body of restoration champions, which aims to harness the collective wisdom, influence and energy of its members to catalyze and sustain a global movement for restoration.

John-Rob holds a Master of Science in Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford, where he was a student of St Edmund Hall. In addition, he has a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Biodiversity and Conservation, both from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.

John-Rob is originally from Botswana, and outside of work enjoys travelling, reading, cooking, politics, tennis, swimming, and most other sports. Most of all he enjoys being outdoors and in nature.

Blog Posts

45 Cities Pursue a New Urban Strategy: Protecting Forests Near and Far
by John-Rob Pool, Frances Seymour, Todd Gartner and Mariana Campos - September 12, 2018
Most people don’t associate cities with trees, but urban areas are actually dependent on healthy forests. A new initiative helps cities protect trees—both those within city boundaries and others hundreds or even thousands of miles away.
Radio Helps Niger Farmers Bring Life Back to Their Land
by Lucas Toh, Salima Mahamoudou and John-Rob Pool - August 07, 2018
Nigerien farmers struggle with land degradation. Now, they're tuning in to a new radio program for tips on restoring their fields.
Once Degraded, West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest Is Restored to Glory
by Sabin Ray and John-Rob Pool - July 24, 2018
WRI experts take a field trip to learn from the US Forest Service, learning three lessons for the global restoration movement: support biodiversity, spread the wealth locally and be adaptable.
We Discovered 1.8 Million Square Miles of Forest in the Desert
by Fred Stolle and John-Rob Pool - May 19, 2017
Thanks to high-resolution satellite images, researchers discovered the equivalent of another Amazon rainforest in the world's deserts and drylands.
Rising Carbon Emissions from Warming Soil Highlight Benefits of Land Restoration
by John-Rob Pool and Robert Winterbottom - January 09, 2017
New research explores a vicious cycle: as greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet, soils heat up and the micro-organisms that live in them start to expel heat-trapping carbon dioxide, reinforcing the problem of climate change. Landscape restoration is one way to respond.

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45 Cities Pursue a New Urban Strategy: Protecting Forests Near and Far

Radio Helps Niger Farmers Bring Life Back to Their Land

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We Discovered 1.8 Million Square Miles of Forest in the Desert

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We Discovered 1.8 Million Square Miles of Forest in the Desert

Rising Carbon Emissions from Warming Soil Highlight Benefits of Land Restoration

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