Socio-economic Tools for Integrated Conservation Planning in the Multi-Ethnic South Caucasus is the first project of CIVICS. After handing in an application to BMBF in early fall 2010, the research contract for the project could finally be signed in December 2011 link to full information..

Trip to Javakheti Local TV

 

Project Partners

The initiators of the project are Jan Barkmann (jbarkma(at)gwdg.de) and Johanna Schott from the Environmental and Resource Economics Group from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

The Caucasian main partners are

• Grigol (Gia) Abramia, International Center for Environmental Research (ICFER), Tbilisi (Georgia)
• Vakhtang Shelia, David-Aghmashenebeli Universitity (SDASU) and Georgian-American University (GAU), Tbilisi (Georgia)
• Vardan Urutuan, International Center for Agribusines Research and Education (ICARE), Erevan (Armenia)
• Vugar Babayev, Ganja Agribusiness Association (GABA), Ganja City (Azerbaijan)
• Emilia Nercissans, [www.ut.ac.ir/en Teheran University], Faculty of Social Sciences, Teheran (Iran)
• Nune Harutyunyan, The Regional Environmental Center for the Caucasus (REC-Caucasus), Tbilisi (Georgia)

• Project Scientists

  There are a number South Caucasus project scientists adding to the data and analyis of the project.

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikoloz Mikava (Georgian Technical University (GTU) Georgia, Tbilisi; translations, "backoffice", qualitative resaearch)
  • Dr. Gizo Gogichaishvili (State Hydrometeorological Department of Georgia, Ministry of Nature Protection and Natural Resources Georgia; Lagodekhi case study)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maia Geliashvili (Georgia, Samtskhe-Javakheti State Teaching University)
  • Mr. Davit Shelia (Georgia, Lagodekhi case study)
  • Dr. Susanna Hakobyan (Head of Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Hydroecology and Ichthyology, Scientific Center for Zoology and Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, 0014 Armenia; Lake Arpi case study)
  • Mr. Nizami Ibrahimli (GABA, Ganca, Azerbeijan, Zaqatala case study)
  • Mr. Jafar (Azerbeijan, Zaqatala case study)

  In summer 2012 we handed over administrative project coordination for the German side from Dr. Johanna Schott to Talin Kalatas. Talin has chosen persue her PhD work within the frame of the project. In addition to project coordination, she is most directly involved in the design of the Choice Experiments carried out in the four case study areas. Having carried out her M.S. study already in Armenia, she is specifically involved in the empirical work in the Lake Arpi region.

ICFER participated in USDA/IRD/ICFER funded project on: Educational Movie on the Methods of  Tomato Farming.