Gunya Aleksei

Membership

Head of the MAB-6 / IG RAS Mountain group, deputy chairman of the mountain commission of the International Geographical Union, deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories

Research interests

Sustainable development of mountainous areas, landscape dynamics, conflicts and development, regional trends of development

Study areas

Mountain regions of the world, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Altai

Selected Publications

1. Catherine M. Tucker, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Alexey Gunya, Elizabeth Jimenez, Julia A. Klein, Jun Xu, Sophie Lena Bigler. Challenges for Governing Mountains Sustainably: Insights from a Global Survey. Mountain Research and Development, 41(2): R10-R20 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00080.1.
2. Petrushina M. N., Gunya A. N. Semiarid Intermontane Basins of the North Caucasus: Landscapes and Land Use Transformations. Aridnye Ekosistemy, 2021, Vol. 27, No. 4(89), pp. 25–33.
3. Bausch, Thomas; Schröder, Tilman; and Gunya, Alexey (2020). Pilgrimage as a field of tourism development: the case of Kavala (Northern Greece) and its institutional and cultural challenges. International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 8: Iss. 3, Article 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21427/yjwj-9s36.
4. Jan Koehler, Alexey Gunya, Murat Shogenov and Asker Tumov. 2020. Violence and the Dynamics of Political Settlements in Post-Soviet Kabardino-Balkaria. PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 14, Issue 2. P. 93-111.  
5. Shogenov, Murat; Gunya, Alexey; Chechenov, Aslan. Exploring civil society in the North-Western Caucasus: the state, local government, and communities on a convoluted path toward social stability. Demokratizatsiya; Washington Vol. 28, Iss. 2 (Spring 2020): 269-303.
6. Gunya Alexey. Radikalisierung und gewaltsame Konflikte im Nordkaukasus: Eine Faktorenanalyse. RUSSLAND-ANALYSEN. NR. 370, 03.05.2019. S. 8-13. 
7. Gunya Alexey. Entwicklungschancen und -risiken der Neuen Seidenstraße für Russland. Geographische Rundschau. №6. 2019. S. 36-41.
8. Alexey Gunya, Umar Gairabekov, Yuri Karaev, Alexey Lysenko, Ruslan Elmurzaev, and Halimat Janibekova. Post-Soviet Transformations in Pastoral Systems in the North Caucasus: The Development of Hybrid Institutions, Mountain Research and Development 39(4), R49-R59, (15 November 2019). DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00047.1
9. Gunya A. The Influence of State Development Programs on Stability in the Caucasus. In: Practical Geography and XXI Century Challenges. International Scientific and Practical Conference, 4-6 June 2018, Moscow. Conference Book. – Moscow: Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, - 2018. Part 2. P.73-74.
10. Koehler J, Gunya A. Empirical Studies of Local Conflicts (in Georgian language). Batumi State University Batumi. 2018. ISBN 978-9941-462-67-2.
11. Romina Rodela, Catherine May Tucker, Mateja Šmid-Hribar, Maurizia Sigura, Nevenka Bogataj , Mimi Urbanc, Alexey Gunya. Intersections of ecosystem services and common-pool resources literature: An interdisciplinary encounter. Environmental Science and Policy 94 (2019) 72–81. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.021.
12. Alexey Gunya. Land Reforms in Post-Socialist Mountain Regions and their Impact on Land Use Management: a Case Study from the Caucasus, Journal of Alpine Research | Revue de géographie alpine [En ligne], 105-1 | 2017, mis en ligne le 07 mars 2017, consulté le 06 avril 2017. URL: http://rga.revues.org/3563.
13. Koehler Jan, Alexey Gunya, Timur Tenov. Governing the Local in the North Caucasus. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 2017. Vol. 58, No 5. Pages: 502-532 DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2017.1410440.
14. Alexey Gunya, Timur Tenov, Murat Shogenov, Aslan Chechenov. Analysis of governance strategies in the North Caucasian republics with respect to conflict regulation and development in: Michèle Knodt, Sigita Urdze (Hrsg.). Caucasus, the EU and Russia - Triangular Cooperation? PP. 37 – 58. Reihe: Schriftenreihe des Arbeitskreises Europäische Integration e.V., Bd. 92. ISBN print: 978-3-8487-1686-9, ISBN online: 978-3-8452-5740-2, DOI: 10.5771/9783845257402-37.
15. Jan Koehler, Alexey Gunya, Magomed Alkhazurov. Insurgency Informed Governance in the North Caucasus: Observations from Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria. Small Wars & Insurgencies. Volume 27, Issue 3, 2016. Special Issue: Hybrid War in Post-Soviet Spaces. Pages 367-391. DOI:10.1080/09592318.2016.1151657.
16. Gunya Alexey. Fortieth anniversary of the book “Alps – Caucasus: topical problems of the constructive geography of mountain states”: what would be remake? In: Proceedings ICAE-2015. International Conference “Applied ecology: problems, innovations”. 7-10 May, 2015 Tbilisi – Batumi. Tbilisi 2015. P. 216-220
17. Gunya Alexey. The political dimension of tourism development in the Caucasus. In: Debarbieux B, Oiry Varacca M, Rudaz G, Maselli D, Kohler T, Jurek M (eds.). 2014. Tourism in Mountain Regions: Hopes, Fears and Realities. Sustainable Mountain Development Series. Geneva, Switzerland: UNIGE, CDE, SDC. PP. 90-91. ISBN 978-2-88903-027-9.
18. Gayrabekov U.T., Gunya A.N., Bachaeva T.Kh. Physic-Geographic Factors of Oil Development in the Chechen Republic. American Journal of Environmental Sciences. 2014, 10 (6). P. 575-580. DOI: 10.3844/ajessp.2014.575.580.
19. Donald Bedunah; Rick Graetz; Alexey Gunya, Spike Hampson; Marc S. Hendrix; Ardeshir Kia; Merhdad Kia; Alex Klaits; James W. Sears. Discovering Central Asia: Its History, Geography, and Politics. The University of Montana Press, 2012. 382 pp. ISBN: 0981576060 / 0-9815760-6-0.
20. Gunya A. Cross-border cooperation at local level in the Alps, the Caucasus and the mountains of Central Asia. Moscow-Berlin, 2007.
21. Gunya A. Inter-Group Relations and Conflicts in the North Caucasus: Stereotypes and Realities. In: Policy Perspective. Islam and Tolerance in Wider Europe. International Policy Fellowship, 2006. Pp. 74-78
22. Gunya A. Regionale Vielfalt und Umgang mit Konflikten: Eine vergleichende Analyse der Republiken Kabardino-Balkarien und Karatschai-Tscherkessien. Ost-West-Gegeninformationen, Jg. 16, Nr. 4/2004. S. XI-XVI.
23. Gunâ A.N. Dynamique et stabilite de la communaute montagnarde du Yaghnob (Tadjikistan du nord)//Les Montagnards d’Asie Centrale. Cahiers d’Asie centrale N 11/12. Pp. 161-178. Tachkent – Aix-en-Provence. 2003.
24. Gunya A. Yagnob Valley – nature, history, and chances of a mountain community development in Tadjikistan. Moscow, KMK Scientific Press Ltd. 2002. 108 p
25. Gunya A. Preserving Ethnic Diversity in Tajikistan’s High Mountain Valleys. In: Russian Conservation News. No. 30. Summer 2002. P. 20-22.
26. Gunya A., Bausch Th. Opportunities for transnational and cross-border cooperation in the Caucasus – a contribution to the International Year of the Mountains 2002. Berlin, BMU, 2002.
27. Gunja A. Cooperation in the European Mountain. 2: The Caucasus. IUCN. Environmental Research Series 13. 2000. Azerbaijan, 21-33, Kabardino-Balkaria, 85-94, Ingushetia, 107-113, Tchechen Republic Itchkeria, 114-121, Stavropolsky kray, 122-127, Dagestan, 128-137.
28. Gunja A. 1999. Aufgaben und Ansätze einer raumplanerischen Entwicklungssteuerung im oberen Baksantal/Nordkaukasus. In: Mitteilungen der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. Bd. 46. S. 267-303.
29. Buzurukov A., Gunja A. At Critical Juncture. In: Surviving Together.Vol.15, issue 1, spring 1997. P. 25-27.
30. Schröder H., Gunja A., Fickert Th. 1996. Vergleichende Periglazialmorphologie im zentralen Teil des noerdlichen Tienschan. In: Mitteilungen der Fraenkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. Bd. 43. S. 275-300.
31. Gunja A. 1996. Ressourcen, Risiken und Möglichkeiten der nachhaltigen Nutzung im Jagnobtal/Tadschikistan. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen. №2, S. 67-94.
32. Badenkov Yu., Gunja A., Lindner P. 1994. Traditionelle Wirtschaftsweise und Strukturwandel in einem peripheren Gebirgsraum am Beispiel Jagnob / Tadschikistan. In: Mitteilungen der Fraenkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. Bd. 41. S. 465-487.