Rasmus K. Larsen is a specialist in the employment of systemic, transdisciplinary and participatory action research methodologies to fostering and analysing institutional innovation and governance of natural resources and international development. Rasmus joined SEI in September 2006.

He holds PhD degree in Communication and Innovation from Wageningen University, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management from Oxford University (dissertation with distinction) and MSc in Biology from Copenhagen University. Prior to his employment with the Stockholm Environment Institute, he held a position as Assistant Lecturer with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, involved in launching and teaching in the first MSc program in Integrated Water Resource Management in Sweden.

Rasmus has nine years of professional experience as a researcher and consultant with fundraising, design, leadership, management, implementation and reporting in research, development, and capacity building projects, chiefly in South East Asia and Northern Europe. His work is focused on promoting collaborative governance initiatives and concerted action between governments, civil society and private sector, with particular emphasis on issues pertaining to legitimacy and accountability. He has also published extensively, with over 20 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and books.

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Publications

• The Common Agricultural Policy Post-2013: Could Reforms Make Baltic Sea Region Farms More Sustainable? (Policy brief - 2013)

• Environmental governance of uranium mining in Niger – a blind spot for development cooperation? (Working paper - 2013)

• Pre-consultation for EU Green Paper on sustainable phosphorus use: Exploring governance innovations in the Baltic Sea Region agricultural-food system (Discussion Brief - 2012)

• Dialogue and Revolution: Proposal for Critical-Pragmatic Recursive Praxis to Support Operationalisation of Methodological Virtues (Journal article - 2012)

• A framework for facilitating dialogue between policy planners and local climate change adaptation professionals: Cases from Sweden, Canada and Indonesia (Journal article - 2012)

• The Oil Palm Sector: Community Grievances and Water Governance in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia (Policy brief - 2012)

• How the EU Can Revise its Biofuel Policies to Promote 'Sustainable' Palm Oil Cultivation in Southeast Asia (Policy brief - 2012)

• Competing Water Claims in Biofuel Feedstock Operations in Central Kalimantan (Working paper - 2012)

• Sektor Minyak Kelapa Sawit: Keluhan Masyarakat dan Tatakelola Air di Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia (Policy brief - 2012)

• Making Sense of Accountability in Baltic Agro-Environmental Governance: The Case of Denmark's Green Growth Strategy (Journal article - 2012)

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Projects

• Hybrid accountability innovations for the Philippine oil palm industry

  
  

• Climate change adaptation and water governance: reconciling food security, renewable energy and the provision of multiple ecosystem services (CADWAGO)

  
  

• Agricultural transformations in the Greater Mekong Region

  
  

• Social and environmental costs and opportunities associated with renewable energy policy implementation: Negotiation of equitable water allocation and its implications for sustainable livelihoods

  
  

• Indian Ocean Early Warning System

  
  

• Baltic Compass

  
  

• Stakeholder Planning for Coastal Zone Management in Camiguin Island, Northern Philippines

  
  

• Vulnerability Resilience Colloqium

  
  

• Mangrove ecosystems, communities and conflict: developing knowledge-based approaches to reconciling multiple demands (MANGROVE)