A5080907347- Cambodian History and Society
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Mining and Resource Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Asian Studies and History
Australian National University
2013-2025
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
2022
University of Sussex
2019
Macquarie University
2018
University of Limerick
2017
University of Cambridge
2009
University of Bath
1999-2005
Objective: This study compared a motivational intervention based on protection motivation theory (PMT, Rogers, 1975, 1983) with the same augmented by volitional implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, 1993). Design: The had longitudinal design, involving three waves of data collection over 2‐week period, incorporating an experimental manipulation PMT variables at Time 1 and volitional, intention 2. Method: Participants ( N =248) were randomly allocated to control group or one two groups....
ABSTRACT A growing number of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes are being implemented at the community level in developing countries, especially context climate change mitigation efforts to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). In parallel, there is vigorous commentary about implications market‐based or neoliberal conservation strategies, their potential effects on communities that depend natural resources. This article explores political...
: Cambodia has recently demonstrated one of the highest rates deforestation in world. While scholars have long explored drivers tropical forest loss, case offers particular insights into role state where transnational governance and regional integration are increasingly norm. Given significant logging rents play Cambodia's post-conflict formation, this article explores contemporary regime its ongoing codependent relationship with forested land. Insights distilled from comparative analysis...
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...
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...
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...
The idea of direct payments for biodiversity conservation in developing countries has generated much debate. Despite substantial experience with related economic instruments high-income such approaches are rare tropical countries, where action is most urgently needed. We explore current the application through an extensive review and subsequent analysis efforts Conservation International. Our identifies a broad spectrum possible payment contracts. However, we focus on those involving...
Abstract Two opposing land tenure policies are being implemented in upland C ambodia: indigenous communal title, the product of a decade advocacy for rights; and O rder 01, dramatic new initiative to provide private individual titles thousands farmers living on state public land. This policy conflict has precipitated painful deliberations Indigenous villages, whereby merits inalienable title must be weighed against its risks constraints; scrutinised their potential accelerate alienation...
Abstract This paper examines how a boom in industrial cassava served as ‘gateway’ to intensify capitalist relations Cambodia's north eastern borderland. Situated on border with Vietnam, Mondulkiri province has experienced rapid increase production and trade since 2006, transformative consequences for the region's forests farmers. Using field data from 2012 2014, we explore ignited intensified over time, through conjuncture of conditions. Alongside strong market demand cassava, these included...
Hybrid regimes like electoral authoritarianism blend elements of democratic and non-democratic political practices. can develop from populism or themselves to explain justify their shortcomings. Where the latter occurs, is a tool regime stabilisation rather than form ‘populism in power’. Moving using some populist themes assist official requires development discourse point where it becomes definitional what constitutes relationship between state society. The paper uses example Russia discuss...
Abstract We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although scientists share with biologists the desire to understand address biodiversity crisis, their analysis structural power relations contradictions in sometimes not appreciated. Intimidation can take place before during fieldwork, publication process, after academic public spheres. examined our diverse experiences intimidation, including...
Market‐based interventions to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ( REDD +) enable the carbon stored in land forests be traded as a new intangible form of property. Using examples C ambodia, P hilippines apua N ew G uinea, we examine property negotiations underpinning this forest economy. We show that institutions use needed ‘produce’ interact recursively with existing claims over forests. Even where customary rights are formally recognized PNG , hilippines), still...
This article develops the idea of "dirty money states" by defining and exploring problem illicit state financing in Southeast Asia. Most diagnoses Asia's flourishing economies focus on prevalence corruption "decay" state, but authors this essay develop a more nuanced explanation how states cultivate sustain themselves through extraction. Drawing from emerging literature criminality, as well fiscal sociology, they novel theoretical framing for six country case studies that comprise thematic...
The global land grab has played out vividly in Cambodia, giving rise to rural upheaval and new political dynamics. This article explores how the Cambodian government dealt with social consequences of this grabbing, aim exploring state formation context socio-environmental disruption dispossession. When a moratorium was declared 2012, ruling People's Party faced one its strongest challenges, fuelled part by resource conflicts. In article, focus is on responses challenge, noting recursive...
China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is facilitating massive infrastructure investment globally. Yet little known about the BRI's local impacts, especially in countries like Cambodia where regulations are weak government enthusiasm for BRI high. This article examines a set of BRI-linked investments rural Cambodia, involving five agro-industrial concessions sugar-processing factory. We explore how these interacted with political economy land governance. find that, despite being...
Milne, S., M. F. Nurfatriani, and L. Tacconi. 2016. How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from analysis of local discourses about forest management REDD+ in Indonesia. Ecology Society 21(2):6.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08363-210206