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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Analyzing environmental communication and citizen science in the context of environmental monitoring and assessment for Agenda 2030 in rural settings of Chile and Sweden (2024)
- Exploring co-creation labs (2024)
- Co-creating the design of equitable ecosystem restoration using the voluntary carbon market (2024)
- Knowledge co-production in the Helge a catchment (2022)
- Health, sustainability and transformation (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Analyzing environmental communication and citizen science in the context of environmental monitoring and assessment for Agenda 2030 in rural settings of Chile and Sweden (2024)
- Exploring co-creation labs (2024)
- Co-creating the design of equitable ecosystem restoration using the voluntary carbon market (2024)
- Knowledge co-production in the Helge a catchment (2022)
- Health, sustainability and transformation (2022)
- Crisis management: Regional approaches to geopolitical crises and natural hazards (2022)
- Citizen Science as Democratic Innovation That Renews Environmental Monitoring and Assessment for the Sustainable Development Goals in Rural Areas (2021)
- Policies for wetlands implementation in Denmark and Sweden - historical lessons and emerging issues (2021)
- Rethinking Decision Support Under Conditions of Irreducible Uncertainty (2021)
- Global Water Governance and Climate Change (2018)
- Water Security in Times of Climate Change and Intractability (2017)
- Learning for Transformation of Water Governance (2016)
- Supporting Governance Institutions for Adaptive Capacity to Environmental Change (2014)
- Meeting the 'Anthropocene' in the context of intractability and complexity (2014)
- Making Sense of Accountability in Baltic Agro-Environmental Governance (2013)
- Policy Coherence for Sustainable Agricultural Development (2013)
- Integrated water resource management (2013)
- A framework for facilitating dialogue between policy planners and local climate change adaptation professionals (2012)
- Approaches for understanding and embedding stakeholder realities in mangrove rehabilitation processes in Southeast Asia (2010)
- Combining social learning with agro-ecological research practice for more effective management of nitrate pollution (2007)
- Church forests provide clues to restoring ecosystems in the degraded highlands of Northern Ethiopia (2005)
- Church forests in north Gonder administrative zone, northern Ethiopia (2005)
Books
Chapters
- Vatten, rättvisa och hållbar fred (2016)
- Fostering Legitimacy in Agro-Environmental Governance (2012)
- Linking Policy Processes and Stakeholder Agencies to Coastal Change (2010)
- The EU’s renewable energy dilemma (2009)
- Análisis de los sistemas de cultivo para facilitar el aprendizaje social para la gestión integrada de las cuencas. Resultados de un caso de estudio sobre la lixiviacion de los nitratos (2004)
- Learning from participatory land management (2003)
Conferences
- Do Conservation and Intensification have their Limits? (2009)
- Cropping systems analysis to facilitate social learning for integrated catchment management. Results of a case study on nitrate leaching (2004)
- Re-conceptualising resilience for impact assessment in conditions of systemic uncertainty (2000)
Reports
- Serious Game System - MONITOR ECOTECH (2020)
- Serious Game System - SELECT ECOTECH (2020)
- Report on Cross-Case Learning Workshop (2018)
- Report on Baltic Sea Region Learning (2018)
- The Common Agricultural Policy post-2013 (2012)
- Mangrove restoration and rehabilitation for climate change adaptation in Vietnam (2011)
