Neil Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8665-2370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Multifunctional landscapes in Sweden – How the concept is understood and implemented in research and practice
Multifunctionality is increasingly recognized as key to promoting biodiversity and delivering diverse benefits at the landscape level. However, varying interpretations in research and policy create challenges for practical implementation. This study examines how multifunctionality is understood and governed across five landscape types in Sweden: forest, agricultural, coastal and marine, urban, and mountain. By combining a review of scientific and…
Creating alternative future trajectories for carbon farming through a relational lens
This paper investigates how futures thinking and relational thinking may expand practices and strategies in agriculture that aim for sustainability. Using carbon farming as a case where relational thinking is brought into conversation with futures thinking, we explore how imaginaries of sustainability transformations can be further expanded to include ways of knowing, being, and doing that imagine more radical, relational, and ethical futures. Ba…
Co-creating multifunctional landscapes – lessons from three case studies
In the face of overlapping social and environmental challenges, multifunctionality has emerged as an important concept in ecosystem and landscape governance. To operationalize multifunctionality, the governance literature calls for collaborative approaches. Despite the abundant literature on collaborative approaches, there is a gap between rhetoric and practice and a need for more real-world examples. This paper explores the role and value of co-…
Analyzing environmental communication and citizen science in the context of environmental monitoring and assessment for Agenda 2030 in rural settings of Chile and Sweden
Introduction This article offers an analysis of environmental communication (EC) and citizen science (CS) in the context of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMA) for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life on Land) in Chile and Sweden. Methods The paper is based on fieldwork in two rural study areas of Chile and Sweden where we followed different CS initiatives in relation to EMA and Agenda 2030. We conducted interview…
Exploring co-creation labs
This paper reports on research into co-creation labs as a tool for exploring environmental communication.Co-creation labs are novel spaces for experimentation, social learning, and trans-disciplinary as well as cross-sectoral collaboration for sustainability transformations.This paper examines the approach taken by researchers to theorising, via a repurposing of the 22 scenario matrix, a series of "labs" that represent diverse spaces in which to …
Health, sustainability and transformation
Knowledge co-production in the Helge å catchment
Addressing sustainability challenges in landscape management requires processes for co-producing usable knowledge together with those who will use that knowledge. Participatory futures methods are powerful tools for attaining such knowledge. The applications of such methods are diverse and understanding the intricacies of the knowledge co-production process is important to further develop these research practices. To improve participatory futures…
Crisis management
Crisis management planning and response can be improved by regional governments and organisations learning from one another. Specifically, comparative learning may be a benefit when groups understand the perceived effectiveness of various regional approaches when responding to different types of hazards. This article presents findings from a comparative case study analysis of regional governance perspectives of crisis management for geopolitical …
Rethinking Decision Support Under Conditions of Irreducible Uncertainty
Science-informed, reductionist policy has systematically failed to address wicked situations. Such situations are highly interconnected and unpredictable. As a consequence, the implementation of so-called desirable interventions can lead to the export of vulnerabilities within and across different societal domains, sectors, intersections and scales. Systemic practice is an emerging field, and highlights the need to enrich scientific inquiry and p…
Policies for wetlands implementation in Denmark and Sweden – historical lessons and emerging issues
A framework for facilitating dialogue between policy planners and local climate change adaptation professionals
Integrated water resource management
Higher education institutions in Sweden are increasingly exposed to international market conditions and rising competition from a more mobile student body. This increases the need for universities to adapt to their social and economic environment and to their clients, including the political trends and financial opportunities in Sweden and EU, if they are to successfully implement sustainability reforms. In this regard, we examine the barriers fa…
Approaches for understanding and embedding stakeholder realities in mangrove rehabilitation processes in Southeast Asia
Using a soft systems narrative, this paper examines the implementation process growing out of a policy environment intended to promote the rehabilitation of mangrove ecosystems. The analysis is based on research conducted 2007–09 in the Mahakam Delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. The rich and diverse natural resource base of the area has turned East Kalimantan into one of the wealthiest areas in Indonesia. The case from Mahakam reveals t…
Combining social learning with agro-ecological research practice for more effective management of nitrate pollution
All the lonely people
In Arden
The prologue
A slight angle
The noble truce
A death
Hero and human
Listen
A Cooling Universe
Suffolk Poems
The Abstract Joy
A framework for facilitating dialogue between policy planners and local climate change adaptation professionals
Combining social learning with agro-ecological research practice for more effective management of nitrate pollution
Approaches for understanding and embedding stakeholder realities in mangrove rehabilitation processes in Southeast Asia
Using a soft systems narrative, this paper examines the implementation process growing out of a policy environment intended to promote the rehabilitation of mangrove ecosystems. The analysis is based on research conducted 2007–09 in the Mahakam Delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. The rich and diverse natural resource base of the area has turned East Kalimantan into one of the wealthiest areas in Indonesia. The case from Mahakam reveals t…
Policies for wetlands implementation in Denmark and Sweden – historical lessons and emerging issues
Rethinking Decision Support Under Conditions of Irreducible Uncertainty
Science-informed, reductionist policy has systematically failed to address wicked situations. Such situations are highly interconnected and unpredictable. As a consequence, the implementation of so-called desirable interventions can lead to the export of vulnerabilities within and across different societal domains, sectors, intersections and scales. Systemic practice is an emerging field, and highlights the need to enrich scientific inquiry and p…
Integrated water resource management
Higher education institutions in Sweden are increasingly exposed to international market conditions and rising competition from a more mobile student body. This increases the need for universities to adapt to their social and economic environment and to their clients, including the political trends and financial opportunities in Sweden and EU, if they are to successfully implement sustainability reforms. In this regard, we examine the barriers fa…
The Abstract Joy
Suffolk Poems
Listen
A Cooling Universe
Hero and human
A death
The noble truce
The prologue
A slight angle
In Arden
All the lonely people
Combining social learning with agro-ecological research practice for more effective management of nitrate pollution
Approaches for understanding and embedding stakeholder realities in mangrove rehabilitation processes in Southeast Asia
Using a soft systems narrative, this paper examines the implementation process growing out of a policy environment intended to promote the rehabilitation of mangrove ecosystems. The analysis is based on research conducted 2007–09 in the Mahakam Delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. The rich and diverse natural resource base of the area has turned East Kalimantan into one of the wealthiest areas in Indonesia. The case from Mahakam reveals t…
A framework for facilitating dialogue between policy planners and local climate change adaptation professionals
Integrated water resource management
Higher education institutions in Sweden are increasingly exposed to international market conditions and rising competition from a more mobile student body. This increases the need for universities to adapt to their social and economic environment and to their clients, including the political trends and financial opportunities in Sweden and EU, if they are to successfully implement sustainability reforms. In this regard, we examine the barriers fa…
Rethinking Decision Support Under Conditions of Irreducible Uncertainty
Science-informed, reductionist policy has systematically failed to address wicked situations. Such situations are highly interconnected and unpredictable. As a consequence, the implementation of so-called desirable interventions can lead to the export of vulnerabilities within and across different societal domains, sectors, intersections and scales. Systemic practice is an emerging field, and highlights the need to enrich scientific inquiry and p…
Policies for wetlands implementation in Denmark and Sweden – historical lessons and emerging issues
Health, sustainability and transformation
Knowledge co-production in the Helge å catchment
Addressing sustainability challenges in landscape management requires processes for co-producing usable knowledge together with those who will use that knowledge. Participatory futures methods are powerful tools for attaining such knowledge. The applications of such methods are diverse and understanding the intricacies of the knowledge co-production process is important to further develop these research practices. To improve participatory futures…
Crisis management
Crisis management planning and response can be improved by regional governments and organisations learning from one another. Specifically, comparative learning may be a benefit when groups understand the perceived effectiveness of various regional approaches when responding to different types of hazards. This article presents findings from a comparative case study analysis of regional governance perspectives of crisis management for geopolitical …
Analyzing environmental communication and citizen science in the context of environmental monitoring and assessment for Agenda 2030 in rural settings of Chile and Sweden
Introduction This article offers an analysis of environmental communication (EC) and citizen science (CS) in the context of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMA) for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life on Land) in Chile and Sweden. Methods The paper is based on fieldwork in two rural study areas of Chile and Sweden where we followed different CS initiatives in relation to EMA and Agenda 2030. We conducted interview…
Exploring co-creation labs
This paper reports on research into co-creation labs as a tool for exploring environmental communication.Co-creation labs are novel spaces for experimentation, social learning, and trans-disciplinary as well as cross-sectoral collaboration for sustainability transformations.This paper examines the approach taken by researchers to theorising, via a repurposing of the 22 scenario matrix, a series of "labs" that represent diverse spaces in which to …
Creating alternative future trajectories for carbon farming through a relational lens
This paper investigates how futures thinking and relational thinking may expand practices and strategies in agriculture that aim for sustainability. Using carbon farming as a case where relational thinking is brought into conversation with futures thinking, we explore how imaginaries of sustainability transformations can be further expanded to include ways of knowing, being, and doing that imagine more radical, relational, and ethical futures. Ba…
Co-creating multifunctional landscapes – lessons from three case studies
In the face of overlapping social and environmental challenges, multifunctionality has emerged as an important concept in ecosystem and landscape governance. To operationalize multifunctionality, the governance literature calls for collaborative approaches. Despite the abundant literature on collaborative approaches, there is a gap between rhetoric and practice and a need for more real-world examples. This paper explores the role and value of co-…
Multifunctional landscapes in Sweden – How the concept is understood and implemented in research and practice
Multifunctionality is increasingly recognized as key to promoting biodiversity and delivering diverse benefits at the landscape level. However, varying interpretations in research and policy create challenges for practical implementation. This study examines how multifunctionality is understood and governed across five landscape types in Sweden: forest, agricultural, coastal and marine, urban, and mountain. By combining a review of scientific and…
Computer Science (16 works) · Citation (11 works) · Library science (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works)