Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ilkhom Soliev

Position:
Head of the Chair in Environmental Sociology
Director, Social Learning & Environmental Governance (SLEG) Lab

Reichardtstraße 6
Room 01.1
Tel. +49 345 55 24 177
Email: ilkhom.soliev@soziologie.uni-halle.de
ilkhom.soliev@zirs.uni-halle.de

Research interests

• Environmental social sciences, resource governance, institutional economics
• Path dependence and transformations towards equitability and sustainability
• Change in values, behavior, norms in relation to nature, biodiversity, climate, forests, transboundary waters, groundwater
• Commons, property rights, collective action
• Institutional-discourse analysis, experimental surveys, experiential behavioral games for sustainability

• Working with the International Association for the Study of the Commons
• Earth System Governance Research Fellow – Taskforce on the Governance of Nature and Biodiversity
• Visiting Scholar at the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University
• Policy and governance expert at the OSCE Capacity Building of Young Researchers from Central Asia and Afghanistan in Water Policy Studies
• Founding member of the Interdisciplinary Network on the Study of the Rights of Nature

Research projects

• Horizon Europe PLANET4B: understanding Plural values, intersectionality, Leverage points, Attitudes, Norms, behaviour and social lEarning in Transformation for Biodiversity decision making
• The future of the Rights of Nature: an interdisciplinary scoping analysis (Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom
• Scaling up experiential learning tools for sustainable water governance in India
• SUSADICA: Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia
• Tailoring benefit sharing for sustainability of global environmental commons
• Benefit sharing in transboundary water governance

Curriculum Vitae

Educational background

Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles

Gilbert, J., Soliev, I., Robertson, A., Vermeylen, S., Williams, N.W., Grabowski, R.C. (2023). Understanding the Rights of Nature: working together across and beyond disciplines. Human Ecology doi/URL.

Zolyomi, A., Franklin, A., Smith, B., Soliev, I. (2023). Ecosystem services as the silver bullet? A systematic review of how ecosystem services assessments impact biodiversity prioritisation in policy. Earth System Governance 16: 100178, doi/URL.

Falk, T., Zhang, W., Meinzen-Dick, R., Bartles, L., Sanil, R., Priyadarshini, P., Soliev, I. (2023). Games for experiential learning: Triggering collective changes in commons management. Ecology and Society 28(1): 30, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Janssen, M.A., Theesfeld, I., Pritchard, C., Pirscher, F., Lee, A. (2022). Erratum: Channeling environmentalism into climate policy: An experimental study of Fridays for Future participants from Germany (2021 Env. Res. Lett. 16: 114035). Environmental Research Letters 17: 049601, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Janssen, M.A., Theesfeld, I., Pritchard, C., Pirscher, F., Lee, A. (2021). Channeling environmentalism into climate policy: An experimental study of Fridays for Future participants from Germany. Environmental Research Letters 16: 114035, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I., Abert, E., Schramm, W. (2021). Benefit sharing and conflict transformation: Insights for and from REDD+ forest governance in sub-Saharan Africa. Forest Policy and Economics 133: 102623, doi/URL.

Adefila, A., Arrobbio, O., Brown, G., Robinson, Z., Spolander, G., Soliev, I., Willers, B., Morini, L., Padovan, D., Wimpenny, K.(2021). Ecologized collaborative online international learning: Tackling wicked sustainability problems through education for sustainable development. Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 23(1): 41-57, doi/URL.

Knorr, H., Theesfeld, I., Soliev, I. (2021). License to drill: Typology of groundwater use regulations in agriculture of Uzbekistan. International Journal of Water Resources Development, doi/URL.

Niyazmetov, D., Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2021). Ordered to volunteer? Institutional compatibility assessment of establishing agricultural cooperatives in Uzbekistan. Land Use Policy 108: 105538, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2020). Benefit sharing for solving transboundary commons dilemma in Central Asia. International Journal of the Commons 14(1): 61-77, doi/URL.

Bunkus, R., Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2020). Density of resident farmers and rural inhabitants’ relationship to agriculture: operationalizing complex social interactions with a structural equation model. Agriculture and Human Values 37(1): 47-63, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Wegerich, K., Akramova, I., Mukhamedova, N. (2018). Balancing the discussion of benefit sharing in transboundary water governance: stressing the long-term costs in an empirical example from Central Asia. International Journal of Water Governance 6(2): 19–42, doi/URL.

Kulmatov, R., Groll, M., Rasulov, A., Soliev, I., Romic, M. (2018). Status quo and present challenges of the sustainable use and management of water and land resources in Central Asian irrigation zones – The example of the Navoi region (Uzbekistan). Quaternary International 464(Part B): 396-410, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2017). Reframing for sustainability: exploring transformative power of benefit sharing. Sustainability 9(8): 1486, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I., Wegerich, K., Platonov, A. (2017). Dealing with “baggage” in riparian relationship on water allocation: a longitudinal comparative study from the Ferghana Valley. Ecological Economics 142: 148-162, doi/URL.

Wegerich, K., Soliev, I., Akramova, I. (2016). Dynamics of water reallocation and cost implications in the transboundary setting of Ferghana Province. Central Asian Survey 35(1): 38-60, doi/URL.

Wegerich, K., Van Rooijen, D., Soliev, I., Mukhamedova, N. (2015). Water security in the Syr Darya Basin. Water 7(9): 4657-4684, doi/URL.

Soliev, I., Wegerich, K., Kazbekov, J. (2015). The costs of benefit sharing: historical and institutional analysis of shared water development in the Ferghana Valley, the Syr Darya Basin. Water 7(6): 2728-2752, doi/URL.

Regional peer-reviewed publications – OSCE Capacity Building of Young Researchers from Central Asia and Afghanistan

Hamdard, M.H., Soliev, I., Rasouli, H., Kløve, B., Belhassan, K. (2022). Groundwater quality assessment in Chak Karstic Sedimentary Basin, Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Central Asian Journal of Water Research 8(2), 110–127, doi/URL.

Hamdard, M.H., Soliev, I., Xiong, L., Klöve, B. (2020). Drinking water quality assessment and governance in Kabul: A case study from a district with high migration and underdeveloped infrastructure. Central Asian Journal of Water Research 6(1): 66-81, doi/URL.

Niyazmetov, D., Soliev, I., Rudenko, I. (2019). State-facilitated bottom up in agricultural water governance and sustainability of solutions to recurring water stress: a case study from smallholders’ perspective in Uzbekistan. Central Asian Journal of Water Research 5(1): 42-57, doi/URL.

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Fadeeva, O., Soliev, I. (2020). Institutional analysis of land tenure system in post-socialist Russia: actors, rules, and land use. In M. Frühauf et al. (eds) KULUNDA: Climate Smart Agriculture. Innovations in Landscape Research. Chapter 18. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. doi/URL.

Other publications

Soliev, I. (2023). One hundred ways to transform biodiversity prioritisation in individual, community, and institutional decision making. PLANET4B Research Brief (Project 101082212). Brussels: European Research Executive Agency.

Soliev, I., Franklin, A., Zolyomi, A., Smith, B. & Brown, G. (2023). Directory of key methods most suitable for biodiversity decision-making contexts. (Report No D2.1). Project 101082212— PLANET4B. Brussels: European Research Executive Agency.

Soliev, I., Podlaszewska, A., Saydaliev, Z. & Wähler, T. (2023). Urban youth, intersectionality, and nature in Germany. In: Methodological framework for intersectionality analysis. (Report No D1.3). Anita Thaler & Sandra Karner (eds.). Project 101082212 — PLANET4B. Brussels: European Research Executive Agency, chapter 4.3, pp. 31–36.

Schleiffer, M., Smith, B., Frick, R., Bredin, Y., Sabir, G.,Udall, D., Pataki, G., Cooke, G., Singsaas, F., Soliev, I., Czett, C., Bonetti, M., Villa, M., Fitzka, L., Loučková, B., Mendes, V. & Home, R. (2023). Report on biodiversity and related concepts perceptions. (Report No D1.1). Project 101082212 —PLANET4B. Brussels: European Research Executive Agency.

Haller, T. Soliev, I. (2023). Commons and Policy: Compilation of Inputs and Reflections – IASC Europe and CIS Colloquium Series 2022 (1.0). IASC Europe & CIS Colloquium Series on Commons and Policy, Bern, Switzerland. doi/URL.

Gilbert, J. Grabowski, R., Vermeylen, S., Robertson, A., Soliev, I., Williams, N.W., Schreiber, M., Zarzouki, Ch. (2022). The future of the Rights of Nature: An interdisciplinary scoping analysis. Report of the international collaborative project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (Grant Ref: AH/V00574X/1) Where Next? Scoping Future Arts and Humanities Led Research. URL.

Falk, T., Schüpf, D., Zhang, W., Soliev, I. (2021). A behavioral perspective on improving water governance in India. IFPRI Research Blog. URL.

Falk, T., Schüpf, D., Zhang, W., Soliev, I. (2021). Understanding behavioral change for improved water governance: Reflecting on ongoing development interventions in India. Blog post of the IASC Europe & CIS. URL.

Conference and workshop contributions (invited/selected upon peer-review)

Soliev, I., Moder, F., Janssen, M. (2022). Social learning for sustainable groundwater governance with an online game: lessons from a pilot study in India and Spain. Presentation at the International Conference “Groundwater, key to the Sustainable Development Goals” on 18-20 May 2022, organized by IAH-CFH, UNESCO-IHP, The French Water Partnership, under the patronage of the French National Commission for UNESCO and with the support of the Ministry for Environment, Seine-Normandy Water Agency, and Sorbonne University.

Soliev, I. (2021). Benefit sharing for facilitating equitable and sustainable forest governance. Presentation at the IASC Forest Commons Conference on 13-17 September 2021 as part of the XVIII Biennial IASC-Conference “Our Commons Future”, organized by Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, US.

Soliev, I. (2021). One hundred years of commons: evolution of institutions governing land and water. Presentation at the IASC Land Commons Conference on 13-17 September 2021 as part of the XVIII Biennial IASC-Conference “Our Commons Future”, organized by Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, US.

Soliev, I. (2021). Understanding “deep green” diversity and response to “benefit sharing” framing in boosting support for climate action: A study of Fridays for Future participants from Germany. Presentation at the Earth System Governance Conference on 7-9th September Bratislava, Slovakia.

Meinzen-Dick, R., Falk, T., Zhang, W., Priyadarshini, P., Soliev, I. (2021). Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management. Conference paper / Organized symposium presented at the 31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 17-31st August, online.

Soliev, I. (2021). Discussant at the Organized Symposium “Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management” with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Thomas Falk, Wei Zhang, Pratiti Priyadarshini. 31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 17-31st August, online.

Assembayeva, M., Kapsalyamova, Zh., Soliev, I., Klöve, B. (2021). Benefits and costs of transboundary water-energy cooperation: Assessing potential impacts of Kambar ata-1 hydropower plant in Central Asia. Paper presented at the IASC Water Commons Conference on 19-21 May 2021 as part of the XVIII Biennial IASC-Conference “Our Commons Future”, organized by Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, US.

Theesfeld, I., Soliev, I., Bunkus, R. (2020). Social dimensions of agricultural land transactions in Germany: an analysis with a Structural Equation Model. Paper presented at the GEWISOLA 2020 Conference “Herausforderungen für die ländliche Entwicklung – Wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven”, 23rd-25th September, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Soliev, I. (2019). Framing (order) effects to boost public support for climate action. Designing a survey experiment. Collaborative research presented at the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment of Arizona State University as part of the Visiting Fellowship, 30th September, Tempe AZ, USA.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2019). Governance of linkages via benefit-sharing: Intra- and inter-sector options for transboundary waters in Central Asia. Paper presented at the XVII Biennial IASC-Conference “In Defense of the Commons: Challenges, Innovation, and Action”, 1-5th July, Lima, Peru.

Soliev, I. (2018). Toward sustainable transformations in a complex world: Theory building based on Meadows’ leverage points and Williamson’s transaction costs economics. Paper presented at the Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance, 5-8th November, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Soliev, I., Schramm, W., Theesfeld, I. (2018). Identifying sustainable configurations with shared benefits in forest governance. Paper presented at the Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance, 5-8th November, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Soliev, I. (2018). Balancing the discussion of benefit sharing in transboundary water governance: stressing the long-term costs in an empirical example from Central Asia. Presentation of research findings on application of benefit sharing in international water governance at the Roundtable “Equitable Benefit Sharing and Water Law”, organized by the Strathclyde University Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, 24th April, Glasgow, Scotland.

Soliev, I. (2017). Setting the collaborative priorities right: Toward sustainable benefit-sharing solutions in food-agriculture-environment nexus. Paper published in the proceedings of the International Conference on “Integrated Innovative Development of Zarafshan Region: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects”, 26-27th October, Navoi, Uzbekistan: IDZ, pp. 277-283.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2017). Power of mutual-gains approach to reallocate for sustainability of global environmental commons. Paper presented at the Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, 9-11th October, Lund, Sweden.

Soliev, I., Schramm, W., Theesfeld, I. (2017). What is special about benefit sharing in REDD+? Paper presented at the IUFRO 8.01.02 Landscape Ecology Conference “The Green-Blue Nexus: Forests, Landscapes and Services,” 24-29th September, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Shenhav, R., Xenarios, S., Soliev, I., Domullodzhanov, D., Akramova, I., Mukhamedova, N. (2017). The water, energy and agriculture nexus – examples from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Good Governance and Economic Diversification in Resource Rich Economies, 17-19th August, Astana, Kazakhstan: Nazarbaev University, pp. 1-12.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2017). Benefit Sharing as an approach to cope with challenges of global commons. Paper presented at the XVI Biennial IASC-Conference “Practicing the Commons: Self-Governance, Cooperation, and Institutional Change,” 10-14th July, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Soliev, I., Theesfeld, I. (2017). Tailoring benefit sharing for sustainability of global environmental commons: revisiting incentives and systematizing discrepancies. Paper presented at the 12th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) 2017, 20-23rd June, Budapest, Hungary.

Soliev, I., Wegerich K., Kazbekov, J. (2016). Assessing benefit sharing as a tool of water diplomacy: lessons from water-sharing negotiations in the Ferghana Valley, the Syr Darya Basin. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research, 6-9th June, Kyoto, Japan.

Soliev, I., Wegerich, K., Kazbekov, J. (2016). Long-term dynamics of transboundary institutions governing water and land – evidence of shifts in benefit sharing within the Ferghana Valley. Paper presented at the IAAE Inter-Conference Symposium, Agricultural Transitions along the Silk Road – Restructuring, Resources and Trade in the Central Asia Region, 4-6th April, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Soliev, I. (2015). Visualizing the findings of the paper “The costs of benefit sharing: the case of the Ferghana Valley, the Syr Darya Basin”. Paper presented at the In-Service ICT Training for Environmental Professionals (ISEPEI) – Bridging ICTs and the Environment: Making Information Talk and Technologies Work for Water Security, organized by Central European University (CEU), UNEP, UNOOSA, Google, Esri, GWP, 6-10th July, Budapest, Hungary.

Soliev, I. (2015). The costs of benefit sharing: historical and institutional analysis of shared water development in the Ferghana Valley, the Syr Darya Basin. Paper presented at the 15th Biannual Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, 25-29th May, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Soliev, I. (2014). Examining institutional path dependency in shared water management in the Ferghana Valley, the Syr Darya Basin. Paper presented at the Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation in Central Asia, organized by IAMO, 23-26th November, Halle, Germany.

Soliev, I., Kulmatov, R. (2013). The modern transboundary problems of the Amu Darya River. Paper presented at the World Water Week 2013, organized by SIWI, 1-6th September, Stockholm, Sweden.

Academic services

Review activities

Environmental Science and Policy
International Journal of the Commons
Forest Policy and Economics
Ecological Economics
Cities

Awards

Teaching

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

National University of Uzbekistan

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Technical University of Berlin

Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Construction

Memberships