Central Asian Journal of Sustainability and Climate Research
Editor-in-Chief
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Henryk Alff
Affiliation: Acting head of Center for Natural Resources and Sustainability, Kazakh German University; Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), Germany, (TRANSECT research group)
Research interest: Geographical transformation and development studies, agriculture and agroforestry, complex social-ecological systems research.
Email: Henryk.Alff@hnee.de
Editorial Board
Executive Editors
Dr. Iskandar Abdullaev
Affiliation: Deputy Director Two | CAREC Institute, Urumqi, PRC
Research interests: water management, water security, sustainable development
Dr. Oliver Bens
Affiliation: Head „Operational Management“ | Team Scientific Executive Director, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Co-Director Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG)
Email: bens@gfz-potsdam.de
Dr. Ankit Garg
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Shantou University, China.
Research interests: water, landscape/agriculture and sustainable materials in geo- environmental infrastructure
Email: ankitshantou1988@gmail.com
Dr. habil, Dr. rer. pol. Lutz Mez
Affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin
Email: lmez@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Associated Editors
M.Sc. Stefanie Wesch
Affiliation: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Research interests: Environmental Peace building, Climate Adaptation
Dr. Hans Holzhacker
Affiliation: Chief Economist at CAREC Institute.
Research interests: water/energy: agreements between upstream and downstream countries and potential cross-country investment in hydro-generation (e.g. Uzb in the Kyrgyz Republic, Rogun in Tajikistan), electrical grid, investments in alternative energy projects including hydrogen. Sustainable mobility: issues of transcontinental rail traffic through Central Asia (and rail versus road or air)
Dr. rer. nat. Gerd Schmidt
Affiliation: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Research interests: water, landscape/agriculture and sustainable materials in geo- environmental infrastructure
Dr. rer. nat. Peter Liebelt
Affiliation: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Research interests: Global change and adaptation strategies in agricultural land use, Post-Soviet land use change, Sustainable land use concepts in Central Asia
Dr. German Trofimov
Affiliation: Kazakh German University
Research interests: Energy, Renewable Energy
Email: trgerman42@gmail.com
MIA, MPH, Susan Legro
Affiliation: International climate finance and development consultancy E Co.
Research interests: low-carbon development, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and cross-cutting capacity development, climate finance
Email: susan@ecoltdgroup.com
Dr. Rainer Sawatzki
Affiliation: Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Research interests: Environmental management
Email: rainer.sawatzki@uni-hamburg.de
Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev
Affiliation: University of Bonn, Germany
Research interests:Economics of Land Use and Land Degradation, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Ecosystems restoration, Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus
Email: almir@uni-bonn.de
Dr. Ihtiyor Bobojonov
Affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Research interests: risk management, climate change, agricultural insurance, supply chains
Email: Bobojonov@iamo.de