A5049394524- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Cambodian History and Society
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Philippine History and Culture
- Mining and Resource Management
- Asian Studies and History
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Forest Management and Policy
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Sex work and related issues
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
The University of Melbourne
2016-2025
University of the Sunshine Coast
2016
Wageningen University & Research
2012-2013
The University of Queensland
2006-2012
University of the Witwatersrand
2007
University of Manitoba
2001
SUMMARY Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has been on the ascendancy for several decades and plays a leading role in conservation strategies worldwide. Arriving out of desire to rectify human costs associated with coercive conservation, CBNRM sought return stewardship biodiversity resources local communities through participation, empowerment decentralization. Today, however, scholars practitioners suggest that is experiencing crisis identity purpose, even most positive...
Abstract We question whether the increasingly popular, radical idea of turning half Earth into a network protected areas is either feasible or just. argue that this Half-Earth plan would have widespread negative consequences for human populations and not meet its conservation objectives. It offers no agenda managing biodiversity within Earth. call instead alternative action both more effective equitable, focused directly on main drivers loss by shifting global economy from current foundation...
The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed geological epoch: Anthropocene. This epoch, according to Anthropocene Working Group, began mid-20th century and reflects "great acceleration" that with industrialization Europe [J. Zalasiewicz et al.,
Policy makers across the tropics propose that carbon finance could provide incentives for forest frontier communities to transition away from swidden agriculture (slash-and-burn or shifting cultivation) other systems potentially reduce emissions and/or increase sequestration. However, there is little certainty regarding outcomes of many key land-use transitions at center current policy debates. Our meta-analysis over 250 studies reporting above- and below-ground estimates different types...
Global conservation discourses and practices increasingly rely on market-based solutions to fulfill the dual objective of forest economic development. Although varied, these interventions are premised assumption that natural resources most effectively managed preserved while benefiting livelihoods if market-incentives a liberalised economy correctly in place. By examining three nationally supported payment for ecosystem service (PES) schemes Vietnam we show how insecure land tenure, high...
The 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate reinforces actions to conserve and enhance forests as carbon reservoirs. A decade after sub-national demonstration projects reduce emissions from deforestation forest degradation (REDD+) commenced, we examine why many REDD+ schemes appear have fuelled social conflict while having limited success in addressing the drivers of loss degradation. Our analysis is two-tiered: first synthesise findings a set ethnographic case studies Mainland...
Across Southeast Asia, coastal livelihoods are becoming more diverse and commodified, as maritime zone developments intensify. We review literature from the ten states in Asia to assess how older emerging forms of influence viability small-scale fishing livelihoods. Applying a political economy lens fisheries at regional scale, we show persist significant livelihood activity across region, despite declining opportunities due long-term intensification exploitation. The paper further analyses...
In 2012, the European Commission (EC) introduced new bio-based economy or bioeconomy policy project, since adopted by about 50 countries. Alongside politicians, various research and other interest groups have promoted as inevitable, apolitical, a triple-win strategy for nature, people, economy. Recently, is also actively framed transformative. Yet what transformative even in EU policy, why it important to critically engage with concept of bioeconomy, especially but not only so-called Global...
Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts protected areas. Here we review literature that compares areas managed by states Indigenous peoples and/or local communities. We argue these can be hard comparisons make. Robust comparative case studies are rare, epistemic communities producing them fractured language, discipline, geography. Furthermore distinction between forms protection on...
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture intensity generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as term for specific intense episodes change, such wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This useful addition to our lexicon nature-society change but needs be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture an adverse episode disruption that ripples across scales, we elaborate four dimensions...
Human fire use contributes to regimes and benefits societies worldwide yet is poorly understood at the global scale. We present Global Fire Use Survey (GFUS), an effort elicit systematize knowledge about from experts, including academics practitioners. The GFUS data cover stakeholders using fire, reasons for seasonality of burning, recent trends in anthropogenic ignitions burned area presence/absence effectiveness different policy interventions targeting use. survey garnered 311 responses...
Abstract Indonesia's young people renegotiate the constraints on rural‐based livelihood opportunities by participating in a diverse array of off‐farm activities, circular migration, and rural to urban mobility flows. While these strategies work overcome insecurity farm‐based work, they can also introduce new forms precarity, which are compounded when other major life events or crises occur. Drawing period in‐depth qualitative research with two villages South Sulawesi, we describe how were...
This contribution addresses the growing global trend to promote 'natural capital accounting' (NCA) in support of environmental conservation. NCA seeks harness economic value conserved nature incentivize local resource users forgo opportunity costs extractive activities. We suggest that this represents a form neoliberal biopower/biopolitics seeking defend life by demonstrating its 'profitability' and hence right exist. While little finance actually reaches communities through strategy,...
The current focus on mangroves as key ecosystems in mitigating the impacts of climate change has largely neglected livelihoods coastal dwellers interacting with mangroves. This article provides a review scholarly and policy attention paid to these social groups their means struggle. It argues that latest dominant governance discourse tying blue carbon signifies departure from catering people's interests rights We describe evolving discourses have shaped mangrove use conservation Philippines...