Juha I Uitto
Biographic Data
| ID | 163291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juha I Uitto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juha I |
| FAMILY NAME | Uitto |
| SIGNATURE | UITTO J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Global Environment Facility |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2981-7693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Using a systems lens in evaluations at the nexus of environment and development
Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Protected Areas
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on global socioeconomic systems, with profound effects on human health and well-being. Measures to contain the spread of the virus, such as lockdowns and travel restrictions, significantly altered how humans interact with one another and the environment. This article examines the impact of the pandemic on protected areas (PAs) supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the primary financ…
Transformational Change for People and the Planet: Evaluating Environment and Development
This Open Access book offers concrete examples from field evaluations with clear lessons on how to design and conduct sustainable development evaluations
The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners
Leading evaluation practitioners were asked about lessons from the recent 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for evaluation practice. Contributors emphasize the importance of evaluating equity between rich and poor countries and other forms of climate injustice. The role of the evaluation is questioned: what can evaluation be expected to do on its own and what requires collaboration across disciplines, professions and civil society – and acro…
Surviving the Anthropocene: How evaluation can contribute to knowledge and better policymaking
We live in the Anthropocene in which human impact on Earth is the dominant force. At the same time, humans are very much part of the ecosystem. This close interdependency is brought home by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as by anthropogenic climate change. Ecosystem health and human health are closely interlinked. Transformational change is required to avoid further catastrophes caused by the three environmental crises that human actions have caus…
Transformational Change for People and the Planet: Evaluating Environment and Development
Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety
Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Environmental Management
Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction
Evaluating the environment as a global public good
Global public goods are defined as non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Global environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation or climate change mitigation, fall squarely into this category. This contribution focuses on the specific dimensions of evaluating the provision of global public goods in light of experiences from the Global Environment Facility. As global environmental problems persist, it is important that evaluations focus on …
Evaluating environment and development: Lessons from international cooperation
This article discusses environmental evaluation in the context of national development in developing countries. It makes a case for evaluation to move beyond evaluating individual interventions to assessing the contributions to sustainable development at the national and international levels. It highlights challenges relating to evaluating environment in national development, as well as aggregation and attribution of results from programmes aimed…
Making M&E More ‘Impact-oriented’: Illustrations from the UN
In international development, impact evaluation (IE) is becoming more and more an institutionalised practice. This article starts out by addressing the question of what institutionalisation of IE means and how it could work. Subsequently, the article explores common challenges in monitoring and evaluation functions in the UN system related to the supply of (and to a lesser extent demand for) evidence on impact. Rather than looking for solutions t…
Influencing the global through understanding the local: Harold Brookfield's contribution to international organisations' biodiversity policy
This article focuses on a significant paradigm shift in the approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing countries that has affected important international organisations, including the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This paradigm shift marks a movement beyond protected areas to production landscapes. It is argued that one particular project, People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC), developed under the leadership …
Evolution of river management in Japan: From focus on economic benefits to a comprehensive view
Multi-country cooperation around shared waters: Role of monitoring and evaluation
Management of transboundary water resources: Lessons From International Cooperation for Conflict Prevention
Tensions over freshwater resources may become more frequent as pressures on water resources grow due to increased demand and variability of rainfall. Conflicts may take place between or within countries or between competing sectoral users. This paper focuses on institutional approaches for enhancing cooperation between countries for sustainable development of transboundary freshwater bodies and contributing basins. It is assumed that instead of b…
Water wars? Geographical perspectives: Introduction
Small island developing states: Natural disaster vulnerability and global change
Small island developing states: Natural disaster vulnerability and global change
This paper sets out an examination of natural disaster amongst small island developing states (SIDS), and presents a framework for assessing the interaction of global pressures and local dynamics in the production of human vulnerability. Change at the global level is found to be a source of new opportunities as well as constraints on building local resilience to natural disaster. Much depends on the orientation of the state in global economic and…
Environmental governance and the impending water crisis
Population, land management and environmental change: The genesis of PLEC within the United Nations University programme
UNU Monitor
UNU monitor
The Kenyan Conumdrum: A Regional Analysis of Population Growth and Primary Education in Kenya
Sustainable environmental and resource management futures for Sub-Saharan Africa
Management of transboundary water resources: Lessons From International Cooperation for Conflict Prevention
Tensions over freshwater resources may become more frequent as pressures on water resources grow due to increased demand and variability of rainfall. Conflicts may take place between or within countries or between competing sectoral users. This paper focuses on institutional approaches for enhancing cooperation between countries for sustainable development of transboundary freshwater bodies and contributing basins. It is assumed that instead of b…
Small island developing states: Natural disaster vulnerability and global change
This paper sets out an examination of natural disaster amongst small island developing states (SIDS), and presents a framework for assessing the interaction of global pressures and local dynamics in the production of human vulnerability. Change at the global level is found to be a source of new opportunities as well as constraints on building local resilience to natural disaster. Much depends on the orientation of the state in global economic and…
Water wars? Geographical perspectives: Introduction
Evolution of river management in Japan: From focus on economic benefits to a comprehensive view
Surviving the Anthropocene: How evaluation can contribute to knowledge and better policymaking
We live in the Anthropocene in which human impact on Earth is the dominant force. At the same time, humans are very much part of the ecosystem. This close interdependency is brought home by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as by anthropogenic climate change. Ecosystem health and human health are closely interlinked. Transformational change is required to avoid further catastrophes caused by the three environmental crises that human actions have caus…
Evaluating the environment as a global public good
Global public goods are defined as non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Global environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation or climate change mitigation, fall squarely into this category. This contribution focuses on the specific dimensions of evaluating the provision of global public goods in light of experiences from the Global Environment Facility. As global environmental problems persist, it is important that evaluations focus on …
Multi-country cooperation around shared waters: Role of monitoring and evaluation
Population, land management and environmental change: The genesis of PLEC within the United Nations University programme
Evaluating environment and development: Lessons from international cooperation
This article discusses environmental evaluation in the context of national development in developing countries. It makes a case for evaluation to move beyond evaluating individual interventions to assessing the contributions to sustainable development at the national and international levels. It highlights challenges relating to evaluating environment in national development, as well as aggregation and attribution of results from programmes aimed…
Influencing the global through understanding the local: Harold Brookfield's contribution to international organisations' biodiversity policy
This article focuses on a significant paradigm shift in the approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing countries that has affected important international organisations, including the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This paradigm shift marks a movement beyond protected areas to production landscapes. It is argued that one particular project, People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC), developed under the leadership …
Environmental governance and the impending water crisis
Sustainable environmental and resource management futures for Sub-Saharan Africa
The Kenyan Conundrum: A Regional Analysis of Population Growth and Primary Education in Kenya
UNU monitor
Toward a sustainable environmental future for the Southeast Asian region: UNU conference held in Indonesia, 6?10 May 1991
Sustainable environmental and resource management futures for Sub-Saharan Africa
UNU monitor
The Kenyan Conumdrum: A Regional Analysis of Population Growth and Primary Education in Kenya
Population, land management and environmental change: The genesis of PLEC within the United Nations University programme
UNU Monitor
Environmental governance and the impending water crisis
Small island developing states: Natural disaster vulnerability and global change
Small island developing states: Natural disaster vulnerability and global change
This paper sets out an examination of natural disaster amongst small island developing states (SIDS), and presents a framework for assessing the interaction of global pressures and local dynamics in the production of human vulnerability. Change at the global level is found to be a source of new opportunities as well as constraints on building local resilience to natural disaster. Much depends on the orientation of the state in global economic and…
Management of transboundary water resources: Lessons From International Cooperation for Conflict Prevention
Tensions over freshwater resources may become more frequent as pressures on water resources grow due to increased demand and variability of rainfall. Conflicts may take place between or within countries or between competing sectoral users. This paper focuses on institutional approaches for enhancing cooperation between countries for sustainable development of transboundary freshwater bodies and contributing basins. It is assumed that instead of b…
Water wars? Geographical perspectives: Introduction
Evolution of river management in Japan: From focus on economic benefits to a comprehensive view
Multi-country cooperation around shared waters: Role of monitoring and evaluation
Influencing the global through understanding the local: Harold Brookfield's contribution to international organisations' biodiversity policy
This article focuses on a significant paradigm shift in the approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing countries that has affected important international organisations, including the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This paradigm shift marks a movement beyond protected areas to production landscapes. It is argued that one particular project, People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC), developed under the leadership …
Evaluating environment and development: Lessons from international cooperation
This article discusses environmental evaluation in the context of national development in developing countries. It makes a case for evaluation to move beyond evaluating individual interventions to assessing the contributions to sustainable development at the national and international levels. It highlights challenges relating to evaluating environment in national development, as well as aggregation and attribution of results from programmes aimed…
Making M&E More ‘Impact-oriented’: Illustrations from the UN
In international development, impact evaluation (IE) is becoming more and more an institutionalised practice. This article starts out by addressing the question of what institutionalisation of IE means and how it could work. Subsequently, the article explores common challenges in monitoring and evaluation functions in the UN system related to the supply of (and to a lesser extent demand for) evidence on impact. Rather than looking for solutions t…
Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction
Evaluating the environment as a global public good
Global public goods are defined as non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Global environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation or climate change mitigation, fall squarely into this category. This contribution focuses on the specific dimensions of evaluating the provision of global public goods in light of experiences from the Global Environment Facility. As global environmental problems persist, it is important that evaluations focus on …
Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety
Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Environmental Management
Surviving the Anthropocene: How evaluation can contribute to knowledge and better policymaking
We live in the Anthropocene in which human impact on Earth is the dominant force. At the same time, humans are very much part of the ecosystem. This close interdependency is brought home by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as by anthropogenic climate change. Ecosystem health and human health are closely interlinked. Transformational change is required to avoid further catastrophes caused by the three environmental crises that human actions have caus…
Transformational Change for People and the Planet: Evaluating Environment and Development
Transformational Change for People and the Planet: Evaluating Environment and Development
This Open Access book offers concrete examples from field evaluations with clear lessons on how to design and conduct sustainable development evaluations
The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response
Political science (23 works) · Geography (21 works) · Environmental planning (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Environmental resource management (13 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Sustainable development (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works)