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Bach Tan Sinh |
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Bach Tan Sinh obtained
his Ph.D. degree in environmental social science from Aalborg University,
Denmark, in 1998, with a thesis entitled "Sustainable Development
in Vietnam: Institutional Challenges for Integration of Environment
and Development". He was a Fulbright Post-doc Visiting Scholar
at University of California, Berkeley, during 1999-2000. He has
conducted a considerable amount of research on institutional issues
relating to sustainable development and innovation studies in Vietnam.
Recently, he has been carrying out research on civil society with
a particular focus on Vietnam. He is based at the Department of
Science Policy Studies, National Institute for Science and Technology
Policy and Strategy Studies (NISTPASS) in Vietnam. Sinh is currently
a visiting scholar at the AMRC, conducting research on sustainable
development in the Mekong Region. Languages: Vietnamese, German.
Email: sinh@geosci.usyd.edu.au |
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Doug Bailey |
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Doug worked with AMRC as Administrator between 1999
and 2006. Prior to coming to the AMRC Doug worked with two small overseas
aid NGOs with conservation and permaculture projects in Vietnam and
Cambodia. PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney with a
research focus on rural west Java, Indonesia. Lived and worked in
Indonesia. Ongoing involvement with the permaculture movement including
publication of a newsletter. In November 2000 took part in Mekong
Initiative Partners' Consultation Workshop in Phnom Penh, hosted by
Oxfam America and JVC Cambodia. In November 2002 attended the Dialogue
on River Basin Development and Civil Society in Ubon, doing videoing
for the AMRC.
Languages: Indonesian, elementary Sundanese.
Email: doug_bailey2004@hotmail.com
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Georgina Houghton |
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Georgina has been living and working in Vietnam for
the past 7 years after finishing an MA in the Department of Geography
at the University of Sydney. Based in Hanoi, she has some years experience
working with international and local NGOs in various aspects of rural
development. Georgina has now returned to carry out her PhD research
which will focus on land issues in a rural community in upland Vietnam
and explore the role of local land tenure institutions in mediating
the impacts of global processes currently redefining the relationship
between national and individual development interests in Vietnam.
Languages: Vietnamese
Email: tona@netnam.org.vn |
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Tamerlaine Beasley |
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Tamerlaine manages her own intercultural
training and consultancy company Beasley Intercultural. Specialising
in Thailand, Tamerlaine assists clients to operate more effectively
in different cultural environments. Key clients include the United
Nations, the Australian Embassy in Bangkok, Universities and leading
corporations in the region. An Asian Studies graduate from the ANU,
Tamerlaine has also studied Thai at Chulalongkorn and Silapakorn
Universities and International Business at Penn State University
in the US. Her research thesis was on intercultural issues in the
development of the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge. Tamerlaine also facilitates
AMRC planning meetings from time to time. Languages: Thai, Lao
Email: tamerlaine@intercultural.com.au |
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Simon Bush |
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Simon has been involved with the AMRC
since 1999. In 2005 he obtained his doctorate for a thesis on the
politics of living aquatic resources management and development
in Lao PDR. Simon now works with the Environmental
Policy Group at Wageningen University and Research Centre in
The Netherlands focussing on environmental governance issues in
Asia.
Languages: Lao
Email: simon.bush@wur.nl
Publications: 2005
2004 2003
2002
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Lilao Bouapao |
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Lilao has seven years experience with the
National Statistical Centre under the State Planning Committee, Lao
P.D.R supervising numerous socio-economic survey projects and teaching
basic statistics to provincial and district statisticians. He
is undertook Masters research on rural development project management
in Lao P.D.R. He is currently working with the Mekong River Commission.
Languages: Lao, Thai.
Email: lilao@mail.usyd.edu.au |
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Naomi Carrard |
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Naomi Carrard worked as Research Assistant
at the Australian Mekong Research Centre betwen May 2004 and June
2006. In that time Naomi worked full-time on the Australian Water
Research Facility 'Water Governance in Context' project and part time
on the Danida 'National Interests and Transboundary Water Governance'
project. Naomi has a Bachelor of Liberal Studies (first class honours)
from the University of Sydney with majors in Geography and History.
She also has a Masters in Environmental Law focusing on natural resource
management in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Naomi is now working
as a Research Consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures
at University of Technology Sydney. |
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Gerard Cheong |
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Gerard has a background in forestry EIS
as a private consultant. He currently works for the Department of
Immigration and Multicultural Affairs as a community consultant for
numerous migrant and refugee communities in Sydney. In late 1999 he
managed the Safe Haven for Kosovars in Singleton until its closure.
During December 1999 and January 2000 he set up, through extensive
consultation, a community relations and development strategy at the
Safe Haven for East Timorese in East Hills, Sydney. In 1999 he presented
a paper on "Participation in Water Resource Management in Lao
PDR" at the international Symposium on Society and Resource
Management, University of Queensland. He wrote his Masters thesis
on community participation in the water resources sector in Lao PDR.
Languages: Malaysian/Indonesian, Cantonese, elementary Thai and Lao. |
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I-Ling Chia |
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I-Ling Chia worked for the
AMRC as an intern from August to December 2002. She is an honours
graduate in communications studies from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological
University and has worked for Singapore’s broadcasting media company,
MediaCorp Radio, as a radio producer-presenter and journalist for
three years, producing current affairs programs, news reports, and
hosting radio shows. I-Ling completed a Masters course in international
relations at the University of New South Wales. As part of her studies
she agreed to research hydropower development in the Se San Watershed
in Vietnam and Cambodia, and design and create a website detailing
the case study for the AMRC. This she successfully completed in December
2002 and the case study is now published on the AMRC website. Languages:
Mandarin, Japanese |
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Helena Clayton |
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Helena’s research interest lies within
local and rural policy issues related to resource management in agriculture
and fisheries. An interest in these issues in the Mekong region has
developed through her involvement with Community Aid Abroad groups
concerned with local issues both in Australia and the Mekong region.
Helena completed an Honours degree in Agricultural Economics in 1996
and is soon to submit her Masters thesis in the same discipline. Helena
has undertaken research on issues concerning ecologically sustainable
development in Australia’s marine fisheries and on sustainability
concerns facing rice-shrimp farmers in the coastal provinces of the
Mekong Delta. After returning in early 2000 from a 4-month placement
at Can Tho University with the Australian Youth Ambassador program,
Helena became committed full-time that year on the ACIAR project "An
evaluation of the sustainability of farming systems in the brackish
water region of the Mekong Delta". Helena presented findings
from her research relating to land degradation in the rice-shrimp
farming system at the final project workshop in December 2000. |
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Premrudee Daoroung |
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Premrudee (Eang) was an NGO staff member instrumental
in the establishment of the Community Forest Support Project at the
Department of Forestry, Lao PDR. Eang has been working with the regional
environmental NGO, TERRA (Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional
Alliance) , for a number of years. She conducted her Masters research
on external agencies’ influence in forestry frameworks and practice
in Lao PDR during 1998-2000. After two years in both Sydney and Laos
carrying out her research work, she has returned to the region to
work with TERRA. Languages: Thai, Lao
Email: fer@terraper.org |
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Olivia Dun |
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Olivia completed her Honours Degree in Environmental
Science (Geography) in November 2000, with an honours thesis entitled
"Community Forestry Discourses in Northern Thailand" following
two months fieldwork in Thailand. In 2001 Olivia worked in Laos
as a Youth Ambassador under the AusAID Youth Ambassadors for Development
Program. There she worked at the National University of Laos as
a support for a Natural Resource Management Documentation Centre
located within the Faculty of Forestry. Olivia spent the beginning
of 2002 touring Vietnam, Thailand and Laos in her role as course
tutor for the 2002 Southeast Asian Field School. She then assisted
in the teaching of the Mekong eSim component of the Field School
course in Australia. In April 2002 she returned to Laos to continue
work on the AMRC-supported "Resource Tenure in Community Based
Natural Resource Management Project" at the National University
of Laos. The project was in its final phase of training local teachers
in academic level research. Olivia's work involved conference preparations,
assisting researchers with language editing and literature reviews,
and training local staff in database applications and multimedia
presentation development. In 2003 Olivia took up a graduate position
with the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous
Affairs in Canberra.
Email: livdun@hotmail.com |
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Yayoi Fujita |
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Yayoi Fujita from the University of Kobe,
Japan, and the National University of Laos spent three weeks in early
2001 at the AMRC as a visiting scholar. Yayoi is currently based at
the National University of Laos where she is carrying out research
into community forestry. While visiting the AMRC Yayoi presented a
paper entitled "Land Allocation and Protected Areas in Lao PDR".
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Tira Foran |
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Before joining the AMRC as an affiliate
scholar, Tira lived for sixteen years in the United States, where
he worked most recently as a consultant doing fisheries policy analysis
and advocacy for Environmental Defense, a non-profit research and
advocacy organization. In Thailand, where Tira grew up, he has conducted
research on corporate social responsibility among multinational
electronics firms. Most recently he has helped IUCN (the World Conservation
Union) launch an "environmental flows" assessment programme
in Southeast Asia. Tira is currently a PhD student in the Division
of Geography. His research looks at the effects of competing agendas
on the Thai government’s recent decision about how to operate Pak
Mun Dam.
Languages: Thai
Email: tira_foran@yahoo.com.au |
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Caroline Garaway |
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Caroline Garaway joined
the AMRC in October 2003 and will stay there as a visiting scholar
until December 2003. Caroline is a human ecologist with particular
interest in the human ecology of living aquatic resource use (particularly
in SE Asia) and the development of integrated approaches to living
aquatic resources management and research. She is currently a Research
Associate within the Department of Environmental Technology, Imperial
College London and returns to London to take up a position as Lecturer
in Environment & Development within the Department of Anthropology
at UCL. For the past 9 years she has been involved in UK DfID funded
research projects in South and South East Asia (including Thailand,
Lao PDR, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). Lao PDR has been
the focus of her investigations into the nature and importance of
fishing, the impact of development initiatives (such as fish enhancement
and agricultural development) on living aquatic resource use, and
learning approaches to management under uncertainty.
Email: c.garaway@imperial.ac.uk |
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Alex Gartrell |
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Two years experience in Cambodia, including work on
community based resource managment; study of community forestry in
Cambodia; input into AusAID funded study on natural resource management
in the Mekong Basin. Currently engaged in research on geography of
health. Languages: Khmer. |
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Takehiko "Riko" Hashimoto |
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Riko has a background in coastal geomorphology, with
a particular interest in sedimentation and landform evolution in deltas
and estuaries, mangrove habitat dynamics, acid sulfate soils and geoarchaeology.
His research activities in the last 8 years have been based in the
North Coast and Sydney Regions of New South Wales, southeast Queensland,
southern Thailand (Nakhon Si Thammarat Province), and Japan, in part
as a consultant to the Australian Museum, the New South Wales Department
of Land and Water Conservation and the Manly Hydraulics Laboratory.
In August 2000, he visited the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, where he investigated
environmental issues associated with recent infrastructure development
in the Vietnamese part of the Mekong Delta, notably those associated
with large-scale water-control projects and the intensifying use of
the coastal zone resulting from the rapid expansion of shrimp aquaculture,
mangrove forestry and irrigated rice cropping. The findings of the
project are summarised in the AMRC Working Paper "Environmental
issues and recent infrastructure development in the Mekong Delta".
In 2003 Riko completed a PhD thesis which has elucidated the evolutionary
history of estuarine-deltaic systems on the North Coast of New South
Wales during the last 10,000 years. Languages: Japanese, German, French |
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Sayamol Kaiyoorawongs |
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Sayamol Kaiyoorawongs joined
the AMRC in November 2000 and worked at Sydney University until July
2001 as a visiting scholar. Sayamol is an environmental lawyer with
the Project for Ecological Recovery, a prominent environmental organisation
in Thailand. She has been active in helping draw up the "people's
version" of the Community Forestry Bill in that country. While
in Sydney her research focused on customary rights and formal resource
legislation in the area of community forestry. Languages: Thai
Email: noksayamol@hotmail.com
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Sukun Keat |
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Sukun spent seven and a half
years assisting Khmer refugees along the Khmer-Thai borders where
he was involved in the administration of the Khao I Dang camp and
the teaching of management courses to students at the Institute of
Public Administration in Site2. From 1993 to 1998 he was appointed
as Minister for Youth, Sport and women’s Affairs then as Secretary
of State for Women’s Affairs. In the latter capacity Sukun was
involved in setting up the Women’s Affairs Ministry as well as
the National Policy for Cambodian Women. In close cooperation with
local and international NGOs he initiated different programs throughout
Cambodia such as Women in Development Center to provide vocational
training and information to Cambodian women especially those living
in the rural areas. Languages: Khmer, French |
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Kheung Kham Keonuchan |
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Kham has two years experience in planning
at the National Office for the Environment, Department of Forestry,
Laos, with research experience in the study of eco-tourism in protected
areas in Laos and the environmental impact of irrigation development
in Laos. The main objective of Kham’s current research is to understand
the social-economic, political, cultural and ecological context of
shifting cultivators and how these contexts affect and motivate shifting
cultivators in decision making, their practice and the adoption, modification
and rejection of new practices. Kham submitted his PhD thesis in mid-2000
and has returned to Laos with his family. He is now working as a provincial
manager with the UN World Food Program in Laos. Languages: Lao, Vietnamese,
Thai. |
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Susan King |
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Susan King was a lecturer in the Faculty of Education,
University of Technology Sydney for 12 years and has worked extensively
on education projects and consultancies in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
since 1990. This has included working with local university staff
to set up provincial Resource Centres, leading a team of local and
foreign experts to develop the curriculum for the Bachelor of Education
at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (1992-1993) and designing and
delivering in country seminars, workshops and teacher training programs
. For 2 years 1994-1995, Susan was the AusAID Training Advisor in
Laos where she helped to establish a national articulated professional
development pathway for secondary and tertiary English teachers .
She has been an education expert on various AusAID Technical Assistance
Panels and is currently the Technical Advisor for AusAID for the Lao
Australian English for ASEAN Purposes Project (2000-2002). The title
of her PhD thesis is "Institutional capacity building: making
a place for universities in Cambodia". In connection with her
PhD research, she also worked on a range of small scale, localised
collaborative projects in Cambodian universities including the performing
arts library at the University of Fine Arts and the development of
an educational program in sustainable tourism with the University
of Bologna and the Royal University of Phnom Penh. |
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Anucha Leksakundilok |
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Anucha graduated as an Architect and
Regional Planner from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand before
working at the Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological
Research where he was responsibility for research and design of
environmental and natural resource management plans for both the
government and private organisations. Anucha also has experience
in physical planning and project management, particularly in the
area of tourism development. In 2004 Anucha completed his Ph.D.
on community participation in environmental management in ecotourism.
Languages: Thai |
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Alanna Linn |
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In 2002 Alanna completed her geography honours thesis
at the University of Sydney, looking at the contestation of water
management in Northern Thailand. She has also previously undertaken
research in Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos as part of the third year
geography field school. Also in 2002, Alanna assisted in coordination
of the Dialogue on River Basin Development and Civil Society and co-authored
an AMRC working paper looking at the transfer of water management
models between the Murray-Darling and Mekong river basins. For the
first half and last part of 2003 Alanna worked on developing a CD-ROM
based upon the outcomes of the Dialogue process. |
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Xiu Juan Liu |
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Xiu Juan is a lecturer in Economic Geography
at Xinjiang University in northwestern China. Her PhD study, submitted
in March 2001, is on water resources and environmental management
in transitional China, with specific focus on the changing political
ecology of water management in the Tarim River Basin in Xinjiang.
For the remainder of 2001 Xiu Juan worked as a researcher with the
AMRC, studying water resource management in the upper Mekong Basin
(Lancang) in Yunnan Province, China. Xiu Juan now resides in Auckland,
New Zealand. Languages: Mandarin |
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Kate Lloyd |
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Kate Lloyd is a lecturer in the Department
of Human Geography at Macquarie University. She teaches in the fields
of Asia-Pacific geography and development geography. Her research
is focused on transitional countries in Asia particularly on Vietnam's
transition from a command economy to a socialist market economy.
Her other main interest involves international tourism as a development
strategy and its role in informing socio-economic change in developing
countries.
Languages: elementary Vietnamese
Email: klloyd@els.mq.edu.au
Publications: 2005
2004
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Satoru Matsumoto |
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Five years as journalist with NHK television (Japan);
4 years as director of the Japanese International Volunteer Centre
in Lao PDR; publications include a book in Japanese on Mekong development.
Currently engaged in research on mass media representation of development/environment
relationship in the Mekong Region, with reference to Lao, Thai, Vietnamese,
Cambodian, Australian and Japanese print media. Satoru completed his
thesis and wrote a number of papers during his time at the AMRC. Languages:
Thai, Lao, Japanese. |
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Cameron McAuliffe |
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During 1999 Cameron completed research
into the impacts of the recent economic crisis in Thailand on its
rural communities, which included critiques of rural-urban migration
patterns and the media representations of returning domestic migrants.
This research involved two-months of village-based fieldwork in NE
Thailand and was the basis of his Honours thesis in Geography, which
was completed in 1999. In 2000, Cameron produced a biographical photo-documentary
work based on the life of a former refugee in the Sydney Lao community.
He is currently researching issues of identity construction in migrant
communities in Sydney and Vancouver as part of his ongoing work towards
his Ph.D. Cameron has also taught English in Lao PDR for a short stint
and is a graduate chemical engineer. Languages: elementary Thai, Lao
and Spanish. |
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Jess McLean |
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Jess is currently enrolled in a Ph.D.
within the School of Geosciences and is researching the political
ecology of water governance in the Ord River Basin in Australia.
Prior to this, Jess completed a research internship with the Australian
Conservation Foundation Asia-Pacific unit in 2003. She has been
a researcher for the Centre for Risk and Community Safety at RMIT
which involves examining issues of community vulnerability and globalisation.
Jess also works as a tutor in Geography at the University of Sydney.
Email: jmcl2280@mail.usyd.edu.au |
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Fiona Miller |
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Fiona was awarded her PhD in 2003 for her
thesis entitled: “Society-Water Relations in the Mekong Delta,
Viet Nam: A Political Ecology of Risk”. Her thesis analyses the
changing nature of society-water relations in the Mekong Delta, Viet
Nam and explores the political ecology of water at multiple scales
through an analysis of the discourse and actions of various actors
involved in water resources management. Fiona is now working as a
Research Fellow in the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Risk,
Livelihoods and Vulnerability Programme (in Sweden). The overall goal
of this programme is to contribute to an improved understanding of
the vulnerability of poor and marginalised people to processes of
environmental change. Prior to joining SEI in August 2004 she worked
as an associate lecturer in Human Geography at Macquarie University,
teaching a course on resource management. Fiona is also involved in
the AMRC-led research project on Water Governance in Context.
Languages: Vietnamese.
Email: fiona.miller@sei.se
Publications: 2004
2003
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Kaviphone Phouthavong |
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Kavi has more than 7 years experience with
the socio-economics of livestock and fisheries in the Department of
Livestock and Veterinary Services in Laos (1991 -1997). From 1998
to 2002 he worked for the Living Aquatic Resources Research Center
(LARReC) as the head of the Data and Information Unit, where he was
responsible for database design and GIS support for fisheries research
surveys in Laos. At the same time he also worked with the MRC Assessment
of Mekong Fisheries project as a senior socio-economic and database
researcher. In 2000 he attended a 3 month GIS training course in the
Vitus Bering Center for Higher Education, Horsens, Denmark. Kavi completed
his Masters thesis, which looked at employing GIS as an analytical
and communication tool in coordination with local ecological knowledge
for monitoring fisheries in Laos, in early 2006.
Languages:
Lao, Russian
Email:
kpho3213@mail.usyd.edu.au |
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Kurt Morck Jensen |
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Dr Kurt Morck Jensen is
a Visiting Scholar from 30 August 2005 until the end of March 2006.
He has been working as Senior Adviser to the Danish government on
water and environment and has extensive international experience.
He has been responsible for managing Denmark’s assistance to
the Mekong River Commission. While at AMRC, Kurt will be helping
coordinate an inter-disciplinary study of water governance in the
Mekong River Basin. Languages: Danish, French, German, Bengali,
Arabic
Email: kjensen@geosci.usyd.edu.au |
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Sunil Pednekar |
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Four years on staff of Thailand Development Research
Institute’s Natural Resources and Environment Program; project
experience includes CIDA funded study on building NGO capacity in
natural resource management in mainland SE Asia; input into AusAID
funded study on natural resource management in the Mekong Basin; DANCED
funded input into Environmental Strategy for Thailand; assistance
in organising international conference held in February 1995 in Kunming,
China on "Regional Dialogue on Biodiversity and Natural Resource
Management in Mainland Southeast Asian Economies". Also researched
on shrimp farming and resource tenure in mainland SE Asia, with focus
on Thailand and Vietnam. Languages: Thai, Hindi. |
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Viliam Phraxayavong |
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Ten years experience in the economic and social
planning of Laos, pre 1975; was involved in the training of local
administrators in the implementation of the National Development
plans; was coordinator of foreign assistance at the Ministry of
Economic and Social Planning for ten years. From 1981-84, coordinator
of irrigation projects financed by international agencies. Currently
conducting PhD research on the impacts of foreign assistance on
rural development in the Lao PDR. Viliam participated in a project
on " Social and environmental policy implications of infrastructure
development in the Lao PDR: A case of Australian public and private
investment in Lao PDR" between NERI( National Economic Research
Institute under the State Planning Committee) and AMRC. The joint
project was conducted in 1999.
Languages: French, Lao and Thai
Email: vphraxayavong@hotmail.com
Publications: 2000 |
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Phonesavanh Daoheuang |
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Phonesavanh is a postgraduate student
at the University of Utah. In mid-2004 she worked as an intern at
the AMRC in Sydney, investigating competition and conflict in the
Nam Ngum watershed. Phonesavanh has been developing a computer model
that illustrates connections between society and resources in order
to assess sustainable management options. Her work will contribute
to an existing case study on the AMRC website.
Languages: Lao
Email: p.daoheuang@utah.edu |
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Daniel Robinson |
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Daniel completed his doctorate in geography
at the University of Sydney. With a background in environmental
science, environmental law as well as human geography, Daniel has
worked on natural resource policy with local and state authorities
in NSW, as an environmental consultant and on academic staff at
UNSW. Daniel has a strong interest in environmental and social legal
issues, particularly pertaining to trade and environment, property
relations, and indigenous/minority rights issues. Recently Daniel
was acting as a visiting researcher to the Policy Project on Tropical
Resources at the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC),
Bangkok. In 2005 Daniel acted as a project assistant/visiting researcher
on the UNCTAD-ICTSD Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development
Project at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
(ICTSD), Geneva. Supplementing his doctorate, Daniel was also a
PhD Scholar with the Intellectual Property Research Institute of
Australia (IPRIA) in Melbourne, looking at biodiversity-related
traditional knowledge and intellectual property issues. In 2008,
Daniel commenced a lecturing position at the Institute for Environmental
Studies, UNSW.
Languages: intermediate Thai, Mandarin Chinese
Email: danrob77@hotmail.com |
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Namura Takayuki |
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Takayuki Namura was a PhD candidate from the University
of Tokyo, looking at the forest management and land allocation policies
in Lao PDR. He has previously worked in Lao PDR on JICA projects.
Namura spent the first six months of 2000 at the AMRC and University
of Sydney doing background work into political ecology. He returned
to Tokyo with his wife and baby son in September 2000. Languages:
Japanese and Lao |
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Thi Bich Hang Pham |
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Graduated in geography from
the Hanoi National Pedagogic University in 1981 before commencing
work at the An Giang Teachers Training College where she taught physical
geography; further teaching experience at the National Political Institute. Commenced
post-graduate studies in cartography in 1989, progressing to PhD studies
in 1992. Hang completed her MA at Sydney University on women and culture
in Vietnam, focusing on war widows' experiences of change in the Mekong
and Red River Deltas since 1975. Languages: Vietnamese
Email: pham_bich_hang@hotmail.com |
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Malee Traisawasdichai Lang |
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Malee is a former environmental
journalist with Thailand's The Nation newspaper. She had
been covering social and environmental news for eight years since
1990, writing for various sections of the newspaper: feature, analysis
and commentary, editorial and daily hard news. For the four years
before she resigned from the newspaper to live in Denmark, she worked
on her weekly column "Mekong Watch". She researched at
the AMRC for her PhD thesis on popular participation in the development
planning process, trying to see how various forms of knowledge and
power are at work. The research focused on the different positions
and meanings of two systems of knowledge - the experts and the local
people - in the planning process. Pak Mool, Thailand, is one of
the case studies the research focused on. Languages: Thai
Email: maleedir@hotmail.com |
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Ryan Van Den Nouwelant |
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Ryan spent 2003 researching
the role of civil society in the Mekong Delta for his Honours thesis.
As an undergraduate he also participated in the Southeast Asia field
school in 2002. He has been involved with the AMRC in the production
of the Negotiating River Basin Management CD-ROM as well
as the Mekong Quest CD-ROM as a resource for Australian secondary
school students.
Languages: elementary Vietnamese |
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Chris Windeyer |
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Chris completed his B.A. in 2001 with geography
and history majors. He completed geography honours with a thesis focusing
on the impact of the internet on the medical industry in rural Australia.
He has travelled in the Philippines, Thailand and Nepal. Chris joined
the AMRC in 2001 as a volunteer research assistant and conducted research
on the Se San River Basin with the aim of designing a website detailing
current resource development issues in the area. In particular, he
directed his attention to hydropower development and the Yali Falls
dam. |
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Tim Wong |
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With a background in protected area (PA)
policy and management, Tim has been working for the last six years
in both the government and non-government sectors in Australia and
Asia. Completing his undergraduate studies at the ANU in 1997, Tim
joined Environment Australia where he worked on a wide range of wilderness
and World Heritage issues, including PA planning, and WH policy, with
a strong focus on indigenous issues. In 2001, Tim joined the Australian
Youth Ambassadors Program, and worked for IUCN - The World Conservation
Union for 12 months, based in the Asia-Regional Office in Thailand.
Encompassing several countries (Thailand, Lao PDR, Vietnam, China,
Malaysia and Cambodia), this work focused on the identification, management,
and protection of karst biodiversity and World Heritage in Asia, but
also included work on the RAMSAR Convention and other wetland and
water issues in the lower Mekong basin. Tim chose to stay with IUCN
on contract for an additional six months to undertake further karst
management work in China, before returning to Australia. Tim has undertaken
several short term work assignments for IUCN since this time. Tim
joined the AMRC in February 2003 under a research internship, assisting
the Centre to develop an Australian Research Council Linkages grant
looking at environmental flows in wetland PA's. Tim has recently completed
a Masters degree in the Department of Geography, University of Sydney.
His research focussed on the history of Thailand's oldest National
Park, Khao-Yai, and the various environmental and other discourses
of different actors, that have influenced the evolution of the Park
since its establishment.
Email: t_wongy@hotmail.com |
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Andrew Wyatt |
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Andrew worked with the ARMC
between 1997 and 2006. In his role as Research Program Manager he
was involved in developing and managing research grants and engaging
in AMRC's outreach role, representing the AMRC at events such as the
AusAid/Treasury-NGO Roundtable on MDBs. In his role as a Senior Research
Associate, he was based at Can Tho University in Vietnam where he
carried out fieldwork for a number of AMRC research projects in Vietnam
and the Mekong Region. Andrew has over 10 years experience in Australian
heavy engineering and is a returned Australian Volunteer Abroad having
spent two and a half years living and working in Papua New Guinea
from 1990 to 1992. He has a BSc (Hons) from Macquarie University and
University of Sydney. In 2004, he completed his PhD on 'Infrastructure
Development and BOOT in Laos and Vietnam: A Case Study of Collective
Action and Risk in Transitional Developing Economies'. His research
interest is in the political ecology of the Mekong Region.
Email: A.Wyatt@geography.usyd.edu.au
Publications: 2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
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Xiaojiang Yu |
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Xiaojiang joined the AMRC in April of 2001. Xiaojiang
has a PhD in Environmental Policy, International Development and Natural
Resource Management from Macquarie University. He is also a graduate
of Adelaide University with a Master of Environmental Studies and
has a degree in Power Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
His past research and work experiences have been focused on the social
and environmental issues related to economic development. His research
interest has been to develop a strategy for international aid and
regional cooperation with respect to sustainable development in the
Pacific Island region and Southeast Asia. He has extensive work experience
in government agencies, universities, industry companies and local
communities. His recent research examines cross-border energy/transport
projects in the GMS and their impacts on socio-environment and biodiversity.
Xiaojiang is currently lecturing in Environmental Management at Baptist
University, Hong Kong. Languages: Chinese |
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Yusheng Zhang |
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Yusheng has more than six years experience working for
the Chinese government. As a geologist, he is interested in environmental
and social problems associated with natural resource development in
developing countries. His research looks at the political-ecology
of mineral resources extraction in Yunnan, China, the Lanping mine
in particular. His thesis aims to analyze the causes and implications
of environmental changes brought about by mining, and to address social
equity issues arising from mining. Between October 2002 and January
2003 Yusheng carried out fieldwork in Yunnan on the effects of mining.
Languages: Chinese
Email: yzha0080@mail.usyd.edu.au |
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