Licarion Kunwedomo Miine | Sustainable Agriculture | Research Excellence Award

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Mr. Licarion Kunwedomo Miine | Sustainable Agriculture | Research Excellence Award

University of Cape Coast | Ghana

Mr. Licarion K. Miine is a development studies scholar and policy researcher with strong interdisciplinary training in development policy, planning, and socio-economic analysis. He holds a PhD (awaiting award) in Development Studies, an MSc in Development Policy and Planning, and a BA in Integrated Development Studies, complemented by professional training in education. His experience spans academia, secondary and tertiary education, environmental health and safety practice, and community development. His research interests include development inequalities, labour and employment conditions, digital agriculture, occupational health and safety, poverty alleviation, and environmental governance. Through teaching, research, policy engagement, and peer-review service, he contributes to evidence-based development practice and sustainable socio-economic transformation.

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Arman Utepov | Agroecology | Research Excellence Award

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Dr. Arman Utepov | Agroecology | Research Excellence Award

Center for Ecosystem solutions EcoMind PF | Kazakhstan

Dr. Arman Utepov is a public administration scholar and environmental governance expert specializing in integrated water resources management and ecosystem-based decision-making. He holds advanced degrees in hydro-ecology, law, public administration, and a PhD focused on ecosystem approaches in national governance. His professional experience spans academia, international consulting, and policy development with organizations such as UNDP, FAO, USAID, and GIZ. His research interests include environmental flow assessment, nature-based solutions, land and water governance, climate adaptation, and ecosystem services valuation. Through leadership in scientific projects and policy reforms, he contributes to sustainable water and land management in Central Asia.

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Implementation of the “Polluter Pays” Principle in Kazakhstan’s State Environmental Regulation

Public Administration and Civil Service, December 2024 · Journal Article


Progress in Digital Technologies for Livestock Exterior and Fatness

Ġylym ža̋ne bìlìm, December 2024 · Journal Article

Teodor Kalpakchiev | Agroecology | Research Excellence Award

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Dr. Teodor Kalpakchiev | Agroecology | Research Excellence Award

Uni Leeds | United Kingdom

Dr. Teodor Georgiev Kalpakchiev is an environmental governance researcher with a PhD from the University of Leeds, supported by a prestigious EU Marie Curie Scholarship. His work spans environmental policy, climate mitigation, sustainable finance, renewable biogases, and circular resource governance, with a strong focus on phosphorus management. He has extensive professional experience as a policy adviser and researcher with major international institutions, including the European Commission, European Parliament, African Union, and OSCE, as well as universities across Europe and Asia. Dr. Kalpakchiev’s research has been published in leading journals and contributes to advancing integrated, evidence-based sustainability governance at global and EU levels.

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Melina Dritsak | Economics | Women Researcher Award

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Prof. Melina Dritsak | Economics | Women Researcher Award |

University of Western Macedonia | Greece

Melina Dritsaki is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Western Macedonia with extensive academic and professional experience spanning Greece and the United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia, an MSc in International Banking and Financial Studies from the University of Southampton, and a BSc in Economics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Prior to her current role, she served as Senior Health Economist at the University of Oxford and as Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and Brunel University. Her research lies at the intersection of econometrics, applied macroeconomics, health economics, energy economics, and public policy, with a strong emphasis on panel data methods, time-series analysis, and economic evaluation alongside clinical trials. She has published 86 peer-reviewed scientific documents with 1,442 citations and an h-index of 20, reflecting the impact and consistency of her scholarly contributions. Dr. Dritsaki has participated as lead economist or co-applicant in numerous nationally and internationally funded research projects and has supervised postgraduate research in economics and public health. Her work has been recognised with the Young Investigators Award from the European Respiratory Society. Through sustained research productivity, international collaboration, and teaching excellence, she continues to contribute significantly to empirical economic research and evidence-based policymaking.

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Ezzeddine Mosbah | Sustainable Agriculture | Research Excellence Award

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Assist. Prof. Dr. Ezzeddine Mosbah | Sustainable Agriculture | Research Excellence Award

King Faisal University | Saudi Arabia

Ezzeddine B. Mosbah is an agricultural and rural-development economist whose academic formation includes a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development from the National Agricultural Institute of Tunis (INAT, 2007), preceded by a specialized engineering degree in Economy and Rural Development (1996) and an agro-economist engineering degree (1993) from the same institute. With more than two decades of professional experience across ministries of Agriculture, Education, and Employment & Vocational Training in Tunisia and, since 2017, as Assistant Professor at King Faisal University (KSA), and previously at institutions in Tunisia, he has taught courses ranging from Agricultural Economics and Water Economics to Development Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, and Project Feasibility Studies. His research interests revolve around agricultural economics, rural development, labor and employment markets, efficiency and impact evaluation, environmental economics and waste management, food marketing (notably date-palm economics), water desalination, and econometric/operations-research methods. According to publicly available citation data, his h-index is 3 with 33 citations and 6 documented publications — a baseline that signals a career still consolidating its scholarly impact. Among his work is the monograph Rationaliser le Comportement Public: la Formation un Exemple (2015). Through empirical analyses of water-use efficiency, agricultural investment incentives, municipal waste impacts, technical efficiency of farms, and environmental sustainability, Mosbah contributes to policy-relevant knowledge in both MENA and Gulf contexts. His ongoing focus remains on efficiency measurement, sustainable rural development, and socio-economic evaluation of agricultural and environmental systems.

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Mosbah, E. B., & Dharmapala, P. S. (2022). Evaluating the effects of COVID-19 and vaccination on employment behaviour: A panel data analysis across the world. Sustainability.

Mosbah, E. B. (2021). Assessment of environmental and economic impacts of municipal solid wastes management system: A case study. Journal of Ecological Engineering.

Mosbah, E., Zaibet, L., & Dharmapala, P. S. (2020). A new methodology to measure efficiencies of inputs (outputs) of decision making units in data envelopment analysis with application to agriculture. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Mosbah, E. B. (2025). Assessment of land cover changes and an exploration of their key factors at Al-Ahsa Oasis in Saudi Arabia (Working paper).

Kpanoga Kolombia | Forestry Economics | Best Researcher Award

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Assist. Prof. Dr. Kpanoga Kolombia | Forestry Economics | Best Researcher Award

University of Alberta | Canada

Kpanoga Kolombia is a Development Economist specializing in renewable energy, environmental and natural resource economics, with over five years of academic and policy research experience across Canada, France, Germany, and West Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Sherbrooke, with a focus on non-market valuation and climate economics, and advanced degrees from Aix-Marseille University and the University of Lome. His work includes extensive empirical research on willingness to pay for carbon emission reduction, forest restoration, and ecosystem services in Quebec and Togo. Currently, he is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Alberta, a lecturer at ENAP, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Quebec in Outaouais. His research interests span development economics, climate change, forest economics, and public policy. Kolombia has published in peer-reviewed journals like the African Journal of Ecology, and has several articles under review in journals including Ecological Economics and Plos One. He has received multiple scholarships including the Mitacs, FRQ, and Affaires Mondiales Canada Fellowships. Kolombia continues to advance inclusive and evidence-based environmental policy through interdisciplinary and applied economic research.

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Kolombia, K., & Yovo, K. (2025). Willingness to pay for forest restoration in Togo: Comparison of estimates from choice experiment, contingent valuation and travel cost methods. African Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.70102

Kolombia, K. (2024). Economic evaluation of Mont-Bellevue Park in Sherbrooke using the individual travel cost method. Manuscript submitted for publication, Discover Cities.

Kolombia, K. (2024). Effect of policy consequentiality on willingness to pay for renewable energy in transport in Quebec. Manuscript submitted for publication, Journal of Cultural Economics.

Dupras, J., & Kolombia, K. (2024). Willingness to pay for the forestation of agricultural coulees: A choice experiment and contingent valuation study in Quebec. Manuscript submitted for publication, PLOS ONE.

Kolombia, K. (2024). Willingness to pay for renewable energy: A choice experiment and contingent valuation study in Quebec. Manuscript submitted for publication, Ecological Economics.