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Staff Blogs and Networks

This page comprises a listing of blogs and networks that are coordinated by RMAP staff.

Blogs

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Gender and Water Community

RMAP peopleKuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Partner Institutions:Gender Water Alliance
Blog summaryThe blog is open to anyone working on or interested in looking at water resources - the representations, institutions, rules, laws, policies, groups and individuals, participation, ecologies and systems - of water management 'through a gender lens'.
Start Date: March 2007
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NewMandala - new perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia

RMAP people: Andrew Walker
Partner:Nicholas Farrelly
Blog Summary:Anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland southeast Asia.
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RMAP Blog

RMAP people: Staff, students and resident visiting fellows
Blog Summary:Debates on topical and controversial issues related to environmental and resource management through anecdotes, analysis and discussion forums. The RMAP Blog also has the latest news from the program including information on forthcoming seminars, book releases, published articles, new grant fundings and awards to staff and students
Start Date: February 2007

Networks

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ANU Knowledge and Society Research Group

RMAP peopleAndrew Walker
Partner institutionsANU Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
Network summaryThis is a group of ANU-based scholars interested in facilitating discussions and research on the production and transmission of knowledge in various cultural and social settings, both historical and contemporary.
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Asia-Pacific Learning Forum

RMAP people: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Colin Filer
Partner Institutions:Mine Labour Protection Campaign, Chotanagpur Adivasi Seba Samiti, National Institute of Small Mines, Philippines Sustainable Development Network, Local Government Unit of Itogon Municipality (Philippines), Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Wau Ecology Institute in Papua New Guinea
Network Summary:The ASM Asia-Pacific Learning Forum will document and disseminate concrete examples of equitable, effective, and sustainable local-level partnerships which include small-scale miners or their communities as a guide to the development of better policy and practice in the different jurisdictions of the Asia-Pacific region.
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Empowering Communities

RMAP people: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Colin Filer
Partner institutions: PT Kaltim Prima Coal
Network summary: This website serves as a central hub for the dissemination of information as part of the ARC Linkage project "Creating Empowered Communities: Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in a Coal Mining Region in Indonesia". The website includes links to documentation hosted on other websites and materials relating specifically to the KPC project and its area of impact.
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Gender Water Network

RMAP peopleKuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Partner institutionsANU Institute for Environment
Network summaryThe Gender Water Network (GWN) links students, professionals and researchers with interests in the fields of gender and water management in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Human Ecosystems Modelling with Agents (HEMA) RMAP

RMAP people: Pascal Perez, Anne Dray, Natalie Jones
Partner Institutions:ANU, CSIRO, CIRAD, CEMAGREF
Network Summary:Network summary: HEMA was created to encourage the development of multi-agent systems - often called agent-based models - to better our understanding of profound problems arising in the interactions within and between human social systems and natural biophysical systems. Members of the network should provide innovative, synthetic and integrative research on the influence of people's perceptions and behaviour upon the resilience of a given ecosystem.
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PalaeoWorks

RMAP peopleSimon Haberle
Partner institutionsRSPAS Dept of Archaeology & Natural History (ANU)
Network summaryPalaeoWorks is a portal to key resources being developed to facilitate palaeobotanical and archaeobotanical research in the Asia-Pacific region.
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