- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- African history and culture studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Sex work and related issues
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
National University of Singapore
2025
Cornell University
2023-2025
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
2025
University of Georgia
2014-2023
Center for International Forestry Research
2017
This paper contributes to global debates on environmental governance by drawing recent ontological scholarship ask: What would it mean ontologically engage the concept of governance? By examining underpinnings three domains (land, water, biodiversity), we find that dominant contemporary concepts and policy instruments are grounded in a modernist ontology which actively shapes world, making certain aspects relationships visible while invisibilizing others. We then survey ethnographic other...
Abstract To better understand and address global human–environment crises, interdisciplinary collaborations across the natural social sciences have become increasingly common in conservation. Within such collaborations, question of scale can cause tensions: how to agree on unit measurement analysis? We contend there is value scrutinizing relationship between interdisciplinarity more closely. Drawing 2 research projects Indonesia that integrate cultural anthropology conservation biology, we...
Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems are thought to be essential for effective carbon accounting joint REDD+ carbon, conservation, social development goals. Community participation in MRV (PMRV) has been shown both cost accurate, as well a method potentially advance stakeholder empowerment perceptions of legitimacy. Recognizing land tenure long-standing point tension planning, we argue that its engagement also key role play developing legitimate PMRV. Using household...
Version française de l'articleThe participation of local people in climate change mitigation is considered key to ensuring that their priorities are taken into account. This should help design effective social safeguards and improve equity benefit sharing. The has been explored carbon emission Measurement, Reporting Verification (MRV) for REDD+. feasibility sustainability participatory MRV (PMRV) not automatic depend on its relevance (including incentives participate), technical capacity the...