Ulan Kasymov: Publication list 01/2023

Abdullaev, I.,  Assubayeva, A., Bobojonov, I., Djanibekov, N., Dombrowsky, I., Gafurov, A., Hamidov, A., Herrfahrdt-Pähle, E., Janusz-Pawletta, B., Ishangulyyev, R., Kasymov, U., Mirkasimov, B., Petrick, M., Strobehn, K., & Ziganshina, D. (2025): Current challenges in Central Asian water governance and their implications for research, higher education, and science-policy interaction, Central Asian Journal of Water Research, 11(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.29258/CAJWR/2025-R1.v11-1/47-58.eng 

Peter, S., Niess, S., Batjav, Nandintsetseg Dejid, N., Drees, L., Jäschke, Y., Kasymov, U., Damdindorj, S., Dorjoo, Kh., Gonchigsumlaa, G., Denise Margaret S. Matias, D.M., Müller, Th., & Mehring, M. (2024). The role of traditional ecological knowledge, given the transformation of pastoralism in Central and Eastern Mongolia. Ambio, 53, 1813–1829. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02057-w

Schmidt, S., Hamidov, A., Kasymov, U. (2024). Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological System and Informational Governance. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1), 203–217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1322

Sandström, C., Ring, I., Olschewski, R., Simoncini, R., Albert, Ch., Acar, S., Adeishvili,  M., Allard, Ch., Anker, Y., Arlettaz, R., Bela, G.,Coscieme, L., Fischer, A., Fürst, Ch., Galil, B.,  Hynes, S., Kasymov, U., Marta-Pedroso, Ch., Mendes, A., Molau, U.,  and  Pergl, J.,(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, DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2022.2138553

Kasymov, U., Ring, I., Gonchigsumlaa, G., Dejid, N., and Drees, L. (2023). Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia. Sustainability  Science, 18, 115–131. doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01198-9

Busch, J., Ring, I., Akullo, M., Amarjargal, O., Borie, M., Cassola, R. S., Cruz-Trinidad, A., Droste, N., Haryanto, J. T., Kasymov, U.,  Kotenko, N. V., Lhkagvadorj, A., Lima De Paulo, F.L., May, P. H., Mukherjee, A., Mumbunan, S., Santos, R., Tacconi, L., Selva, G. V., Verma, M., Wang, X., Yu, L., and Zhou, K. (2021). A Global Review of the Ecological Fiscal Transfers. Nature Sustainability, 4, 756–765. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00728-0

Hamidov, A., Kasymov, U., Salokhiddinov, A., and Khamidov, M. (2020). How can intentionality and path dependence explain change in water-management institutions in Uzbekistan? International Journal of the Commons, 14(1), pp. 16–29.
doi: 10.5334/ijc.947.

Yu, L., and 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: 10.5334/ijc.940.

Simoncini, R., Ring, I., Sandström, C., Kasymov, U., Arlettaz, A. and Albert, X. (2019). “Constraints and opportunities for mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Insights from the IPBES Assessment for Europe and Central Asia”, submitted to the Land Use Policy.

Olschewski, R., Sandström, C., Kasymov, U., Johansson, J., Fürst  Ch, and Ring, I. (2018). Challenges and opportunities in developing new forest governance systems – Insights from the IPBES assessment for Europe and Central Asia. Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 97, 175-179, doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2018.10.007.

Kasymov, U., and Hamidov, A. (2017). Comparative Analysis of Nature-Related Transactions and Governance Structures in Pasture and Irrigation Water Use in Central Asia. Sustainability, 9(9), 1633; doi:10.3390/su9091633.

Kasymov, U., and Zikos, D. (2017). Understanding Human Actions and Institutional Change: What Are the Impacts of Power Asymmetries on Efficiency in Pasture Use? Resources, 6(71); doi:10.3390/resources6040071.

Kasymov, U., Undeland, A., Dörre, A. and MacKinnon, A. (2016). Central Asia – Kyrgyzstan and the learning experience in design of pastoral institutions. The Future of Pastoralism, OIE Scientific and Technical Review, Vol. 35 (2), August 2016.

Baerlein, T., Kasymov, U., and Zikos, D. (2015). Self-Governance and Sustainable Common Pool Resource Management in Kyrgyzstan. Sustainability 7(1), 496- 521.

Dörre, A., and Kasymov, U. (2021). User-Based Pasture Management in Kyrgyzstan: Achievements, Challenges, and Trends. Paper presented at the XXIV International Grassland Congress / XI International Rangeland Congress (Sustainable Use of Grassland and Rangeland Resources for Improved Livelihoods), 25–29 October 2021. Available at https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/24/6/11/

Kasymov, U., and Ring, I., (2021). Exploring Institutional Complementarity and Social Thresh-olds of Mobility in Pastoral Social-Ecological Systems in Mongolia. Paper presented at the XXIV International Grassland Congress / XI International Rangeland Congress (Sustainable Use of Grassland and Rangeland Resources for Improved Livelihoods), 25–29 October 2021. Available at https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/24/6/25

Korintenberg, M., Gotgelf, A.,  Baibagyshov, E., Judis, R., Kasymov, U., Walter, J., Lange, S.,  Neetzow, P., Eisenack, K., and Zeitz, J. (2021). Method for organic carbon stock assessment and improvement of Land Degradation Neutrality and climate change reporting on agricultural ecosystems in the Kyrgyz Republic, Soil Science and Resource Economics Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Kasymov, U., Oyundelger, K., Uvgunkhuu, M., and Ring, I. (2020). Regional socio-economic report. Research report of the BioTip project MORE STEP – Mobility at risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem. International Institute Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden, Zittau.

Margaret, D. M., Drees, L., Kasymov, U., Dejid, N., Batbuyan, B., Dashpurev, T., Dorj, U., Gonchigsumlaa, G., Müller, T., Ring, I., and Mehring, M. (2020). Mobility at risk: Sustaining the Mongolian steppe ecosystem –developing a vision. Stakeholder involvement and identification of drivers and pathways towards sustainable development. ISOE-Materialien Soziale Ökologie, Nr. 62. Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung (ISOE) GmbH, Frankfurt am Main.

Ring, I., Sandströ m, C., Acar, S., Adeishvili, M., Albert, C., Allard, C., Anker, Y., Arlettaz, R., Bela, G., ten Brink, B., Coscieme, L., Fischer, A., Fü rst, C., Galil, B., Hynes, S., Kasymov, U., Marta-Pedroso, C., Mendes, A., Molau, U., Olschewski, R., Pergl, J. and Simoncini, R. Chapter 6: Options for governance and decision-making across scales and sectors. In IPBES (2018): The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia. Rounsevell, M., Fischer, M., Torre- Marin Rando, A. and Mader, A. (eds.). Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services, Bonn, Germany, 927-1130.

Ridder, R., Isakov, A. and Kasymov, U. (2017). Transformation in Pasture use in Kyrgyzstan. What are the Costs of Pasture Degradation? In V. R. Squires, S. Zhan-Huan, & A. Ariapour, eds. Rangelands along the Silk Road: Transformative Adaptation under Climate and Global Change. Nova Science Publishers, 299–322.

Kasymov, U. (2016): Designing institutions in a post-socialist transformation process. Institutions in regulating access to and management of pasture resources in Kyrgyzstan Institutional change in agriculture and natural resources. V. Beckmann & K. Hagedorn, eds., Aachen: Shaker Verlag.

Kasymov, U. (2016). Mensch und Umwelt in Kirgistan Politische Ökologie im postkolonialen und postsozialistischen Kontext. Central Asian Survey, 35(2), pp.313–315.

Bichsel, C., Ibraimova, A., Kasymov, U., Steimann, B., Thieme, S., and Fokou, C. (2010). Natural resource institutions in transformation: The tragedy and glory of the private. In H. Hurni & U. Wiesmann, eds. Global Change and Sustainable Development: A Synthesis of Regional Experiences from Research Partnerships. Bern: Geographica Bernensia, 255–269.