Rethinking Environmental Governance

Diana Suhardiman is a professor of natural resource governance, climate and equity at Leiden University and director at KITLV. Putting power and politics central in the contemporary struggles of natural resource governance, her most recent research looks at grassroots climate governance in Southeast Asia, where she focuses on the politics of knowledge (re)production processes in various socio-ecological systems. Her research looks at various forms of knowledge (re)production processes including through unconventional knowledge systems and other ways of knowing, embedded in lived experience, memories, and the arts.Melissa Marschke is a professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her training is in human-environment relations, with an emphasis on labour, social-ecological change, and resource governance. Current research projects include: (a) changing work at sea (improving working conditions across the seafood sector), (b) just seafood (examining the importance of forage fish; considering the potential of due diligence policies), and (c) unpacking livelihood precarity in the sand system.Jonathan Rigg is a professor of human geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. His work focuses on questions of agrarian, livelihood and environmental change in Southeast and South Asia and he has undertaken fieldwork in Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Jonathan has authored more than 100 papers and ten books and is currently researching extreme weather and outdoor work in Vietnam and completing a book on longitudinal change in rural Thailand.

• 1. Environmental Governance and Livelihood (Re)making: Two Sides of the Same Coin? – Diana Suhardiman, Jonathan Rigg, and Melissa Marschke; 2. History of Environmental Governance and Postcolonial Politics: The Indonesian Case – Farabi Fakih and Bambang Purwanto; 3. Where Does the Boundary Fall? Conservation Assemblages and Their Discontents in a Protected Area, Northern Cambodia – Jean-Christophe Diepart, Tim Frewer, and Natalia Scurrrah; 4. (Re)thinking Environmental Governance in the Changing Climate Context of Northwestern Ghana – Charity Osei-Amposah, Andrew Emmanuel Okem, Julius Nornoo, and Felix Puopiel; 5. Grabbing River Rhythms: Fishing Communities and Water Justice in Two Swamps of the Magdalena River – Juliana Forigua-Sandoval, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, and Rutgerd Boelens; 6. Prahok Fish Processing: Insights into Marginalised, Female Livelihoods at the Tonlé Sap Lake, Cambodia – Colleen Cranmer; 7. The Struggle to Make a Living: How EU IUU Fishing Policy Impoverishes Local Fisheries' Livelihoods in Vietnam – Tong Thi Hai Hanh and Alin Kadfak; 8. Livelihood Transitions To and Away from the Coal Economy in India – Patrik Oskarsson, Suravee Nayak, and Nikas Kindo; 9. Deciding from Far-Away, Implementing without Local Consent: A Historical Perspective on Environmental Governance of the Bengawan Solo River in East Java – Adrian Perkasa, Paul Rabé, and Akhmad Ryan Pratama; 10. Water Diplomacy and Transboundary Water Governance in the Lower Mekong Basin: Towards Inclusivity? – Oliver Hensengerth; 11. Karen Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Governance: Integrating Knowledge, Culture, and Political Agency – Diana Suhardiman, Saw Blaw Htoo, Saw Paul Sein Twa, and Charlotte Clare