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is a Fellow with RMAP and works as a community and gender specialist in natural resource management, primarily in South Asia. Her research focus includes the social impacts of coal mining and studying the interface between large-scale mining and the community with emphasis on community empowerment.

For further information or to register your interest in attending or presenting a paper, please contact Sophie Dowling at sophie.dowling@anu.edu.au or 6125 3374.

are challenged to address whether ‘sustainable palm oil’ is merely greenwash?
Assoc Prof Lesley Potter will be the Argument Moderator.
Panel members have summarised their positions and welcome comment

Our eminent panel debate whether the logging of New Guinea’s native forests can be justified as an activity whose economic benefits outweigh its political, social and environmental costs.
Dr Colin Filer will be the Argument Moderator
Visit the RMAP Blog for ongoing discussion and commentary

is a PhD Candidate in the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program. Her PhD study looks at the influences on co-operative relationships between the Department of Conservation and Maori in a World Heritage national park. Her background is in New Zealand history.

has worked on international development and climate change economics and policy since 1998. He has analysed options for future international climate policy using economic theory, quantitative models, and less formal policy analysis. He currently also works as an advisor to the Garnaut Climate Change Review.

is a lecturer in social anthropology at Durham University in the UK. She works in the Kutubu and Ok Tedi regions of Papua New Guinea where non-renewable resource extraction projects (oil and copper respectively) are currently operating.

will share a panel arguing the logic, merits and drawbacks associated with growing rice in Australia. Dr Mike Bourke will be the Argument Moderator.

has research interests that broadly encompass livelihoods, relationships and politics in resource governance, with current projects in collaborative forest management and payments for environmental services.

has a Bachelor degree in marine science from the University of Riau, Indonesia (1996) and Masters degree from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand (2001). Prior to taking up his PhD, he held the position of planner with the Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research in the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia for five years.

is a Visiting Fellow at RMAP and Social Geographer at Jawaharlal Nehru University, interested in urban and rural development with a focus on gendered disparities in the labour market, literacy, education and empowerment in India.

is the Convenor of RMAP and has research interests that include the social context and impact of resource management policies and resource conservation or development projects in Melanesia.

is a Postdoc Fellow with Anthropolgy and Natural History, ANU

is a PhD student at RMAP whose research has involved three years living and working in Cambodia. Her research interests lie in the areas of agricultural trade and development, commodity chain analysis, development theory and practice.

will unravel the complex issues surrounding the relative merits and shortcomings of marine parks.

is a PhD student in RMAP investigating a framework for sustainable mine closure in Indonesia.

is a PhD student in RMAP investigating the informal small-scale mining practices in Indonesia and their significance to the community in surrounding areas.

has a PhD in Anthropology (1997) from the Australian National University (RSPAS), MSc in Environmental Technology (1985), the Imperical College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal ANTROPOLOGI INDONESIA published by the Department of Anthropology, University of Indonesia (1998-2004) and currently holds the Academy Professorship Indonesia's position.
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Copies of the DVD can be ordered by contacting rmap.seminars@anu.edu.au
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present the first in the 2008, RMAP Argument Series.

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completed his Bachelor of Social Sciences in Economics and Masters of Social Sciences in Economics at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1991 and 1993 respectively. He is now posted at Bangladesh High Commission in Canberra as Counsellor.

is a leading international expert on the policy dimensions of greenhouse gas emissions trading and energy policy, and has been closely involved in the development of the EU’s national allocation plans, and the review of the EU emissions trading scheme for the post-2012 period. He has been a senior scientist at the Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology) since 1990 and was Deputy Director from 2002-2004, and is currently a visiting lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and a visiting scientist at MIT.

is currently professor in landscape & agricultural geography. Her research addresses issues related to natural resource management strategies in rural landscapes, including adaptation to climate change. The focus is on land use and land cover systems viewed in a landscape ecological perspective as well as in an interdisciplinary perspective, such as relating land use dynamics to their larger scale contexts of biophysical, cultural, socio-economic, institutional or demographic nature.

began his career as an Australian journalist reporting on economic and social policy, and on Southeast Asia. After serving a decade in Australia’s national press gallery he was awarded a Chevening Fellowship by the UK Foreign Office, and after completing studies in London was appointed by the World Bank as an advisor to the Prime Minister of East Timor on the Timor Sea oil and gas negotiations.

works on environmental governance in Asia. He specializes on the politics of science and expertise, and the relationships with civil society, and the dilemmas of implementing global environmental policy at the local level.

are geographers who have worked in PNG since the mid 1980s. Much of their research has been on smallholder livelihood practices, socio-economic change, and migration, with fieldwork in ENB, WNB, Oro and the Sepik.