Ravnborg, Helle Munk, PhD, Senior Researcher, Head of the research unit on Natural resources and poverty

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Helle Munk Ravnborg

PhD, Environmental, Social & Technological Planning
Senior Researcher, Head of research unit on Natural resources and poverty
T: +45 3269 8694, E: , F: +45 3269 8700

Expertise

Water governance; poverty & poverty measures; institutions; organising practices; rural development; inequality; environment and climate; land administration; natural resource governance; decentralisation; development assistance

Selected projects and programmes

Competing for water – Understanding conflict and cooperation in local water governance (www.diis.dk/water)

Rural territorial dynamics – A research-based policy advice and capacity-development program for rural economic growth, social inclusion and sound environmental governance (www.rimisp.org)

Thematic studies on ”Environment and Climate” and on “Land Administration, Gender Equality and Development Assistance” as part of the ReCOM programme on What works and what is achieved with development assistance

Selected publications

Ravnborg; H.M. et al. 2012. "The Challenge of Local Water Governance - the extent, nature and intensity of local water-related conflict and cooperation". Water Policy 14(2)336-357.

Gómez; L. and H.M. Ravnborg. 2011. "Power, Inequality, and Water Governance.
The Role of Third Party Involvement in Water-Related Conflict and
Cooperation." CAPRi Working Paper No. 101. IFPRI: Washington, D.C.

Ravnborg, H.M. 2008. "Organising to protect: Protecting landscapes and livelihoods in the Nicaraguan hillsides”, Conservation and Society 6(4):283-292

Castillo, G.E.; Namara, R.E.; Ravnborg, H.M.; Hanjra, M.A.; Smith, L.; Hussein, M.H. 2007. Reversing the flow. Agricultural water management, pathways for poverty reduction. In: Molden, D. (ed.) "Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. 2007. Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. London: Earthscan and Colombo: International Water Management Institute". Chapter 4

Ravnborg, H.M. 2006. “Water management and the poor. Issues and scales of action.” Water International, Vol. 31, no. 3

Ravnborg, H.M. 2003. “Poverty and Environmental Degradation in the Nicaraguan Hillsides”. World Development, Vol. 31. no. 11, pp. 1933-1946

Selected commissioned work

The importance of land and property rights to economic behaviour in Uganda
A study commissioned to DIIS and Makerere University by the Royal Danish Embassy, Kampala

Funder; M.; J.Fjalland; H.M. Ravnborg and H. Egelyng. 2009. "Low Carbon Development and Poverty Alleviation. Options for Development Cooperation in Energy, Agriculture and Forestry. DIIS Report 2009:20.

Ravnborg, H.M.; M.G. Damsgaard and K. Raben. 2007. “Payments for Ecosystem Services. Issues and pro-poor opportunities for development assistance” DIIS Report 2007:6. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies

Ravnborg, H.M.; H. Egelyng; K. Raben and D.A. Wardell. 2005. “Integrating Environment as a Cross-cutting Issue in Danish Development Assistance”. DIIS report 2005:10. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies.

Ravnborg, H.M. Ed. 2004. “Water and Conflict – Conflict Prevention and Mitigation in Water Resources Management”. DIIS report. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies.

Selected research related activities

Member of the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU), The Danish Strategic Research Council

Member of core-steering group for the IDRC funded Latin American research programme “Rural Territorial Dynamics” coordinated by RIMISP (www.rimisp.org)

Member of WWF-Denmark’s Scientific Committee)

Member of Programme Board for Latin America Research Programme, the Research Council of Norway

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