Aaron J.M. Russell

portrait Dr. Aaron J.M. Russell
GGGI Uzbekistan Country Representative

Green Growth Planning and Implementation Division
GGGI Uzbekistan
Global Green Growth Institute
State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection
7a, Bunyodkor Av.
Tashkent, 100042
Uzbekistan


Phone: +998 999-269-149
E-mail: aaron.russell(at)gggi.org
URL Institution: https://gggi.org/country/uzbekistan/
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Aaron J.M. Russell (up to ten) :
World Bank, GGGI, UQ (2020), Investment Analysis for Mangrove Ecosystems in the Ayeyarwady Region. World Bank Technical Report.

Cara Steger, Julia A. Klein, Robin Reid, Sandra Lavorel, Catherine Tucker, Karim Aly-Kasam, Aida Cuni Sanchez, Kelly Hopping, Rob Marchant, Anne Nolin, Jessica P. R. Thorn, Tara Teel, Tsechoe Dorji, Gordon Grant, Greg Greenwood, Robert Huber, David Kreuer, Mohammed Mahdi, Berta Martin-Lopez, Martha Moreno, Aaron J.M. Russell, Mateja Smid, and Daniel Waiswa (2020). Science with Society: Evidence-based Guidance for Best Practices in Environmental Transdisciplinary Work. Global Environmental Change.

Reem Hajjar, Johan A Oldekop, Peter Cronkleton, Peter Newton, Aaron JM Russell, Wen Zhou (2019). A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests. Nature Sustainability

Ongugo PO, Langat D, Oeba VO, Kimondo JM, Owuor B, Njuguna J, Okwaro G and Russell A.J.M. 2014. A review of Kenya’s national policies relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation: Insights from Mount Elgon. Working Paper 155. Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR. [Available online at: http://www.cifor.org/library/5332/a-review-of-kenyas-national-policies-relevant-to-climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation-insights-from-mount-elgon/]

Banana AY, Byakagaba P, Russell A.J.M., Waiswa D, and Bomuhangi A. 2014. A review of Uganda’s national policies relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation: Insights from Mount Elgon. Working Paper 157. Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR. [Available online at: http://www.cifor.org/library/5333/a-review-of-ugandas-national-policies-relevant-to-climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation-insights-from-mount-elgon/]

Russell, Aaron J.M., Bruno Locatelli, Emilia Pramova, Godfrey Jeff Alumai, and Diji Chandrasekharan Behr. 2012. Using Forests to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change: What do we know about how forests can contribute to adaptation? Working Paper. Washington DC: Program on Forests (PROFOR). (Full-text available online at: http://www.profor.info/sites/profor.info/files/docs/State-of-Knowledge-Forests-Adaptation%20-2012-11-15_0.pdf.)

Russell, A.J.M., and Tracy Dobson. 2011. Chiefs as critical partners for decentralized governance of fisheries: an analysis of co-management case studies in Malawi. Society and Natural Resources 24: 734-750. [Available online at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/usnr/2011/00000024/00000007/art00007.]

Russell, A.J.M., and Tracy Dobson. 2011. When free-riders become the agents for change – migrant fishers, institutional resilience, and adaptive fisheries management in Malawi. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 37 (Suppl.1): 114-118. [Available online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133010001024.]

Mills, D. ; Béné, C. ; Ovie, S. ; Tafida, A. ; Sinaba, F. ; Kodio, A. ; Russell, A. ; Andrew, N. ; Morand, P. & Lemoalle, J. 2009. Vulnerability in African small-scale fishing communities. Journal of Int. Development 23(2):308-313. [Available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.1638/full.]

Russell, A.J.M., Dobson, T., and J.G.M. Wilson. 2008. Fisheries Management in Malawi: a patchwork of traditional, modern, and post-modern regimes unfolds. In Taylor, Schechter and Leonard (eds.) International Governance of Fisheries Ecosystems: learning from the past, finding solutions for the future. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD, p.53-94.



Specialties of Aaron J.M. Russell:
I am a natural resource governance, rural livelihoods and climate change adaptation professional with 15 years of experience working throughout Africa and SE Asia (and parts of Europe, North and Central America). I use a range of socio-economic and ecological methodologies to assess fishery and forest sustainability, climate change resilience of dependent stakeholders and effectiveness of associated institutions and policies. I have worked with small-scale river and lake fishery, coastal sea turtle, agriculture, and forest-dependent communities in diverse ecological, institutional, cultural, political and climatic contexts. This provides me with insights for development of Ecosystem-based Adaptation solutions that address policy and economic drivers of watershed-wide resource use changes and impacts of climate variability. I aim to mobilize stakeholder groups to engage in watershed-level dialogues and partnerships that bridge traditional administrative hierarchies by distilling evidence-based policy recommendations and facilitating of capacity-building workshops for policy makers, resource managers and community leaders. In all activities, I seek to engage with, collect data from, and empower gender-/age-/class/ethnicity-based marginalized groups in order to foster more socially responsive and equitable protected area, participatory NRM or REDD+ governance. Having developed and led implementation of multiple international collaborative projects, and from my current work in M&E, I understand challenges faced by projects in design, planning, implementation and stakeholder engagement. I am a US/Belgian citizen, and speak fluent English, Dutch, German, advanced French, intermediate ChiChewa, Spanish and Italian, and basic Bahasa Indonesia. In addition to having field experience in >15 countries, I have lived in Malawi, Egypt, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Myanmar, Uzbekistan. Profile: LinkedIn; Publications: Research Gate.

Last update: 12/1/21
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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