Aklilu Amsalu

 

 Full Name Aklilu Amsalu Taye
Tel No. 251 11239730 (0ffice), 251911604302 (cell)
Office Location (address) AAU Main Campus (Sidist Kilo), CSS Building, NCR, 2nd Floor , Office No: 2006
Research Interest Natural resources management; Land management and governance; Climate change adaptation and policy
Education Environmental Management: PhD (Wageningen University, the Netherlands, Sept 2006); MA (AAU, Ethiopia, July 2000); BA (AAU, Ethiopia, July 1997)
List of Recent Publications
  • A. Timko, A. Amsalu, E. Acheampong and M.K. Teferi (2014). Local Perceptions about the Effects of Jatropha (Jatropha curcas) and Castor (Ricinus communis) Plantations on Households in Ghana and Ethiopia. Sustainability 2014, 6, 7224-7241; doi:10.3390/su6107224.
  • Belay, S., Amsalu, A. and Abebe, E. (2014) Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Awash National Park, Ethiopia: Impact of Decentralization on the Use and Management of Resources. Open Journal of Ecology, 4, 950-960. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oje.2014.415079
  • Zewdu Eshetu, Belay Simane, Gebeyehu Tebeje, Workneh Negatu, Aklilu Amsalu, Abeje Berhanu, Neil BirdBryn WelhamandNella Canales Trujillo (2014). Climate finance in Ethiopia. Research Report. Overseas Development Institute. London.
  • Lindsey Jones; Eva Ludi; Aklilu Amsalu; Luis Artur; Matthew Bunce; Shirley Matheson; William Muhumuza and Daniel Zacarias (2013). The political economy of local adaptation planning: Exploring barriers to Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making in three districts in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique. London: Overseas Development Institute.
  • Aklilu Amsalu and Desalegn Wana (2013). Climate change impacts and local coping strategies among pastoral women: Cases from the Southern Lowlands of Ethiopia. Book Chapter. Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Addis Ababa.
  • Solomon Belay, Aklilu Amsalu and Eyualem Abebe (2013). Awash National Park, Ethiopia: use policy, ethnic conflict and sustainable resources conservation in the context of decentralization. African Journal of Ecology, Vol 51 (1): 122 – 129.
  • Aklilu Amsalu and Eva Ludi (2012). Towards a climate resilient development planning in Ethiopia: the case of Gemechis Woreda in Oromia Region. ACCRA Research Report.
  • de Graaff, A. Aklilu, M. Ouessar, S. Asins-Velis, A. Kessler (2013).The development of soil and water conservation policies and practices in five selected countries from 1960 to 2010. Land Use Policy 32: 165– 174.
  • Tegegne Sishaw Emiru and Aklilu Amsalu Taye (2012). Land use/cover dynamics in lowland Ethiopia since 1957: the case of Mandura district, Benshangul-Gumuz Regional State. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, Vol 2(8): 36 – 49.
  • Abebe Beyene, Yared Kassahun, Taffere Addis, Fassil Assefa, Aklilu Amsalu, Worku Legesse, Helut Kloos and Ludwig Triest (2012). The impact of traditional coffee processing on river water quality in Ethiopia and the urgency of adopting sound environmental practices. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol 184, pp 7053 – 7063.
  • Alebachew Adem and Aklilu Amsalu (2012). Climate Change in the Southern Lowlands of Ethiopia: Local Level Evidences, Impacts and Adaptation Responses. Accepted for publication in the Ethiopian Journal of Development Research Vol.34, No.1.
  • Aklilu Amsalu (2012). Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger in Ethiopia: A Review of development strategies, achievements, and challenges in relation with MDG1. NCCR North-South Dialogue 45. Bern, Switzerland: NCCR North-South.
  • Aklilu Amsalu, with Eva Ludi (2010). The effects of global coffee price changes on rural livelihoods and natural resources management in Ethiopia: a case study from Jimma area. NCCR North-South Dialogue, No. 20. Bern, Switzerland, NCCR North-South.
  • Yared Kassahun, Tesfu Kebede, Fassil Assefa, and Aklilu Amsalu (2010). Environmental impact of coffee processing effluent on the ecological integrity of rivers found in Gomma Woreda of Jimma Zone.  Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology 10 (2-4): 259-270.
  • Aklilu Amsalu and Alebachew Adem (2009). Assessment of climate change induced hazards, impacts and responses in the southern lowlands of Ethiopia. FSS Research Report No.4.
  • de Graaff, A. Aklilu, F. Bodnar, A. Kessler, H. Posthumus and A. Tenge (2008). Adoption of soil and water conservation measures. Applied Geography 28, 271– 280
  • Aklilu Amsalu, Leo Stroosnijder, Jan de Graaff (2007). Long-term dynamics in land resource use and the driving forces in the Beressa watershed, highlands of Ethiopia. Journal of Environmental Management, 83 (4): 448 – 459.
  • Aklilu Amsalu and Jan de Graaff (2007) Determinants of adoption and continued use of stone terraces for soil and water conservation in an Ethiopian highland watershed Ecological Economics, 61(2-3): 294 – 302.
  • Aklilu Amsalu and Jan de Graaff (2006). Farmers’ views of soil erosion problems and their conservation knowledge in Beressa watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia Agriculture and Human Values, 23: 99 – 108.
Academic Rank Assistant Professor
Working for AAU Since October 1997
Administrative Positions Held at AAU
  • Chief Academic Officer for Academic Programs and Staff Affairs, Addis Ababa University (2010 – 2012).
  • Assistant Dean of the Collage of Social Sciences (Regular Program), Addis Ababa University (2006 – 2008).
University Email aklilu.amsalu@aau.edu.et

 

Alternative Email amsalu.aklilu@gmail.com