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Reader in Environment and Development
Department of International Development (ID)
Biography
Dr Forsyth is a specialist on environment and development, with a focus on social and political theory and environmental governance. He has written on political ecology and environmental science, and on new ways to implement global environmental policy (such as the climate change convention) in developing countries through partnerships between state and non-state actors. He has degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London, and has held positions at the LSE since 1995. He has also worked as a fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House); the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex; and at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has more than five years' work and research experience in Asia, and is fluent in Thai. Dr Forsyth is also the general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Development, and a co-editor of the journal, Progress in Development Studies|.
Research interests and area of supervision
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Politics, Environment
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Environment and Development/political ecology
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Environmental governance
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Science and Technology Studies
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Implementing global environmental policy in developing countries
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Asia, especially Southeast Asia
Selected recent publications
Books
Papers
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2005 (forthcoming): 'Building deliberative public-private partnerships for waste management in Asia,' Geoforum 36:4.
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2005: 'Enhancing climate technology transfer through greater public-private cooperation: lessons from Thailand and the Philippines,' Natural Resource Forum 29: 165-176.
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2005: 'The Political Ecology of the Ecosystem Approach for Forests,' in Sayer, J (ed) The Ecosystem Approach for International Conservation, Gland WWF and IUCN.
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2004: 'Social movements and environmental democratization in Thailand', pp195-216 in Jasanoff, S and Long, M (eds) Earthy Politics: local and global in environmental governance, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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2004: 'Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand,' in Peet, R and Watts, M (eds) Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development and Social Movements (second edition), pp 422-438 (London and New York: Routledge).
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2003: 'Climate change investment and technology transfer in Southeast Asia', pp 237-257 in Harris, P (ed) Climate Change and East Asia: The politics of global warming in China and East Asia, London and New York: Routledge.
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2002: 'Environmental social movements in Thailand: a critical assessment,' Asian Review 15:106-127.
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2002: 'In the eyes of the state: negotiating a 'rights-based approach' to forest governance in Thailand,' World Development 30:9 1591-1605 (with Craig Johnson)
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