Keith Barney
Associate Professor & Head of Department: Resources, Environment, and Development Group
Qualifications
Ph.D. (Geography, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2011) M.E.S. (Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2002) B.Sc. (Biological Science, University of Guelph, Canada, 1998)
Keith was a 2018 Nominee for an ANU Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research Supervision (Early Career Category):
Primary Doctoral Supervision/Panel Chair
Current Students
Vita Elysia- Examining sanitation provision in Jakarta’s kampungs: Access, risk and rights to the city
- Vita Elysia (2021) “Fieldwork Documentary: Sanitation access and vulnerability in informal settlements in Jakarta”
Zarin Yesmin Chaity
Graduated Students
Dr. Kanya Souksakoun- Towards sustainable hydropower: Policy implementation and livelihood transformation in the Sekong Basin, Laos
- Barney, K. and K. Souksakoun (2022). ‘Going Under? Belt and Road Megaprojects and Sovereign Debt in Laos’ New Mandala: New Perspectives on Mainland Southeast Asia. Republished on 9DashLine: Navigating Fault Lines from Asia to the Indo-Pacific. 21 Jan. 2022.
- Barney, K. and K. Souksakoun (2021). “Credit Crunch: Chinese Infrastructure Lending and Lao Sovereign Debt.” Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. 8: 94-113.
Dr. Christina Griffin- Dissertation: Vulnerability, livelihoods and disaster knowledge in the volcanic highlands of Central Java, Indonesia: ‘Itu sudah biasa’ (2018)
- Griffin, C. and K. Barney (2020). “Local Disaster Knowledge: Towards a Plural Understanding of Volcanic Disasters in Central Java’s Highlands, Indonesia.” Geographical Journal. 187(1): 2-15.
- Griffin, C. (2019). “Prosperity Beyond Belief: The Interaction Between a Potato Crop Boom, Vulnerability and Volcanic Hazard in Central Java, Indonesia.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 41(1): 23-39.
- Griffin, C. (2018). “The Dieng ‘Hazardscape’: A Political Ecology of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in Java’s Central Highlands.” Environmental Hazards. 18(1): 26-42.
Associate Supervision on Doctoral Panels
Current Students
Jed Alegado - Rethinking an alternative development path in the Global South: Unpacking Philippines’ zero waste community sites as a pathway for de-growth
Ananda Devkota- Rural livelihoods and vulnerability to environmental and socio-economic change: A comparative case of high value agriculture in the mid-hills of Nepal
Graduated Students
Dr. Soytavanh Mienmany- Riding the boom: Rural households’ participation and livelihood outcomes associated with teak, banana, and cassava crops in Northern Laos
Soytavanh Mienmany: Three ArcGIS StoryMaps of China-linked agricultural and forestry crop booms in northern Laos
Dr. Alex Van der Meer Simo- More than the trees: A comparative study of the contribution of four tree plantation models to rural livelihoods in Lao PDR
Alex Van der Meer Simo “A PhD Forged in the Fire of Life”
- Van Der Meer Simo, A., P. Kanowski and K. Barney (2020). “The Role of Agroforestry in Swidden Transitions: A Case Study in the Context of Customary Land Tenure in Central Lao PDR.” Agroforestry Systems. 94: 1929–1944
- Van Der Meer Simo, A., P. Kanowski and K. Barney (2020). “Economic Returns to Households Participating in Models of Commercial Tree Plantations in Lao PDR.” International Forestry Review. 22(1): 1-21
- Barney, K. and A. Van der Meer Simo (2019). “Forest-Land Commons in Laos in the Twenty-First Century: Agrarian Capitalism and the ‘Non-Commodified Subsistence Guarantee.’” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Issue 25. (also translated into Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tagalog)
- Van der Meer Simo, A., P. Kanowski and K. Barney (2018). “Revealing Environmental Income in Rural Livelihoods: Evidence from Four Villages in Lao PDR.” Forests, Trees and Livelihoods. 28(1): 16-33.
Dr. Ahmad Dhiaulhaq- Dissertation: Environmental justice and the political economy of land conflict resolution in Indonesia’s forestry and palm oil sectors (2020)
Dr. Hua Hong Hieu- Dissertation: Farmers’ decision-making in relation to rice-based farming systems in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (2019)
Dr. Mohit Chaturvedi- Dissertation: Changing practices of meat consumption amongst Hindus in a north Indian town (2019)
Dr. Khaing Khaing Soe- Dissertation: The interaction of community forestry with rural livelihoods in Myanmar: Challenges and opportunities (2018)
Selected Masters Research Project/Internship/Thesis Supervision
2023: Simon Caldwell: “An analysis of public and private regulation of sustainable development in the construction of multi-storey buildings in South Australia”
2022:
Yushi Wu: “It’s luxurious. It’s lucky. You should drink this’: Meaning and (dis)association in the consumption of edible birds’ nests in Australia”
2020:
Zarin Yesmin Chaity: “Seeing the river through women’s eyes: A feminist political ecology of the Teesta River, Bangladesh” Winner of a 2020 ANU Gender Institute prize for excellence in gender and sexuality research, Masters level
Md. Kabir Hossain: “Water-logging in Jashore District, Bangladesh: Measures for effective community participation in Tidal River Management”
2019:
Sandy Nofyanza: The political economy of ‘Kaltim Green’: Insights from the coal mining and oil palm sectors in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Nofyanza, S., K. Barney, S. Peteru, R. Paembonan and R. Kristanti (2021). The Politics of the Green Economy in Provincial Indonesia: Insights from Coal and Oil Palm Sector Reforms in East Kalimantan. Bogor: Centre for International Forestry Research.
Sandy is currently a PhD student at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK
Sayuri Ichikawa: Gendered value chain analysis of small-scale fisheries in Myanmar.
Ichikawa, S. (2019). “Notes from the Field: What Does ‘Gender’ Mean in Myanmar’s Rural Fishery Communities?” Ecology, Economy and Society. 2(2): 111-116.
- Testimonial from Sayuri Ichikawa on studying in the Environmental Management and Development program at the ANU Crawford School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnzQf5ow2QA
2017:
Nga Thi Ha: Investigating the Role of Market Incentives and Local State Actors for Group Forest Certification in Vietnam
2015:
Rodney Kirarock: The Development of Pacifical Co-Branding in the Parties to the Nauru Agreement
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