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I'm a Research Fellow in Social and Environmental Sustainability at Monash University Malaysia. My research focuses on tropical forests, climate change, and livelihood interactions in the Global South. I'm particularly interested in how market-based instruments and various state and non-state actors (e.g., NGOs, MNCs, World Bank, UN) affect rural land-use and land cover change, how any conservation and development policies affect forests and the livelihoods of forest-dependent people, especially those under-represented social groups such as women, indigenous people and landless people. Feel free to reach out.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4Intermediary actors as important justice brokers in land use governance
The effectiveness of sustainable land use governance can be undermined if local affected people perceive land-use policies as not reflecting social objectives, or as ‘unjust.’ To transform externally-conceived sustainability principles from the international level into on-the-ground practice, involves the interplay of various organizations and peoples from the government, civil society, and the private sector.
Engaging migrants in natural resource management: Lessons from Indonesia
Environmental policy interventions often result in conflicts because they fail to recognize people’s identity and sense of belongings, as shaped through the places where they live. A recent paper explores a case study of a palm oil project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in which competing claims of recognition and land rights have led to conflict between transmigrants and indigenous Kutai people.