Neil Powell
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Centre for Health and Sustainability
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 69
- E-mail:
- neil.powell@swedesd.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 14B, 1 tr
75237 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 69
- E-mail:
- neil.powell@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 69
- E-mail:
- neil.powell@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 69
- E-mail:
- neil.powell@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Neil has worked for 35 years as a pracademic with participatory action research and learning. He is passionate about co-creating equitable actions to address climate resilience, biodiversity, and water security in contested socio-ecological contexts. His projects and partnerships span Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, the Baltic Sea Region, and, most recently, Honduras. These have led to transformative insights and change processes to foster nature-based solutions for sustainable livelihoods.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Ecosystems and People, 2025
- DOI for Creating alternative future trajectories for carbon farming through a relational lens: pathways towards transformative social-ecological change in the European Union
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Part of Nature-Based Solutions, 2024
- DOI for Co-creating the design of equitable ecosystem restoration using the voluntary carbon market: six principles
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Part of Frontiers in Communication, 2024
- DOI for Analyzing environmental communication and citizen science in the context of environmental monitoring and assessment for Agenda 2030 in rural settings of Chile and Sweden
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Exploring co-creation labs: creative convergence at work
Part of Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, p. 2075-2090, 2024
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Knowledge co-production in the Helge a catchment: a comparative analysis
Part of Ecosystems and People, p. 565-582, 2022
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Ecosystems and People, 2025
- DOI for Creating alternative future trajectories for carbon farming through a relational lens: pathways towards transformative social-ecological change in the European Union
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Part of Nature-Based Solutions, 2024
- DOI for Co-creating the design of equitable ecosystem restoration using the voluntary carbon market: six principles
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Part of Frontiers in Communication, 2024
- DOI for Analyzing environmental communication and citizen science in the context of environmental monitoring and assessment for Agenda 2030 in rural settings of Chile and Sweden
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Exploring co-creation labs: creative convergence at work
Part of Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, p. 2075-2090, 2024
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Knowledge co-production in the Helge a catchment: a comparative analysis
Part of Ecosystems and People, p. 565-582, 2022
- DOI for Knowledge co-production in the Helge a catchment: a comparative analysis
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Health, sustainability and transformation: a new narrative for global health
Part of BMJ Global Health, 2022
- DOI for Health, sustainability and transformation: a new narrative for global health
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Crisis management: Regional approaches to geopolitical crises and natural hazards
Part of Geographical Research, p. 168-178, 2022
Part of Sustainability, 2021
- DOI for Citizen Science as Democratic Innovation That Renews Environmental Monitoring and Assessment for the Sustainable Development Goals in Rural Areas
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Part of Society & Natural Resources, p. 1075-1092, 2021
- DOI for Rethinking Decision Support Under Conditions of Irreducible Uncertainty: Co-Designing a Serious Game to Navigate Baltic Sea Nutrient Enrichment
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Policies for wetlands implementation in Denmark and Sweden - historical lessons and emerging issues
Part of Land use policy, 2021
Part of Water, 2017
- DOI for Water Security in Times of Climate Change and Intractability: Reconciling Conflict by Transforming Security Concerns into Equity Concerns
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Part of Water, 2016
- DOI for Learning for Transformation of Water Governance: Reflections on Design from the Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance (CADWAGO) Project
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Supporting Governance Institutions for Adaptive Capacity to Environmental Change
Part of APN Science Bulletin, p. 121-123, 2014
Part of Resilience, p. 135-150, 2014
- DOI for Meeting the 'Anthropocene' in the context of intractability and complexity: infusing resilience narratives with intersubjectivity
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Part of Environmental Education Research, p. 458-476, 2013
Part of Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, p. 71-90, 2013
Part of Development Policy Review, p. 757-776, 2013
Part of Environmental Science and Policy, p. 12-23, 2012
Part of Sustainable Development, p. 260-270, 2010
Part of Environmental Science and Policy, p. 551-563, 2007
Church forests in north Gonder administrative zone, northern Ethiopia
Part of Forests, Trees and Livelyhoods, p. 349-373, 2005
Church forests provide clues to restoring ecosystems in the degraded highlands of Northern Ethiopia
Part of Ecological Restoration, p. 131-132, 2005
Articles, review/survey
Books
Stakeholder agency in rural development policy: articulating co-governance in Vietnam
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), 2011
Chapters in book
Vatten, rättvisa och hållbar fred
Part of Krig/Fred, p. 91-106, Makadam Förlag, 2016
Part of Environmental Leadership, p. 539-548, Sage Publications Inc., 2012
Part of Climate Change Adaptation and International Development, p. 15, Routledge, 2010
The EU’s renewable energy dilemma
Part of Climate Challenge, p. 443-456, Forskningsrådet Formas, 2009
Part of El agua en Iberoamérica: Experiencia en Gestión y Valoración del Agua, p. 29-31, CYTED, 2004
Learning from participatory land management
Part of The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment, p. 42-55, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003
Conference papers
Part of Meeting global challenges in research cooperation, p. 229-239, 2009
Part of VIII ESA congress, 11-15 July 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark: European agriculture in a global context. Book of Proeedings, 2004
Re-conceptualising resilience for impact assessment in conditions of systemic uncertainty
Part of Environmental assessment in the Nordic countries: experience and prospects, p. 163-173, 2000