Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Resource Economics

Dr. Ulan Kasymov

Postdoc

Matteo Roggero
Fig.: Ulan Kasymov

 

Research Interests

 

Contact

  • Institutional economics
  • Environmental governance
  • Institutional change
  • Transformation
  • Rural development
 

Room: 1.19
Phone:   +49-30-2093-6225
Fax:     +49-30-2093-46361

kasymovu (at) hu-berlin.de

Current Research Projects

 

 

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Academic Career

Since 2019  

Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Ecosystem Services, International Institute Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden

2016-2019  

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Resource Ecomomics Group
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2011-2016  

PhD in Agricultural Economics
Faculty of Life Sciences
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Awarded degree – Doctor Rerum Agriculturarum (Dr. rer. agr.)

2013-2014  

Visiting scholar
Department of Agricultural Economics, Gent University

2005-2007  

Regional coordinator of the National Competence Centre in Research (NCCR) North-South Program in Central Asia implemented by the University of Bern, funded by the Swiss Scientific Foundation (SSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The regional program supported Central Asian and Swiss scholars in studying global change and sustainable development

1986-1992  

Diploma in Philosophy (State University of Tomsk, Faculty of Philosophy) Awarded degree – Teacher of Philosophy (Dipl.-Phil.)

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Selected Publications

Sandström, C., Ring, I., Olschewski, R., Simoncini, R., Albert, C., … Kasymov, U., et al. (2023). Mainstreaming biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people in Europe and Central Asia: Insights from IPBES to inform the CBD Post-2020 agenda. Ecosystems and People, 19:1, 2138553, https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2138553

Kasymov, U., Ring, I., Gonchigsumlaa, G., Dejid, N., Drees, L. (2022). Exploring complementarity of interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01198-9

Hamidov, A., Kasymov, U., Allahverdiyeva, N., Schleyer, Ch. (2022). Governance of technological innovations in water and energy use in Uzbekistan, International Journal of Water Resources Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2062706

Kasymov, U., Wang, X., Zikos, D., Chopan, M., Ibele, B. (2022): Institutional barriers to sustainable forest management: Lessons from a framed field experiment. Ecological Economics 193, 107276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107276.

Busch, J., Ring, I., Akullo, M., Amarjargal, O., Borie, M., Cassola, R. S., Cruz-Trinidad, A., Droste, N., Haryanto, J. T., Kasymov, U., et al. (2021). A Global Review of the Ecological Fiscal Transfers. Nature Sustainability. 4, 756–765. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00728-0

Yu, L., Kasymov, U. (2020). Social construction of pastureland: Changing rules and resource use rights in China and Kyrgyzstan, International Journal of the Commons. 14(1), pp. 1–15, doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.940

Kasymov, U., Thiel, A. (2019). Understanding the role of power in changes to pastoral institutions in Kyrgyzstan. International Journal of the Commons. 13(2), pp. 931–948, doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.870

 

Complete CV including publication list pdf

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Teaching

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • Advanced Empirical Methodology for SES Analysis: (1) Multiple Methods in Socio-Ecological Systems Studies; (2) Game Theory & Behavioural Experiments in Natural Resource Use (SS 2017)

American University of Central Asia

  • Theoretical, experimental and empirical methods to study Socio-Ecological-Technical Systems in Central Asia (WS 2017)

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Other Activities

 

  • 2005 – 2010 Initiator and director of Kyrgyz NGO “CAMP Alatoo”. Overall management of the organization and coordination of projects in the field of mountain development and natural resource management in Central Asia (pasture and water use, energy efficiency and natural disaster risks management)
  • 2000 – 2008 Project coordinator at Central Asian Mountain Partnership (CAMP) program implemented by University of Bern and funded by SDC. Program representation and coordination of projects in the field of rural development and natural resource management in Central Asia

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