Tim Forsyth

ORCID: 0000-0001-7227-9475
Publications
Citations
Views
---
Saved
---
About
Contact & Profiles
Research Areas
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Cambodian History and Society
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • International Development and Aid
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research

London School of Economics and Political Science
2014-2023

Hudson Institute
2021

John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2021

University of Guelph
2014

Harvard University
2001

Institute of Development Studies
1999-2000

Institute of Development Studies
1999

University of London
1995

1. Political ecology and the politics of environmental science 2. Environmental myths 3. 'laws' generalizations 4. Social framings 5. The co-production political activism 6. Enforcing contesting boundaries: Boundary organizations social movements 7. globalization risk 8. Democratizing explanations 9. networks 10. Conclusion: 'Critical'

10.5860/choice.41-2422 article EN Choice Reviews Online 2003-12-01

Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices more urgent, yet appears ever daunting as attempts behaviour change, regulations, global agreements confront material social-political infrastructures that support the status quo. Effective action requires new ways conceptualizing society, climate environment current struggles to break free established categories. In response, this contribution revisits important insights from social sciences...

10.1080/17565529.2019.1624495 article EN cc-by Climate and Development 2019-07-01

International efforts to reduce and sequester carbon dioxide other green-house gases are not yet slowing the rate of global warming.Indeed, Fourth Assessment Report Intergovern-mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) anticipates rapid changes in climate even if greenhouse-gas emissions reduced quickly,1 recent findings suggest that these projections underestimated.2The impacts change will be severe, particularly for most vulnerable developing countries have least capacity cope.As a result,...

10.3200/env.51.4.22-31 article EN Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 2009-09-01

10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.12.005 article EN Geoforum 2007-02-22

Abstract Decades of research and policy interventions on biodiversity have insufficiently addressed the dual issues degradation social justice. New approaches are therefore needed. We devised a action agenda that calls for collective task revisiting toward goal sustaining diverse just futures life Earth. Revisiting involves critically reflecting past present research, policy, practice concerning to inspire creative thinking about future. The was developed through 2‐year dialogue process...

10.1111/cobi.13671 article EN cc-by Conservation Biology 2020-11-27

10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.12.008 article EN Geoforum 2013-01-13

Norms of justice are often invoked to justify the globalisation forest policies but rarely critically analysed. This paper reviews elements in values, knowledge, access and property rights relating forests, especially developing countries. Rather than defining general terms distribution benefits recognition stakeholders, we argue that these processes mutually defining, can foreclose what is distributed, whom. Much recent policy, for example, emphasises carbon stocks indigenous peoples;...

10.1111/geoj.12006 article EN Geographical Journal 2013-02-27

This paper adds to the growing literature within geography on environmental regulation of business activities.The adoption voluntary practices responsibility is discussed as a form regulation, and then applied tourism using survey 69 companies institutions in UK outgoing industry.Results indicate that has adopted wide range practices, but considers them be weak regulatory instruments because ultimate for change lies with host governments via legislation.However, protection may enhance...

10.2307/3059723 article EN Geographical Journal 1997-11-01

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationNotes on contributorsTim ForsythSimon Batterbury is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom. Tim Forsyth fellow environment development Institute Development Studies, University Sussex, Brighton, The authors may be contacted through Brighton BN1 9RE, Kingdom (telephone: 011-44-1273-606261; e-mail: t.forsyth@ids.ac.uk).

10.1080/00139159909604639 article EN Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 1999-07-01
Coming Soon ...