Haakon Lein

Professor

Department of Geography Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

haakon.lein@ntnu.no +47 73591913 +47 91897634

Bygg 7, 7589, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1

haakon.lein@ntnu.no

My current research interests are related to rural livelihoods, natural resource management, especially water and biodiversity, as well as climate change and natural hazards. I have mainly worked in Bangladesh, China (Xinjiang), Tanzania and Uganda.

Scientific, academic and artistic work

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Journal publications

Lujala, Päivi; Lein, Haakon. (2020) The role of personal experiences in Norwegian perceptions of climate change. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 74 (3).
Räsänen, Tuomas Aleksi; Kauppinen, Vera; Juhola, Sirkku; Setten, Gunhild; Lein, Haakon. (2020) Configurations of community in flood risk management. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 74 (3).
Räsänen, Tuomas Aleksi; Lein, Haakon; Bird, Deanne; Setten, Gunhild. (2020) Conceptualising community in disaster risk management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. vol. 45.
Scherzer, Sabrina Stefanie Claudia; Berg, Nina Irene Gunnerud; Lein, Haakon; Setten, Gunhild. (2020) The many faces of local community: Exploring lay conceptualizations of the Norwegian lokalsamfunn. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 74 (3).
Setten, Gunhild; Lein, Haakon. (2019) 'We draw on what we know anyway': The meaning and role of local knowledge in natural hazard management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. vol. 38.
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot; Benjaminsen, Tor A; Cavanagh, Connor Joseph; Lein, Haakon. (2019) Conservation: beyond population growth. Science. vol. 365 (6449).
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot; Lein, Haakon. (2019) "Fencing is our last stronghold before we lose it all." A political ecology of fencing around the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Land Use Policy. vol. 87.
Bjerkli, Camilla Louise; Flemsæter, Frode; Lein, Haakon; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild; Aasetre, Jørund. (2017) Integrering gjennom friluftsliv?. Plan: Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling.
Kulindwa, Kassim; Lein, Haakon; Hepelwa, Aloyce; Mshale, Baruani. (2016) Anthropogenic drivers of forest change in Miombo ecosystems. Tanzania Economic Review. vol. 6 (1&2).
Yuling, Chen; Lein, Haakon; Chen, Xi. (2016) Water conflicts in Hetian District, Xinjiang, during the Republic of China period. Water History. vol. 8 (2).
Lujala, Päivi; Lein, Haakon; Rød, Jan Ketil. (2015) Climate change, natural hazards, and risk perception: the role of proximity and personal experience. Local Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. vol. 20 (4).
Parsizadeh, F.; Ibrion, Mihaela; Mokhtari, Mohammad; Lein, Haakon; Nadim, Farrokh. (2015) Bam 2003 earthquake disaster: On the earthquake risk perception, resilience and earthquake culture – Cultural beliefs and cultural landscape of Qanats, gardens of Khorma trees and Argh-e Bam. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. vol. 14 (4).
Lujala, Päivi; Lein, Haakon; Rosvoldaune, Rita. (2014) Quantifying vulnerability to flooding induced by climate change: The case of Verdal, Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 68 (1).
Rød, Jan Ketil; Berthling, Ivar Thoralf; Lein, Haakon; Lujala, Paivi; Vatne, Geir; Bye, Linda Marie. (2012) Integrated vulnerability mapping for wards in Mid-Norway. Local Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. vol. 17 (6-7).
Shen, Yuling; Lein, Haakon. (2010) Treating water as an economic good: policies and practices in irrigation agriculture in Xinjiang, China. Geographical Journal. vol. 176 (2).
Lein, Haakon. (2009) The poorest and most vulnerable? On hazards, livelihoods and labelling of riverine communities in Bangladesh. Singapore journal of tropical geography. vol. 30 (1).
Lein, Haakon; Tagseth, Mattias. (2009) Tanzanian water policy reforms—between principles and practical applications. Water Policy. vol. 11 (2).
Shen, Yuling; Lein, Haakon. (2005) Land and water resources management problems in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 59 (3).
Lein, Haakon. (2004) Managing the water of kilimanjaro: irrigation, peasants and hydropower development. GeoJournal. vol. 61.
Lein, Haakon. (2000) Hazards and �forced� migration in Bangladesh. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 53 (3).
Lein, Haakon. (1993) Floods and agricultural change. Some observations from Bangladesh 1986-90. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift.

Books

Bye, Linda Marie; Lein, Haakon; Rød, Jan Ketil. (2013) Mot en farligere fremtid? Om klimaendringer, sårbarhet og tilpasning i Norge. Akademika forlag. 2013. ISBN 978-82-321-0186-3.
Hemson, David; Kulindwa, Kassim; Lein, Haakon; Mascarenhas, Adolfo. (2008) Poverty and Water. Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship. Zed Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-84277-962-0.

Part of book/report

Lein, Haakon. (2020) Bekymret men ikke redd? Norske holdninger til klimaendringer. Innføring i miljø- og ressursgeografi.
Lein, Haakon; Nyahongo, Julius William; Ntalwila, Janemary; Mwakatobe, Angela; Kideghesho, Jafari Ramadhani; Runyoro, Victor. (2017) Human populations and livelihoods. Northern Serengeti Road Ecology.
Ntalwila, Janemary; Mwakatobe, Angela; Kideghesho, Jafari Ramadhani; Nyahongo, Julius William; Runyoro, Victor; Lein, Haakon. (2017) Human-wildlife interactions. Northern Serengeti Road Ecology.
Nyahongo, Julius William; Ntalwila, Janemary; Mwakatobe, Angela; Runyoro, Victor; Kideghesho, Jafari Ramadhani; Lein, Haakon. (2017) Perception of stakeholders. Northern Serengeti Road Ecology.
Lein, Haakon. (2014) The reemergence of environmental causation in migration studies and its relevance for Bangladesh. Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change.
Lein, Haakon. (2013) Om klimaendringer, samfunn og naturkatastrofer i et globalt perspektiv. Mot en farligere fremtid? Om klimaendringer, sårbarhet og tilpasning i Norge.
Lein, Haakon; Jørgensen, Stig Halvard; Lujala, Paivi; Rød, Jan Ketil. (2013) Klima i endring - hjem i fare? Holdninger til klimaendringer og naturfare som trussel mot hus og hjem i Norge. Hus, hjem og sted. Geografiske perspektiver på vår samtid.
Lujala, Paivi; Bye, Linda Marie; Lein, Haakon; Rosvoldaune, Rita. (2013) Kartlegging av klimarelatert sårbarhet på lokalt nivå. Eksemplet Verdal. Mot en farligere fremtid? Om klimaendringer, sårbarhet og tilpasning i Norge.
Tagseth, Mattias; Lein, Haakon. (2010) Competing Models of Water Resource Management and Their Implications Using the Example of Pangani River Basin in Tanzania. Shared waters, shared opportunities.Hydropolitics in East Africa.
Kulindwa, Kassim; Lein, Haakon. (2008) Water and Poverty: the inextricable link. Poverty and Water. Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship.
Lein, Haakon. (2008) Water, Agricultural Development and Poverty in Bangladesh. Poverty and Water. Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship.
Lein, Haakon. (2002) Migration, Irrigation and Land Use Changes in the Lowlands of Kilimanjaro,Tanzania. Water resources management. The case of Pangani River Basin: Issues and Approaches.

Report/dissertation

Scherzer, Sabrina; Setten, Gunhild; Lein, Haakon; Lujala, Päivi; Rød, Jan Ketil. (2019) Climate change and natural hazards: the geography of community resilience in Norway. 2019. ISBN 978-82-993127-4-5.
Lein, Haakon; Shen, Yuling. (2006) The disappearance of the Karez of Turfan. Report from the project 'Harvest from wasteland. Land people and water management reforms in the drylands of Xinjiang'. 2006. Acta Geographica - Trondheim (Series A,no15).

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