A5045765599- International Development and Aid
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- China's Global Influence and Migration
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Mining and Resource Management
- Cambodian History and Society
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Asian Studies and History
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Economic Zones and Regional Development
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Disaster Response and Management
James Cook University Singapore
2021-2023
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
2010-2021
University of Nottingham
2017
Durham University
2006-2016
National University of Singapore
2005-2007
ABSTRACT Discussions on the politics of Chinese engagement with African development have been marked by increasing concern over use aid in exchange for preferential energy deals. Normative liberal discourse criticizes disbursing ‘rogue aid’ and undermining good governance continent. These criticisms not only ignore longer‐term motivations modalities historical diversity relations Africa, but also uncritically assume ‘Western’ to be morally ‘superior’ ‘more effective’ terms outcomes. This...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the largest infrastructure scheme in our lifetime, bringing unprecedented geopolitical economic shifts far larger than previous rising powers. Concerns about its environmental impacts are legitimate threaten to thwart ambitions, especially since there little precedent for analysing planning of massive development at scale BRI. In this paper, we review under BRI characterise nature types demonstrate how social, political factors can shape these...
This paper investigates from a socio-technical and energy justice perspective the lack of coordination international, national local developmental priorities inclusion needs in decision making process large dam construction global South. The argues that analysis infrastructures as systems requires an approach to capture true environmental social nature production consumption. In doing so, this proposes conceptual framework called "The Energy Justice Framework for Dam Decision-Making" tool...
Debates around infrastructure tend to focus on the global North, yet in South demand for is huge and we see new emergent actors engaged finance construction; China being pre-eminent among them. China’s interests have grown apace over past decade, especially terms of accessing resources securing deals. The role Chinese banks State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) financing building projects reveals a blurring between geopolitical commercial processes. article situates entry into as part geopolitics...
Disaster recovery efforts form an essential component of coping with unforeseen events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and typhoons, some which will only become more frequent or severe in the face accelerated climate change. Most time, disaster produce net benefits to society. However, depending on their design governance, projects can germinate adverse social, political, economic outcomes. Drawing from concepts political economy, ecology, justice theory, critical development...
Abstract Hydropower dams are back in the spotlight owing to a shifting preference for low carbon energy generation and their possible contribution mitigating climate change. At forefront of renaissance large hydropower Chinese companies, as builders world's largest at home abroad, opening up opportunities low- middle-income countries. However, dams, despite developmental reduction contributions, accompanied by huge economic costs, profound negative environmental changes social impacts. Using...
In recent years, state entrepreneurialism and the notion of (urban) sustainability have become ever more closely intertwined in China there has been a proliferation eco-/low-carbon other similar sustainability-themed urban initiatives that helped local states to achieve favorable position city competitions. Nevertheless, existing studies do not explain why Chinese projects are planned/implemented with divergent emphases different development trajectories. Through three flagship projects,...
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamic nature with which independent accountability mechanisms operate. Focusing on World Bank, authors argue that its Inspection Panel evolves according to internal and external pressures. In seeking achieve equilibrium, protect authority independence, has gone through several distinct phases: negotiation, emergence, protracted resistance, assertion of independence authority, renewed tension, contestation. The core novelty is application concepts from...
ABSTRACT Large dams have been controversially debated for decades due to their large‐scale and often irreversible social environmental impacts. In the pursuit of low‐carbon energy climate change mitigation, hydropower is experiencing a new renaissance. At forefront this renaissance are Chinese actors as world's largest dam‐builders. This paper aims discuss role South–South technology transfer innovation its opportunities barriers by using case study first large Chinese‐funded Chinese‐built...
Climate change adaptation refers to altering infrastructure, institutions or ecosystems respond the impacts of climate change. Least developed countries often lack requisite capacity implement projects. The Global Environment Facility's Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) is a scheme where industrialised have disbursed $934.5 million in voluntary contributions support 213 projects across 51 least countries. But how effective are its efforts—and what sort challenges arisen as it implements...
On the morning of 26 December 2004 large areas coastal southern Thailand were transformed when a tsunami, generated by powerful submarine earthquake in Indian Ocean, swept ashore. Officially, there 5395 confirmed deaths with another 2932 people listed as missing. In February 2005 team led Dr Ben Horton University Pennsylvania was awarded an SGER grant National Science Foundation to undertake exploratory research on tsunami Malaysia and Thailand. This report summarizes preliminary conclusions...
Various stakeholders contribute to the current state of resource management in inshore fisheries Pattani, southern Thailand. Taking state, empowered by national legislation, as main agent enforcement, this paper uses an actor‐oriented approach derived from political ecology evaluate how key agents agencies at provincial and district levels translate Thai legal systems local level; more specifically, cross‐scalar institutional linkages translations affect coastal resources access...
China's insatiable appetite for natural resources and energy to fuel its national growth is having an increasing impact on the domestic global environment. Globally, China has turned resource-rich regions in Africa South America, at times engaging so-called “rogue states” secure it requires. Now a critical juncture which encourage socially responsible behaviours Chinese extractive sectors, such as adopting Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). This analysis discusses current...
To accelerate clean energy transition, China has explored the potential of hydrogen as an carrier since 2001. Until 2020, 49 national policies were enacted. This paper explores relevance these to development industry and transition in China. We examine reasons, impacts, challenges Chinese through conceptual framework Thomas Dye’s policy analysis method European Training Foundation’s guide. research provides ex-post for previous ex-ante future options. argue that supply revolution technology...
Abstract: Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken July 2005, the study illuminates complex and contingent way which Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households individuals. The paper problematises indiscriminate/discriminate patterning impact recovery also makes a case for delocalised transnational approach to understanding impacts wave. Using notion ‘tsunami footprints’ drawing qualitative interviews, proposes that need be seen context spatially...