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Workshops

Workshop on Asia’s Carbon Territories: Infrastructure, Environment, and Society from the Age of Imperialism to the Climate Crisis, ARI, NUS & Singapore Art Museum (SAM), 23-24 February 2024 (convened in a hybrid format).

…”This workshop aims to address power configurations, inequalities, and unevenly distributed vulnerabilities and responsibilities across territories through understanding old and new forms of carbon colonization. Focused on Asia, it is concerned with the territorialization of carbon-based fuels and the governance of carbon sources and sinks (ranging, for example, from the imperial expansion of colonial coal mines and railway systems to the naturalization of the coastal environment to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide). It also examines how carbon may be de-territorialized by the state and other actors (such as through the obfuscation of polluted energy hinterlands and the prevailing failure to inventory and assign responsibility for cross-border flows of emissions outside sovereign territories). Scrutinizing the trajectory from the historical formation of energy infrastructure to contemporary carbon-neutral policies enables us to understand the social, political, and ecological consequences of the complex interactions between the rise and demise of fossil fuels and the related processes of territorialization and deterritorialization.  Encouraging interdisciplinary knowledge production between historians, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and architects, among many others, our workshop hopes to draw a comprehensive picture of the carbonization and decarbonization of Asia.”

Workshop on Governing Carbon for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Challenges and Opportunities for Southeast Asia, ARI, NUS, 19 January 2024 (convened in a hybrid format).

“The purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop is to present the preliminary findings of research undertaken through Singapore’s Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Thematic Grant program entitled Climate Governance of Nature-based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia. The workshop aims to understand the optimal arrangements for governing nature-based carbon sinks across sectors, administrative scales and disciplines. Presentations will locate nature-based carbon governance within socio-spatial contexts, potential financing mechanisms, power asymmetries and institutional cultures that shape their success or failure in the Southeast Asian region. The workshop will comprise presentations by members of our international research team, based on literature reviews and preliminary field work conducted since the grant’s inauguration in October 2022. The workshop format will involve 15-minute presentations of works in progress, followed by discussion. Selected presentations from this workshop will be developed for integration into a themed collection for submission to an international journal such as Climatic Change, Environmental Policy and Governance or Environmental Politics.”  

First External Advisory Board Meeting, ARI, NUS, 18 January 2024

Roundtable on Carbon Offsetting and Carbon Markets in Southeast Asia: What Role do they play in Climate Justice?, ARI, NUS, 7 August 2023 (convened in a hybrid format).
Speakers: Ms Hum Wei Mei (AirCarbon Exchange), Dr Lahiru Wijedasa (Birdlife International), Dr Micah Ingalls (Mekong Region Land Governance); moderated by: Dr Yingshan Lau. Asia Research Institute Seminar Series.

Mini-workshop on Social Science and Remote Sensing of Nature-based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia, ARI, NUS, 7 August 2023. Co-organised with Cornell University. 

Workshop on Exploring Blue Carbon and Synergistic Opportunities: Seagrass and Seaweed, ARI, NUS, 18-19 July 2023. Co-organised with Bandung Institute of Technology and Cornell University.

Introductory Workshop for Climate Governance of Nature-based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia Project, ARI, NUS, 18-19 May 2024 (convened in a hybrid format).

Themed panel organised at international conference

Salisbury D & Miller MA (2023) Co-organized two themed panels on Transboundary Political Ecology. American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, 27 March (panels convened in hybrid format).

Presentations and talks

Gevaña D (2024) Future-proofing mangrove blue carbon governance. Webinar on Wetlands and Blue Carbon, Co-organised by University Putra Malaysia & University of the Philippines, online, 2 May.  

Quevedo JMD (2024) Local perceptions of blue carbon ecosystem. Webinar on Wetlands and Blue Carbon, Co-organised by University Putra Malaysia & University of the Philippines, online, 2 May.   

Marks D (2024) Polluting the Air to Feed the Animals: Placing Food Production Systems within a Political Ecology of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. LEAP Conference, Organised by Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 16 April 2024.

Marks D (2023) Addressing the Drivers of Worsening Air Pollution in Laos’s Agriculture Sector. Land Information Working Group Study Session, Organised by the Land Information Working Group, Vientiane, Laos, 15 December.

Quevedo JMD (2023) Community Perceptions of Blue Carbon Ecosystems: Evaluating Ecosystem Services, Threats & Management Strategies. International Seminar on Sustaining Our Blue Planet: Blue Carbon Solution for Climate Change Mitigation, Organised by Sam Rataluangi University, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 28 November.

Gevaña D (2023) Burning Agricultural Waste and Climate Change Nexus: Policies, Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Agricultural Biomass Wastes. International Conference on Connecting the Dots on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development, Organised by the Department of Environment and Natural Resource of the Philippines, Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB), Manila, Philippines, 8-9 November 2023.

Quevedo JMD (2023) Capacity building of local communities for blue carbon projects. 15th Annual Meeting of the International Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group, Co-organised by Conservation International, IUCN, and International Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO), 4 October 2023.

Marks D (2023) An Embodied Political Ecology of Agricultural Burning in Thailand. RGS-IGB Conference, Organised by the Royal Geographic Society, London, United Kingdom, 28-30 August.  

Taylor, D (2023) The challenge of reducing net carbon emissions through natural carbon sinks and associated carbon offsets. Race to Zero series, Organised by KPMG Business Foundry, Singapore, 24 October 2023.

Gevaña D (2023) Lead organiser for the Forest Carbon Policy Forum: Challenges and opportunities for NCS through forest carbon projects in the Philippines at the Forestry Development Center, University of the Philippines Los Baños, 25 August 2023.

Miller MA (2023) A transboundary political ecology of terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems that have strong climate governance potential for Southeast Asia. 2023 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, 27 March 2023 (online presentation in hybrid panel).

Miller MA (2022) Displacement and Dispossession in Carbon Sink Governance: The Politics of Peatland Partnerships in Indonesia. Indonesia Social Science Seminar Series (IS4), Co-organised by Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC), the Cornell Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), 8 December 2022.

Gevaña D (2022) Status, challenges, and opportunities for Nature-based Solutions in the ASEAN Heritage Parks. Seventh ASEAN Heritage Parks Conference (AHP 7), Bogor, Indonesia, 31 October-3 November 2022.