John Powell
BA (Geography), MSc (Natural Resources Management), PhD (Natural Resources Policy and Planning)
Senior Research Fellow
Tel +44 1242 71 4129
jpowell@glos.ac.uk
Profile
John is an ecological economist with expertise in environmental valuation, programme evaluation, and natural resources management. He began to work with the CCRI in the early 1990s. He is course leader for the postgraduate course in European Rural Development, a distance- learning programme delivered by the CCRI. For the past six years John’s work has focused on exploring options for improving management of common property resources. He was seconded to Defra for three years to work on development of new commons legislation for England and Wales, and is currently exploring the concept of resilience in upland commons and inshore fisheries around the UK.
Recent Publications
Book contribution
Powell, J and Sarlov-Herlin, I. (2006) Wild land for Scotland: exploring the issues in the light of UK and Scandinavian experience. In: H. Zucchi and P. Stegman (eds.) Wagnis Wildnis: Wildnisentwicklung und Wildnisbildung in Mitteleuropa. Oekom Verlag, Munchen.
Refereed paper
Carrier, M. and J. Powell. (2010) Mine Action Development Funding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Journal of ERW and Mine Action, Issue 14:3 (online and paper)
Hayati, D., Karami, E. and Powell, J. (2008) The impact of rural development interventions on rural households: poverty and inequality: the case of Fars Province, Iran. Iranian Journal of Sociology. Vol.2, no.1,163-189.
Shmelev, S. and Powell, J. (2006). Ecological economic modelling for strategic regional waste management systems. Ecological Economics, Vol. 59, (1) pp.115-130.
Contract reports
Powell, J. (2010) Woodland Wealth in the East of England.
Powell, J., Mills, J., Courtney, P. and Short, C. (2011) Developing approaches to ex-post assessment of regulatory change impacts at the farm level: prototype study. Draft final report to Defra.
Powell, J. (2009) Survey of public goods arising from Rural Development Programmes.
Powell, J., Reed, M., Kambites, C. and Lewis, N. (2008) Exploring market and non-market values of Cydcoed intervention, Forest Research.
Powell, J., Clark, M., Lewis, N. and Kambites, C. (2007) Exploring the connections between participants, activities, and experiences in outdoor recreation. CCW Policy Research Report No. 07/3. Countryside Council for Wales.
Powell, J., Lewis, N., Kambites, C. and Wood. D. (2007) Managing recreation on inland waters in Wales: a review of approaches. CCW Policy Research Report No. 07/4. Countryside Council for Wales.
External Presentations and other activities
(2010) Institutional erosion: time, adaptation, and resilience in commons management. International Conference on ‘Aspects of Commons and Cultural Severance in the Landscape: the End of Tradition?’ 15-17 September 2010, Sheffield Hallam University.
International presentations
(2011) Maximising policy opportunities to enhance community-based marine resource management. 13th IASC International conference, Hyderabad, India, January 10-14, 2011.
(2009) Sustainable regional waste management systems: multicriteria ecological-economic modelling. 8th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29 June – 2 July. With Shmelev, S.
(2008) Co-Chair of the 12th International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) conference, 5 day conference for 500 delegates from 70 different countries. September.
(2008) The role of leader in the new Rural Development Plan for England. Central and East European Web for Biodiversity(CEEWeb) International Forum on LEADER and Direct Marketing, Tata, Hungary, 20-21 November.
(2008) Exploring the potential of trans-national co-operation for rural development. Il ruolo dei territory rurali nella cooperazione Europea (the role of rural areas in European cooperation). International conference organised by GAL Monte Linas, held in Montevecchio (Guspini), Sardinia, 24 April.
(2007) Maximising returns from a shared resource base: the dynamics of institutional change on common land. Paper selected for the panel on Common Pool Resources in Modern Europe, European Society for Ecological Economics Conference on 'Integrating Natural and Social Sciences', Leipzig, Germany, June.
(2007) Updating Common Land Legislation for the 21st Century: the first 50 Years. International Association for the Study of Commons, Regional Conference on 'Building the European Commons', Brescia, Italy. 23-25 March.
