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Public spending on climate change in Africa. Experiences from Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda. Oversea Development Institute. London.
Low carbon development pathway for the Ethiopian Dairy Sector: Reducing enteric methane while increasing food security and livelihoods, FAO Report 2017.
Research interest /not more than 100 words Environment and Climate change reconstruction, carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil and plant system, climate finance and carbon trading, forest soils and land use change, disaster risks, loss and damage of climate change impacts in the horn of Africa.
Kebede Kassa and Zewdu Eshetu. 2014. Situation analysis of rural livelihoods and socioeconomic dynamics for sustainable rural development: The case of Legehida Woreda (District), South Wollo of Ethiopia. Research Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Management. Vol. 3(3), pp. 201-208.
Terwilliger V. J., Z. Eshetu, J. R. Disnar, J. Jacob J, W. P. Adderley, Y. Huang, M. Alexandre, M. L. Fogel. 2013. Environmental changes and the rise and fall of civilizations in the northern Horn of Africa: an approach combining δD analyses of land-plant derived fatty acids with multiple proxies in soil. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 111:140-161.
Daniau A. L., P.J. Bartlein, S.P. Harrison, I.C. Prentice, S. Brewer, P. Friedlingstein, T. I. Harrison-Prentice, J. Inoue, K. Izumi, J.R. Marlon, S. Mooney, M.J. Power, J. Stevenson, W. Tinner, M. Andrič, J. Atanassova, H. Behling, M. Black, O. Blarquez, K. J. Brown, C. Carcaillet, E. Colhoun, D. Colombaroli, B. A. S. Davis, D. D’Costa, J. Dodson, L. Dupont, Z. Eshetu, D. G. Gavin, A. Genries, S. Haberle, D. J. Hallett, S. P. Horn, G. Hope, T. Kassa, F. Katamura, L. Kennedy, P. Kershaw, S. Krivonogov, C. Long, D. Magri, E. Marinova, G. M. McKenzie, P. I. Moreno, P. Moss, F. H. Neumann, E. Norström, C. Paitre, D. Rius, N. Roberts, G. Robinson, N. Sasaki, L. Scott, H. Takahara, V. Terwilliger, F. Thevenon, R. B. Turner, V. G. Valsecchi, B. Vannière, M. Walsh, N. Williams, and Y. Zhang. 2012. Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 26: GB4007, doi:10.1029/2011GB004249.
Terwilliger, V. J., Z. Eshetu, M. Alexandre, Y. Huang, M. Umer, and T. Gebru. 2011. Local variation in climate and land use during the time of the major kingdoms of the Tigray Plateau of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Catena 85: 130-143.
Gebru, T., Z. Eshetu, Y. Huang, T. Woldemariam, N. Strong, M. Umer, M. DiBlasi and V. J. Terwilliger. 2009. Holocene palaeovegetation of the Tigray Plateau in northern Ethiopia from charcoal and stable organic carbon isotopic analyses of gully sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology 282: 67-80.
Terwilliger, V. J., Z. Eshetu, A. Colman, T. Bekele, A. Gezahgne, and M. L. Fogel. 2008. Reconstructing palaeoenvironment from δ13C and δ15N values of soil organic matter: a calibration from arid and wetter elevation transects in Ethiopia. Geoderma 147 :197-210.
Eshetu, Z, Giesler R., and Högberg P. 2004. Historical land use pattern affects the chemistry of forest soils in the Ethiopian highlands. Geoderma, 149-165.
Eshetu, Z. 2003. Natural 15N abundance in soils under young-growth forests in Ethiopia. Forest Ecology and Management, 139-147.
Eshetu, Z. 2002. Historical C3 and C4 vegetation pattern on forested mountain slopes: Its implication for ecological rehabilitation of degraded highlands of Ethiopia by afforestation. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18: 743-758.
Eshetu, Z. and Högberg, P. 2000. Reconstruction of Forest Site History in Ethiopian Highlands based on 13C natural abundance of soils. Ambio 29: 83-89.
Eshetu, Z. and Högberg, P. 2000. Effect of Land use on 15N natural abundance of soils in Ethiopian Highlands. Plant and Soil 222: 109-117.
Wils, T.H.G., Robertson, I., Williams, A.P., Koprowski, M. & Z. Eshetu, submitted. Understanding long-term river basin hydrology using isotopes in tree rings. Journal of Hydrology.
Wils, T.H.G., Robertson, I., Woodborne, S., Hall, G., Koprowski, M. & Z. Eshetu, submitted. Anthropogenic forcing increases the water use efficiency of African trees. Geophysical Research Letters.
Wils, T.H.G., Sass-Klaassen, U.G.W., Eshetu, Z., Bräuning, A., Gebrekirstos, A., Couralet, C., Robertson, I., Touchan, R., Koprowski, M., Conway, D., Briffa, K. & H. Beeckman, 2011. Dendrochronology in the dry tropics: the Ethiopian case. Trees – Structure and Function 25, pp. 345-354.
Wils, T.H.G., Robertson, I., Eshetu, Z., Touchan, R., Sass-Klaassen, U. & M. Koprowski, 2011. Crossdating Juniperus procera from North Gondar, Ethiopia. Trees – Structure and Function 25, pp. 71-82.
Wils, T.H.G., Robertson, I., Eshetu, Z., Koprowski, M., Sass-Klaassen, U.G.W., Touchan, R. & N.J. Loader, 2010. Towards a reconstruction of Blue Nile baseflow from Ethiopian tree rings. The Holocene 20, pp. 837-848.
Wils, T.H.G., Robertson, I., Eshetu, Z., Sass-Klaassen, U.G.W. & M. Koprowski, 2009. Periodicity of Juniperus procera growth rings from Ethiopia. Dendrochronologia 27, pp. 45-58.
Wils, T.H.G., Eshetu, Z. & M. Koprowski, 2008. Reconstructing the flow of the River Nile from Juniperus procera tree rings and historical sources: dating the tree rings. Report to the Royal Geographical Society, London, 44 p.
Williams, A.P., Funk, C., Michaelsen, J., Rauscher, S.A., Robertson, I., Wils, T.H.G., Koprowski, M., Eshetu, Z. & N.J. Loader, 2012. Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature. Climate Dynamics 39, pp. 2307-2328.
Member of a working team project preparation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) for Ethiopia.
Member of a task force for developing REDD+ reference level and SESA of REDD+ implementation.
Member of the National Steering Committee (Technical committee) for preparing project Design Document for Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy (CRGE).
A lead writer of a proposal for establishment of Ethiopian Panel of Climate Change (EPCC) and Environmental Certification Institute, and coordinator of implementing the establishment of Environmental Service Certification Institute, both funded by DFiD.

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