Troy Sternberg (B413-3FDE-7B33)

Curriculum Vitae

Troy Sternberg

Extensive travel led to Troy's interest in desert regions, environments and people. Thoughts on how arid lands functioned and why there was such great diversity and extent led to his DPhil on pastoral environments in the Gobi Desert (University of Oxford, 2009). Research focused on extreme climate hazards (drought, dzud), environments (water, steppe vegetation, desertification) and social dynamics (pastoralists, social-environmental interaction, mining and communities). Since 2005 Troy has continued to research in Mongolia; in 2010 northern China and in 2015 Central Asia became additional study sites. Work on mining, communities and conflict in drylands and Chinese drought impact on the Arab Spring has stimulated interest in how environmental factors contribute to contemporary conflict and displacement. Investigation in the Gobi Desert, Kyrgyz and Kazakh steppe, Za'atari Refugee Camp, Jordan, Al-Shati Camp, Gaza and Colombia reflect ongoing interest in socio-ecological contestation and community development. Current research includes the FCT project 'Mystical Nature: A comparative study of religious-environmental dynamics among Inner Asian, African and North American dryland communities' at the Centre for International Studies, ISCTE-IUL as Co-Investigator; Post-Pandemic Societies in Inner Asia funded by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) and United Kingdom Research and Innovation – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with the University of Oxford, UK; the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence - Mobilities and Socialities: COVID-19 in the Drylands with the University of Bayreuth, Germany; and FCT STIMULUS Award - Principal Investigator, ‘Silk Road Geographies of Change’, Centre for International Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal. Troy has received awards and scholarships including Portugal's Fundacao para Ciencias e Tccnologia STIMULUS Award, the Royal Geographical Society, British Academy, Oman-Thesiger Desert Fellowship, British Science Association, UK Research & Public Policy Partnership, UK Global Challenges Research Fund, ESRC Impact Accelerator, UK-China Visiting Scholars, UK US Fulbright Fellow, the EU's 'Drylands Facing Change' & 'Arid Lands Rehabilitation' and the UK Special Talent Visa. He feels travel is an integral part of geography and encourages engagement and understanding of our globalised world.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Troy Sternberg

Citation names

Sternberg, Troy

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B413-3FDE-7B33

Education

	Degree	Classification
2009 Concluded	Geography (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Geography University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, United Kingdom "“Nomadic Geography: Pastoral environments in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia” 2009." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003/07 - 2004/12 Concluded	Range Science (Master) Major in Arid Lands Texas Tech University, United States "Grass repellency to the red imported fire ant" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1977/09 - 1981/06 Concluded	Communications (Bachelor) Major in Communications University of California Los Angeles, United States "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/11/09 - Current	Researcher (Research)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal

2009/05/01 - Current	Coordinating Researcher (Research)	University of Oxford Social Sciences Division, United Kingdom
	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022 - Current	Visiting Researcher	Tokai Daigaku - Isehara Campus, Japan
	Tokai Daigaku Daigakuin Kenko Kagaku Kenkyuka, Japan

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/05 - Current	COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research - COVID-19 in African and Asian Drylands, - FOUNDING MEMBER ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal	Ongoing
2025 - 2028	Integration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices and carbon pricing green finance xxxx Integration into Research Grant Fellow Gakko Hojin Tokai Daigaku, Japan	Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Submitted
2022/02/01 - 2025/03/31	Post Pandemic Societies in Inner Asia ES/W011999/1. Research Fellow Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan	Concluded
2021/03 - 2024/03	MYSTICAL NATURES: A comparative study of religious-environmental dynamics among Inner Asian, African and North American dryland communities (Co-Principal Investigator) - FCT - Co-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018 - 2022	Gobi Framework ES/S000798/1 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom	Concluded
2017 - 2022	Drylands Facing Change xxxx Invited Scientist Fellow	European Union Cost Action Concluded
2018/09 - 2021/08	GOBI FRAMEWORK Mediation model for sustainable infrastructure development ES/S000798/1 Research Fellow University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom	Economic and Social Research Council Ongoing
2020/03 - 2021/07	Upscaling community mediation from Central to Southeast Asia 2002-KICK-513 Principal investigator Global Challenges Research Fund, United Kingdom	Ongoing
2020/10/15 - 2021/04/30	Designing COVID-19 policy for pastoral communities in Mongolia n/a Principal investigator UK Research & Public Policy Partnership Scheme, United Kingdom	UK Research & Public Policy Partnership Scheme Ongoing
2020 - 2021	Central Asian Research Network - Principal investigator University of Oxford, United Kingdom	Ongoing
2017/02 - 2018/08	CHINA'S FRONTIER: Institutions, Infrastructure and Landscapes in New Silk Road Nations - Research Fellow University of Oxford John Fell Fund, United Kingdom	Global Challenges Research Fund Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2018	4Ds - Drought, Dzud, Dust and Desertification in Mngolia xx Invited Scientist Fellow	Concluded
2014 - 2018	4Ds - DROUGHT, DZUD, DUST, DESERTIFICATION in Mongolia - Invited Scientist Fellow Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan	Concluded
2014/01 - 2016/01	Environmental Hazards in Asian Drylands n/a Principal investigator University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom	University of Oxford John Fell Fund Concluded
2012 - 2013	Thesiger Oman International Desert Research Fellowship - Principal investigator Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
2010 - 2013	BRITISH ACADEMY - Climate Hazards in the Gobi Desert - Post-doc Fellow University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2015 - 2017	JOINT FACT FINDING - environmental and social evaluation for dispute resolution. IFC/WORLD BANK, Khan Bogd, Mongolia - Researcher	Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2011 - 2016	Collaboration - CHINESE ACADEMY of SCIENCE, Institute of Geography - Other Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Institute of Geology, China	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Thomas, David; Drake, Nick; Sternberg, Troy; Burrough, Sallie; Meyer, Marion. The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands. Princeton, United States: Princeton University Press. 2025. Published Sternberg, Troy; Toktomushev, Kemel; Ichinkhorloo, Byambabaatar. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. The Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan: Political, Social, Environmental and Cultural Contexts. United Kingdom: Routledge. 2021. Published • 10.4324/9781003097341 • Editor
Book chapter	Sternberg, Troy; Bayartogtokh Tserennadmid; Tugsbuyan Bayarbat. "Women herders’ changing role in Mongolian Pastoralism". In Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Well-Being and Economic Relations, edited by Ariell Ahearn. United Kingdom: White Horse Press, 2025. Accepted Sternberg, Troy. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "The Disenchantment of Mining and its Politics Machine: a Cautionary Tale from Mongolia". In Disenchanted Modernities: Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Socio-Ecological Changes and Local Responses, edited by Tobias Haller, Samuel Weissman, 80. Germany: Verlag, 2023. Published Pas, Annemiek; Haller, Tobias; Blanco-Gutiérrez, Irene; Sternberg, Troy; Meyfroidt, Patrick. "Alternative perspectives". In Drylands Facing Change, 236-252. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022. Published • 10.4324/9781003174486-17 de Pinho, Joana Roque; ole Neboo, Stanley Kutiti; Seenoi, Debra; García, Angela Kronenburg; Mayiani, Daniel Lepaiton; ole Mowuo, Lenaai; ole Mowuo, Matinkoi; et al. "Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown". In Drylands Facing Change, edited by Kronenburg García, Angela, 215-235. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022. Published • 10.4324/9781003174486-16 de Bruijn, Mirjam; Zhang, Qian; Abu-Kishk, Hama; Butt, Bilal; Hashimshony-Yaffe, Nurit; Sternberg, Troy; Pas, Annemiek. "Drylands connected". In Drylands Facing Change, edited by Kronenburg García, Angela, 193-211. Routledge, 2022. Published • 10.4324/9781003174486-14 Sternberg, Troy. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "The Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan". In The Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan: Political, Social, Environmental and Cultural Contexts, edited by Sternberg, Troy; Toktomushev, Kemel; Ichinkhorloo, Byambabaatar. Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2021. Published Sternberg, Troy; Rachel McDonnell; Stephen Fragaszy; Swathi Veeravalli. "Drought policy and management". In Water Science, Policy and Management: A Global Challenge.. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley, 2020. Published Sternberg, Troy. "China’s natural and constructed hazard regimes". In Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments, edited by Troy Sternberg. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017. Published Sternberg, Troy. "Water Towers: Security Risks in a Changing Climate". In Epicenters of Climate and Security: The New Geostrategic Landscape of the Anthropocene. Washington, D.C., United States: Center for Climate Security, 2017. Published Sternberg, Troy. "Drought and Extreme Climate Stress on Human-Environment Systems in the Gobi Desert Mongolia". In Vulnerability of Land Systems in Asia, 9-26. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. Published • 10.1002/9781118854945.ch2 Sternberg, Troy. "Chinese drought, wheat, and the Egyptian uprising: How a localized hazard became globalized". In The Arab Spring and Climate Change. Climate Change A Climate and Security Correlations Series, 2013. Published
Book review	Sternberg, Troy. "An alternate view of consumption and impact". Review of Journal Issue 25, 1 (2021): 7950. In press Sternberg, Troy. "Vegetation of Central Asia and Environs". Review of Vegetation of Central Asia and Environs (2019): https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/volume-39/issue-3/mrd.mm241/Vegetation-of-Central-Asia-and-Environs-Edited-by-Dilfuza-Egamberdieva/10.1659/mrd.mm241.full. Published
Conference paper	Sternberg, Troy. "Monitoring Grassland Dynamics in Mongolia". Paper presented in 21st International Grassland Congress / 8th International Rangeland Congress, Hohhot, 2008. Published
Edited book	Sternberg, Troy. Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Well-Being and Economic Relations. Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom: White Horse Press. 2025. Accepted Sternberg, Troy. Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies. MDPI. 2019. 10.3390/books978-3-03921-348-1 Sternberg, Troy. Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments. Routledge. 2017. 10.4324/9781315572413 Sternberg, Troy. Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands: Environment, Governance and Risk edited by Ariell Ahearn and Troy Sternberg with Allison Hahn. United Kingdom: White Horse Press. 2017. Published • Editor Sternberg, Troy. Modern pastoralism and conservation: old problems, new challenges. United Kingdom: White Horse Press. 2013. Published • Editor Sternberg, Troy. Changing deserts: Integrating people and their environment. Cambridge, United Kingdom: White Horse Press. 2012. Published • Editor
Journal article	Sternberg, Troy; McCarthy, Chris; Enkhjargal, Erdenebuyan. "Mongolia mining: licensed tenure or commons grabbing". International Journal of the Commons (2025): Submitted McCarthy, Chris; Banda, Lumbani Benedicto; Kachamba, Daud Jones; Emmanuel Junior, Zuza; Chisambi, Cornelius; Kumanga, Ndaona; Lawrence, Luciano; Sternberg, Troy. "Evaluating machine learning-based elephant recognition in complex African landscapes using drone imagery". Environmental Research Communications 6 11 (2024): 115035. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad9380. Published • 10.1088/2515-7620/ad9380 Tian, Ying; Ackermann, Kurt; McCarthy, Christopher; Sternberg, Troy; Purevtseren, Myagmartseren; Limuge, Che; Hagiwara, Katsuro; et al. "Seasonal Dynamics of the Land-Surface Characteristics in Arid Regions Retrieved by Optical and Microwave Satellite Data". Remote Sensing 16 17 (2024): 3143. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16173143. Published • 10.3390/rs16173143 McCarthy, Chris; Sternberg, Troy; Banda, Lumbani Benedicto. "Does Environmental Aid Make a Difference? Analyzing Its Impact in Developing Countries". Land 12 10 (2023): 1953. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12101953. Open access • Published • 10.3390/land12101953 McCarthy, Christopher; Konagaya, Yuki; Sternberg, Troy; Enkhjargal, Erdenebuyan; Hoshino, Buho. "The forgotten middle Silk Road: Historical caravan route geographies between Mongolia and Tibet". Historical Geography (2023): 1095-8614. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.jhg.2023.08.001 Sternberg, Troy; Tchoroev, Almaz; Toktomushev, Kemel. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "The role of mining in Kyrgyzstan's social acceptance of protest". Resources Policy 85 (2023): 103794. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103794. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103794 McCarthy, Christopher; Sternberg, Troy; Hoshino, Buho; Banfill, James; Enkhjargal, Erdenebuyan; Konagaya, Yuki; Phillips, Simon. "Preserving the Gobi: Identifying potential UNESCO world heritage in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 15 4 (2022): 500-517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2022.08.003. Published • 10.1016/j.japb.2022.08.003 Sternberg, Troy; Pinho, Joanna Roque de; Batjav, Batbuyan. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "Pastoral Khans: from Mongolian Steppe to African Savannah". Mongolian Journal of International Affairs 23 (2022): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjia.v23i1.1566. Open access • Published • 10.5564/mjia.v23i1.1566 Ahearn, Ariell; Sternberg, Troy. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "Ruins in the making: socio-spatial struggles over extraction and export in the Sino-Mongolian Borderlands". Eurasian Geography and Economics 64 7-8 (2022): 919-942. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2132971. Open access • Published • 10.1080/15387216.2022.2132971 Brassett, Justin; Akmadi, Moldir; Sternberg, Troy. "Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management". International Journal of Water Resources Development 39 3 (2022): 361-381. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2090905. Open access • Published • 10.1080/07900627.2022.2090905 Sternberg, Troy; Mayaud, Jerome R.; Ahearn, Ariell. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "Herd It in the Gobi: Deserting Pastoralism?". Land 11 6 (2022): 799. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11060799. Open access • Published • 10.3390/land11060799 Sternberg, Troy; Bolor-Erdene Battsengel; Dr Batbuyan Batjav; Sainbayar, Enkhbat. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "COVID-19 resilience in Mongolian pastoralist communities". Nomadic Peoples 21 1 (2021): 7943. Open access • Published De Boer, Tesse; Paltan, Homero; Sternberg, Troy; Wheeler, Kevin. "Evaluating Vulnerability of Central Asian Water Resources Under Uncertain Climate and Development Conditions: The case of the Ili-Balkhash Basin". Water (2021): Open access • Published Chatila, Hani; Amankwaa Godfred; Fischer, Christian; Sternberg, Troy. "From emergency to durable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) interventions: Insights from the protracted Syrian refugee situation in Lebanon". Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development (2021): Published Foggin, Marc; Lechner, Alex; Emslie-Smith, Matthew; Hughes, Alice; Sternberg, Troy; Dossani, Rafiq. "Belt & Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological impacts from large-scale infrastructure and investments in a global biodiversity hotspot with ¿y recommendations"". Consrevation Letters (2021): Published Sternberg, Troy. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "Conflict and contestation in Kyrgyz mining infrastructure". The Extractive Industries and Society 7 4 (2020): 1392-1400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.016. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.016 Sternberg, Troy; McCarthy, Chris; Hoshino, Buho. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "Does China’s Belt and Road Initiative Threaten Food Security in Central Asia?". Water 12 10 (2020): 2690. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12102690. 10.3390/w12102690 Lezak, Stephen; Ahearn, Ariell; McConnell, Fiona; Sternberg, Troy. "Frameworks for conflict mediation in international infrastructure development: A comparative overview and critical appraisal". Journal of Cleaner Production 239 (2019): 118099. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619329695. Published Sternberg, Troy; Ahearn, Ariell; McConnell, Fiona. "From conflict to a Community Development Agreement: a South Gobi solution". Community Development Journal (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsz018. Published • 10.1093/cdj/bsz018 Pravalie, Remus; Bandoc, Georgeta; Patriche, Cristian; Sternberg, Troy. "Recent changes in global drylands: Evidences from two major aridity databases". CATENA 178 (2019): 209-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.03.016. Published • 10.1016/j.catena.2019.03.016 Teo, Hoong; Lechner, Alex; Walton, Grant; Chan, Faith; Cheshmezangi, Ali; Tan-Mullins, May; Sternberg, Troy; Chan, Hing; Campos, Ahimsa. "Environmental Impacts of Infrastructure Development under the Belt and Road Initiative". Environments 6 6 (2019): 72. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/6/6/72. Open access • Published Westheimer, Natasha; Gilmont, Michael; Sternberg, Troy. "‘Hotel Middle East’: social shocks and adaptation in Jordan’s domestic water sector". Water International 44 4 (2019): 444-462. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508060.2019.1622277. Published Holguín, Leah R.; Sternberg, Troy. "A GIS based approach to Holocene hydrology and social connectivity in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia". Archaeological Research in Asia 15 (2018): 137-145. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226716300824. Published Xu, Shan; Zou, Bin; Shafi, Sedra; Sternberg, Troy. "A hybrid Grey-Markov/ LUR model for PM10 concentration prediction under future urban scenarios". Atmospheric Environment 187 (2018): 401-409. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231018303972. Published Sternberg, Troy. "Moderating Climate Hazard Risk through Cooperation in Asian Drylands". Land 7 1 (2018): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land7010022. Published • 10.3390/land7010022 Sternberg, Troy; Sofue, Yuki; Hoshino, Buho; Kai, Kenji; Demura, Yuta; Nduati, Eunice; Kondoh, Akihiko. "Satellite Monitoring of Vegetation Response to Precipitation and Dust Storm Outbreaks in Gobi Desert Regions". Land 7 1 (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/7/1/19. Published Sternberg, Troy; Edwards, Mona. "Desert Dust and Health: A Central Asian Review and Steppe Case Study". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14 11 (2017): 1342. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14111342. Published • 10.3390/ijerph14111342 Sternberg, Troy; Ahearn, Ariell; McConnell, Fiona. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "Central Asian ‘Characteristics’ on China’s New Silk Road: The Role of Landscape and the Politics of Infrastructure". Land 6 3 (2017): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land6030055. 10.3390/land6030055 Sternberg, Troy. "Investigating the presumed causal links between drought and dzud in Mongolia". Natural Hazards 92 S1 (2017): 27-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-017-2848-9. Published • 10.1007/s11069-017-2848-9 Sternberg, Troy. Corresponding author: Sternberg, Troy. "Investigating the presumed causal links between drought and dzud in Mongolia". Natural Hazards 92 S1 (2017): 27-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-017-2848-9. Published • 10.1007/s11069-017-2848-9 Fang, Xin; Zou, Bin; Liu, Xiaoping; Sternberg, Troy; Zhai, Liang. "Satellite-based ground PM2.5 estimation using timely structure adaptive modeling". Remote Sensing of Environment 186 (2016): 152-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.08.027. Published • 10.1016/j.rse.2016.08.027 Zou, Bin; Xu, Shan; Sternberg, Troy; Fang, Xin. "Effect of Land Use and Cover Change on Air Quality in Urban Sprawl". Sustainability 8 7 (2016): 677. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8070677. Published • 10.3390/su8070677 Sternberg, Troy; Chatty, Dawn. "Marginality, Climate and Resources in Pastoral Rangelands: Oman and Mongolia". Rangelands 38 3 (2016): 145-151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2016.03.001. Published • 10.1016/j.rala.2016.03.001 Sternberg, Troy; Paillou, Philippe. "Mapping potential shallow groundwater in the Gobi Desert using remote sensing: Lake Ulaan Nuur". Journal of Arid Environments 118 (2015): 21-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.02.020. Published • 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.02.020 Sternberg, Troy; Chatty, Dawn. "Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies". Forced Migraiton Review 49 (2015): https://www.fmreview.org/climatechange-disasters/chatty-sternberg. Published Sternberg, Troy. "Water megaprojects in deserts and drylands". International Journal of Water Resources Development 32 2 (2015): 301-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2015.1012660. Published • 10.1080/07900627.2015.1012660 Zou, Bin; Luo, Yanqing; Wan, Neng; Zheng, Zhong; Sternberg, Troy; Liao, Yilan. "Performance comparison of LUR and OK in PM2.5 concentration mapping: a multidimensional perspective". Scientific Reports 5 1 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep08698. Published • 10.1038/srep08698 Sternberg, Troy; Rueff, Henri; Middleton, Nick. "Contraction of the Gobi Desert, 2000-2012". Remote Sensing 7 2 (2015): 1346-1358. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs70201346. Published • 10.3390/rs70201346 Werrell, Caitlin E.; Femia, Francesco; Sternberg, Troy. "Did We See It Coming?: State Fragility, Climate Vulnerability, and the Uprisings in Syria and Egypt". SAIS Review of International Affairs 35 1 (2015): 29-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sais.2015.0002. 10.1353/sais.2015.0002 Middleton, Nick; Rueff, Henri; Sternberg, Troy; Batbuyan, Batjav; Thomas, David. "Explaining spatial variations in climate hazard impacts in western Mongolia". Landscape Ecology 30 1 (2014): 91-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-014-0091-2. Published • 10.1007/s10980-014-0091-2 Sternberg, Troy. "Desert boundaries: the once and future Gobi". The Geographical Journal 181 1 (2014): 61-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12071. Published • 10.1111/geoj.12071 Sternberg, Troy. "Transboundary hazard risk: the Gobi desert paradigm". Natural Hazards 72 2 (2014): 533-548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-013-1022-2. Published • 10.1007/s11069-013-1022-2 Femia, Francesco; Sternberg, Troy; Werrell, Caitlin E.. "Climate Hazards, Security, and the Uprising in Syria and Egypt". Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 16 1 (2014): 71. Published Sternberg, Troy; Batbuyan, B.. "Integrating the Hyogo Framework into Mongolia's disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy and management". International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 5 (2013): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2013.05.003. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2013.05.003 Sternberg, Troy. "Piospheres and Pastoralists: Vegetation and Degradation in Steppe Grasslands". Human Ecology 40 6 (2012): 811-820. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9539-7. Published • 10.1007/s10745-012-9539-7 Sternberg, Troy. "Chinese drought, bread and the Arab Spring". Applied Geography 34 (2012): 519-524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.02.004. Published • 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.02.004 Sternberg, Troy. "Regional drought has a global impact". Nature 472 7342 (2011): 169-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472169d. Published • 10.1038/472169d Sternberg, Troy; Viles, Heather; Cathersides, Alan. "Evaluating the role of ivy (Hedera helix) in moderating wall surface microclimates and contributing to the bioprotection of historic buildings". Building and Environment 46 2 (2011): 293-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.07.017. Published • 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.07.017 Sternberg, Troy; Tsolmon, Renchin; Middleton, Nicholas; Thomas, David. "Tracking desertification on the Mongolian steppe through NDVI and field-survey data". International Journal of Digital Earth 4 1 (2011): 50-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538940903506006. Published • 10.1080/17538940903506006 Viles, Heather; Sternberg, Troy; Cathersides, Alan. "Is Ivy Good or Bad for Historic Walls?". Journal of Architectural Conservation 17 2 (2011): 25-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13556207.2011.10785087. Published • 10.1080/13556207.2011.10785087 Sternberg, Troy; Viles, Heather; Cathersides, Alan; Edwards, Mona. "Dust particulate absorption by ivy (Hedera helix L) on historic walls in urban environments". Science of The Total Environment 409 1 (2010): 162-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.022. Published • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.022 Sternberg, Troy. "Unravelling Mongolia's Extreme Winter Disaster of 2010". Nomadic Peoples 14 1 (2010): 72-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/np.2010.140105. Published • 10.3167/np.2010.140105 Sternberg, Troy; Thomas, David; Middleton, Nick. "Drought dynamics on the Mongolian steppe, 1970-2006". International Journal of Climatology 31 12 (2010): 1823-1830. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.2195. Published • 10.1002/joc.2195 Sternberg, Troy; Thomas, David; Middleton, Nicholas. "Pressurised pastoralism in South Gobi, Mongolia: what is the role of drought?". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34 3 (2009): 364-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00348.x. Published • 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00348.x Sternberg, T.. "Environmental challenges in Mongolia's dryland pastoral landscape". Journal of Arid Environments 72 7 (2008): 1294-1304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.12.016. Published • 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.12.016 Tsolmon, R.; Ochirkhuyag, L.; Sternberg, T.. "Monitoring the source of trans-national dust storms in north east Asia". International Journal of Digital Earth 1 1 (2008): 119-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538940701782593. Published • 10.1080/17538940701782593 Sternberg, Troy; Perry, Gad; Britton, Carlton. "Grass Repellency to the Red Imported Fire Ant". Rangeland Ecology & Management 59 3 (2006): 330-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.2111/05-151r1.1. Published • 10.2111/05-151r1.1
Journal issue	Sternberg, Troy; Paillou, Philippe. "Advances in Paleohydrology Using Remote Sensing". Water (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/paleohydrology_remote_sensing. In press • Coeditor Sternberg, Troy; Shinoda, Masato; Nandintsetseg, Banzragch. "Multiple climate hazards in Eurasian drylands". Natural Hazards 92 1 (2018): https://link.springer.com/journal/11069/volumes-and-issues/92-1/supplement. Published • Coeditor
Online resource	Sternberg, Troy. Mongolian herders face Covid-19 with traditional calm.. 2021. Sternberg, Troy; Foggin, Marc; Lechner, Alex; Hughes, Alice; Emslie-Smith, Matthew; Dossani, Rafiq. Conservation Geopolitics: Envisioning the future of the ‘Belt & Road Initiative’ in the Mountains of Central Asia. 2020. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/42654/.
Thesis / Dissertation	Sternberg, Troy. "Nomadic Geography: Pastoral environments in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia". PhD, University of Oxford, 2009. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504018. Sternberg, Troy. "Grass Repellency to the Red Imported Fire Ant". Master, Texas Tech University College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, 2004.
Working paper	Sternberg, Troy. 2025. "Mega-mining impact in Mongolia’s pastoral commons. Tokai University Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability". https://www.tries.u-tokai.ac.jp/cow25jan15.html.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition	Sternberg, Troy. Thesiger's Deserts: Photography in the Pitt Rivers Collection.. 2012.
Program / Show	Joana Roque de Pinho; Sternberg, Troy; wainwright, Megan. 2023. oana Roque de Pinho; Wainwright, Megan. 2023. "Reflections on fieldwork in Mongolia - MYNA Project Photo-Podcast #1". MYNA Podcast 1. Sternberg, Troy. 2020. "Molecule that Made Us". H2O: the Molecule That Made Us: Water: the Molecule That Made Us. Public Broadcasting System, US.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/11/01	Mongolia mining: licensed tenure or commons grabbing	4th International Conference on Social Solidarity and the Commons ISCTE Centre for International Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/10/12	Director, English Academic Writing seminar - Osh State University. Teaching advanced students how to write academic publications in English.	Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan (Osh, Kyrgyzstan)
2024/10/10	Women in herding societies: directions from Mongolia	10th Anniversary Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
2024/05/18	Lecture to specialist audience of Mongolian scholars in Tokyo, Japan	Japanese Association of Mongolian Studies Chiba University (Chiba, Japan)
2023	Women herders’ changing role in Gobi pastoralism	International Unien of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences - IUAES. 5 year international congress, New Delhi, India Delhi University (New Delhi, India)
2023	Pastoral women's transition on the Mongolian Steppe	Desert Disorders seminar Northumbria University (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
2023	Social License to Protest - Mining in Kyrgyzstan	Engaging with the giant – Mega-infrastructure projects and local communities University of Bern, Switzerland (Bern, Switzerland)
2020/02/04	China's Belt and Road Initiative - a global perspective	Art of Neighborhoods: Border Dynamics, Natural Resources, and Mobility in Central Asia University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
2020/02/01	Gobi Framework project in Kyrgyzstan. Meeting challenges and progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.	National Strategic Institute, Kyrgyz government National Strategic Institute, Kyrgyz government
2020/01/31	Citizen Science in Kyrgyzstan	Post-Socialist Economic and Agrarian Transformation in Central Asia University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
2018/04	Central Asia in a global drylands perspective	Arid Lands: Environmental and social sustainability Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
2017/10	China's Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan	Director meeting University of Central Asia - Kazakhstan (Tekeli, Kazakhstan)
2017/10	China's Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan and Central Asia	Zhetysu Seven Rivers University, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan (Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan)
2017/10	CENTRAL ASIAN CHARACHTERISTICS on CHINA'S NEW SILK ROAD. China’s $1 trillion One Belt, One Road (OBOR) infrastructure project has significant landscape, socio-economic, and political implications in recipient countries. To date, investigation has focused on Chinese motivation and plans rather than OBOR impact in host nations. This talk examines the programme from the perspective of two Central Asian states—Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan—that are at the heart of OBOR.	China's Belt and Road Initiative impact on biodiversity, environments and society Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia
2017	ENVIRONMENTAL REGIME CHANGE in DESERTS	Environmental Change in the 21st Century Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan)
2016/04	CLIMATE HAZARDS in the GOBI DESERT	Oman Meteorological Administration (Muscat, Oman)
2015/08	Central Asia heritage in changing landscapes	Series of meetings, events, presentations and field work Eurasian National University - President (Astana/Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan)
2015/05	HERITAGE SCIENCE on the STEPPE - NEW TECHNIQUES FOR MEASUREMENT, ASSESSMENT and EVALUATION.	Special event EurAsia National University (Astana (Nur Sultan), Kazakhstan)
2014/10	KEYNOTE - 4D’s - drought, dzud, desertification and dust in Mongolia, Nagoya, Japan, October, 2014.	- Keynote Talk, 4D’s - drought, dzud, desertification and dust in Mongolia, Nagoya, Japan, October, 2014. nagoya university (Nagoya, Japan)
2014/09	Climate Hazard Transformation - Chinese Bread, Drought and the Arab Spring	British Science Association, Researcher of the Year, Social Science Award, 2014 British Science Association, (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2013	New Paradigms, Old Challenges - Contemporary Pastoralism in the Gobi Desert	International Union of Anthropology & Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020	Supervised three dissertations (2020), each leading academic journal article submission, two on Kazakhstan, one on Jordan. First paper accepted for pbulication. Supervisor	Geography (Master) University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2018 - 2020	Academic training in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan Fieldwork training for students, early career researchers, practioners and stakeholders Collaboration with partner universities and institutions in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Supervisor	Non-degree
2015 - 2020	Dissertation Supervision - Geography. Multiple students. MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management. D Phil (PhD) in Geography Supervisor	Geography (Master) University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/08 - Current	Academic writing workshop Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2023) Workshop (Co-organisor)
2023 - Current	Central Asian Network, University of Oxford (2023) Meeting (Co-organisor)
2023 - Current	Research Seminar - Lisbon Research Network Consortia of university researchers speaking at interdisciplinary event (2023) Meeting (Co-organisor)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - Current	The Oxford Desert Conference Deserts and drylands encompass 40% of the globe and shelter two billion people. Arid regions are home to the major religions, valued natural resources, scarcity, wealth and poverty, and face issues that dominate our time. Geopolitics, climate change, development, land degradation, population growth and conflict are issues that have relevance beyond any singular department or perspective. (2023) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2023 - Current	Academic Writing Workshop Kobe University, Japan (2023) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Kobe Daigaku, Japan
2022 - Current	Academic Research and Writing Summer School Mongoia National University, Mongolia (2022) Workshop (Co-organisor)
2021 - Current	Covid-19 and Pastoralists – International Virtual Forum Asia - East Africa (2021) Symposium (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/04 - Current	Oxford University - Kazakh National University ARID LANDS CONFERENCE (2018/04) Conference (Co-organisor)	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan United Nations Development Programme Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
2016/05 - Current	Knowledge Exchange ‘Living with Dryland Variability’. ESRC-University Oxford. Organised UK-wide event on dryland knowledge sharing across Asia and Africa. (2016/05) Workshop	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2012/02 - Current	FORD FOUNDATION WRITING WORKSHOP. Nairobi, Kenya. Preparation for Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples Journal (2012/02) Workshop (Other)	Ford Foundation China, China
2010/03 - Current	Oxford International Desert Conference series 2010-2020. Deserts and drylands encompass 40% of the globe and shelter two billion people. Arid regions are home to the major religions, valued natural resources, scarcity, wealth and poverty, and face issues that dominate our time. Geopolitics, climate change, development, land degradation, population growth and conflict are issues that have relevance beyond any singular department or perspective. The Oxford Desert Conference brings together academics and non-academics who research, work and live a (2010/03 - 2020/04) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2025/03/20 - 2025/03/21	The School of Geography and the Environment are pleased to announce the 7th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference, to be held on 20-21 March 2025. The world’s drylands are dynamic landscapes that host interesting cultures, livelihoods, climates and environments. The great size and diversity of deserts create remarkable research opportunities for academics, publics and practitioners. Recognised for biodiversity, mineral wealth, geopolitics and population, drylands are at the centre of today’s global agenda. Research and knowledge are integral (2025/03/20 - 2025/03/21) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2024/12/09 - 2024/12/11	Academic Writing Workshop for Early Career Researchers. Lecture and teaching to lecturers and early career researchers on academic writing and publishing in English. (2024/12/09 - 2034/12/11) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Hokkaido Iryo Daigaku, Japan Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan
2024/11/06 - 2024/11/08	Researchers Joana Roque de Pinho and Troy Sternberg, leaders of the Mystical Natures project, organised the final MYNA symposium, entitled ‘Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes’. The purpose of this event was to bring together the expertise of academics, Maasai pastoralists, NGO professionals and conservation specialists from four continents to reflect on the connections between environmental change and religious transformations in dryland pastoral communities. (2024/11/06 - 2024/11/08) Conference (Co-organisor)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
2020/03/15 - 2021	OXFORD INTERNATIONAL DESERT CONFERENCE. Organised a series of 5 Desert Conferences at the University of Oxford integrating interdisciplinary drylands researchers from Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America. The multi-day conferences resulted in two book publications and a special issue of the journal LAND. The conference series has been awarded funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the UK's Economic and Social Research Council. The conferece series started in 2010; the 2020 event has been postponed to 2021. (2020/03/15 - 2021) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	University of Oxford Social Sciences Division, United Kingdom University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2010 - 2013	OXFORD HAZARD FORUM series Highlights hazard research and action in the UK (2010 - 2013) Seminar (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Invited Speaker, Kobe University, Japan Symposium	Post Pandemic Societies in Inner Asia Kobe Daigaku, Japan
2023 - Current	Nomadic Ethics and Intercultural Dialogue: Past, Present and Future International Conference. International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations (IISNC), UNESCO, the Commission on Nomadic Peoples & Mongolian Anthropological Association. Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Conference	Nomadic Ethics and Intercultural Dialogue National University of Mongolia, Mongolia
2017/10 - Current	Presentation and meeting with academic directors of KIMEP Meeting	Meeting with Academic Directors KIMEP University, Kazakhstan
2024/07/22 - 2034/07/23	Director, English Academic Writing seminar - Meiji University, Tokyo teaching advanced students how to write academic publications in English. Seminar	English Academic Writing seminar Meiji Daigaku, Japan

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2014 - 2015	EU COST Action ES1104. 'Arid Land Restoration'. The ‘Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub’ is aimed to bring together the expertise, knowledge and information on vegetation establishment and management that exists in the EU and around the world. The hub focuses on knowledge and dissemination of dryland restoration techniques, methods, principles, key people and key organisations	Researcher, Short Term Scientific Mission participant

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2013/03 - Current	Workshop - Climate Change and Smallholders, North-South Project Bringing best practice from around the world to improve smallholders climate engagement Member	University of Bern / Swiss Development Corporation, Switzerland
2013 - Current	CENTER for CLIMATE and SECURITY. Advisory board member 2013 - present. The Center for Climate and Security (CCS), a non-partisan institute of the Council on Strategic Risks, has a team and distinguished Advisory Board of security and military experts. CCS envisions a climate-resilient world which recognizes that climate change threats to security are already significant, unprecedented and potentially existential, and acts to address those threats in a manner that is commensurate to their scale, consequence and probability. Advisor / Consultant	Center for Climate and Security, United States
2013/07 - 2023	Vice President, Commission on Nomadic Peoples The Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Its primary concerns are the current circumstances of all nomadic peoples around the world and their prospects. Its readership includes all those interested in nomadic peoples – scholars, researchers, planners and project administrators. It publishes Nomadic Peoples, an international journal published by the White Horse Press. President / Vice-president	International Union of Anthropologists and Ethnographers, Japan
2020 - 2022	Fostering Adaptive Governance and Resilience in Local Communities of Central Eurasia: from fragmented pasts to connected futures? Member	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom University of Kent, United Kingdom Durham University, United Kingdom
2017/10 - 2022	EU Cost Action CA16233 'DRYLANDS FACING CHANGE: interdisciplinary research on climate change, food insecurity, political instability.' The drylands surrounding Europe are among the most food insecure and politically unstable areas in the world. This includes African, Middle Eastern and Inner Asian countries, which are plagued by poverty and increasingly frequent and more extreme weather events and, inhabited by a population with little formal education, have up to now limited development potential. Member	European Union, Belgium
2015/01/10 - 2015/01/13	Organised workshop bringing together community institutions and civil society for rural development and climate adaptation. Coordinator	KRAPAVIS NGO, India

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023 - Current	Sharing academic writing with the world: Kyrgyzstan Summer School	University of Central Asia
2022 - Current	Mobilities and Socialities: COVID-19 in the Drylands	Bayreuth University
2017/10 - Current	Dushanbe Declaration 2017 \| Silk Roads in the Mountains of Central Asia	Aga Khan Foundation, University of Central Asia
2025/01/07 - 2025/01/11	Central Eurasian Studies Society and the ESCAS - European Society for Central Asian Studies	University of Lisbon
2020/01/27 - 2020/01/29	GCRF ‘Conflict Intersections’ Global Partnership Development Awards: Prevention and Resilience at the Intersections between Conflict, Fragility and Wider Development Challenges and Risks	UK Research and Innovation

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2015/12 - 2017/03	Lead environmental consultant and researcher on International Finance Corp/World Bank dispute resolution project for community engagement at the Oyu Tolgoi mega-mine in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Research Investigated mining impact on environment, water, land, livelihoods, culture. The project resolved the long-standing land use conflict between the mine and the community.	World Bank, United States

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021/01/01 - Current	DIRECTOR, WATER SCIENCE, POLICY & MANAGEMENT MSc Programme, School of Geography, University of Oxford. Our one-year full-time MSc course enables students to develop a theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded understanding of sustainable water management. This is the only interdisciplinary water MSc, taught by leading academics from across social and natural sciences, with cross-cutting themes in economics, climate and catchment processes, governance, water quality, water and health.	Geography (Master)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2019/04 - Current	'INTRDUCTION to SCIENCE' week. Organised teaching and training session for 27 top Kazakh postgraduate students at the School of Geography, University of Oxford. Teaching, writing, research design, lectures, tutorials, presentations drawn on the Oxford method.	Geography (Postgraduate Certificate)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2019 - 2021	RESEARCH SKILLS and DESIGN. Completed skills training for Masters students.	Geography (Master)
2020/12/07 - 2020/12/11	New techniques in geographical research with a focus on Central Asia and Mongolia.	Geography (Postgraduate Certificate)	Rakuno Gauken University, Japan
2020/10 - 2020/12	WATER COMPLEXITY in the MIDDLE EAST. As the most water-stressed area of the world the Middle East faces severe climate and environmental crises. In the immediate future water availability, access and quality will challenge livelihoods and society across the region. Changing climate parameters, evolving concepts of governance, growing populations, socio-economic forces and conflict threaten fragile states, human well-being and the physical world. The course examines the interaction of water, climate and society in the contemporary Middle East.	Geography (Magister)	University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2014/10/02 - 2020	Academic staff - Water, Science, Policy and Management taught Masters course at the School of Geography, University of Oxford. Work includes teaching, tutoring, research skills, guidance, examining 2019 to present. Responsibilities include admissions, ethics, risk assessment, references and outreach. Previous work includes teaching, tutoring, supervision and research field trips.	Geography (Magister)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom
2014/10 - 2019/12	WATER, CLIMATE AND SOCIETY in the MIDDLE EAST. As the most water-stressed area of the world the Middle East faces severe climate and environmental crises. In the immediate future water availability, access and quality will challenge livelihoods and society across the region. Changing climate parameters, evolving concepts of governance, growing populations, socio-economic forces and conflict threaten fragile states, human well-being and the physical world. The course repeated annually.	Geography (Master)	University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2007 - 2009	School of Geography, Undergraduate tutoring	Geography (Bachelor)	University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2016/05	Interview about how China's government shapes policy and perception of deserts from a political, not environmental, perspective. Based on years of engagement in the northern Chinese deserts, my insights were drawn from research trips undertaken with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As an expert the interview covered effectiveness, sustainability, scientific foundations of Chinese government programmes to construct a 'great green belt' of trees through the Gobi Desert.	New York Times

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2020/02/04 - Current	Kyrgzstan News	China's Belt and Road Initiative - a global perspective
2020/02/01 - Current	Kyrgyzstan in the context of China's Belt and Road Inititative - BRI. Project mediation model, mining, ecology issues in Central Asia.	Development challenges and perspectives in Kyrgyzstan in the context of BRI.
2020/02 - 2020/02	BBC News	Mongolian rural livelihoods, environmental change, sustainable herding, cashmere development
2019/11 - 2019/11	BBC Kyrgyz	Mining rehabilitation in Kyrgyzstan

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2025/01/15 - Current	Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (1464-3332 )	World Scientific
2013/07 - 2023	Nomadic Peoples (1752-2366)	White Horse Press

Distinctions

Award

2022	FCT Stimulus - Principal Investigator Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2020	The COVID-19 WORKING GROUP for Public Health and Social Sciences Research - COVID-19 in African and Asian Drylands, National Science Foundation, United States University of Colorado Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, United States
2020	MYSTICAL NATURES: A comparative study of religious-environmental dynamics among Inner Asian, African and North American dryland communities (Co-Principal Investigator) - FCT Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2020	UPSCALING COMMUNITY MEDIATION from Central Asia to Southeast Asia Global Challenges Research Fund, United Kingdom
2020	Designing COVID-19 policy for pastoralist communities in Mongolia UK Research and Innovation, United Kingdom
2018	ESRC-Global Challenges Research Fund - INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES UK Research and Innovation, United Kingdom
2016	ESRC Impact Accelerator Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom
2014	SOCIAL SCIENTIST of the YEAR - British Science Association British Science Association, United Kingdom
2014	JOHN FELL FUND Fellow University of Oxford John Fell Fund, United Kingdom
2012	THESIGER-OMAN International Desert Fellowship Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
2011	UK-CHINA Visiting Scholar Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China The British Academy, United Kingdom
2010	BRITISH ACADEMY Post Doctoral Fellowship The British Academy, United Kingdom
2006	Slawson Fellowship Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
2005	U.S. FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Fulbright Program, United States

Other distinction

2013	4Ds -DROUGHT, DZUD, DUST & DESERTIFICATION in MONGOLIA Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
2012	CHINESE ACADEMY of SCIENCES, Institute of Geography Partnership - Climate Hazards in the Gobi Desert Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, China