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Philip Hirsch is Emeritus Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. He specializes in natural resource management, rural change, and the politics of the environment in Southeast Asia. From 1997 to 2017, he led the Mekong Research Group, engaging in collaborative research on a range of natural resource governance and livelihood development themes in the Mekong region. Phil has been working in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia since the early 1980s and is fluent in Thai and Lao, with rudimentary skills in Vietnamese and Khmer. His research encompasses numerous topics related to natural resource management, including river basin management, deforestation, environmental impacts of development, rural social differentiation, agrarian change, the role of NGOs in development, resource tenure, and community-based natural resource management. Throughout his career, he has participated in various collaborative field projects and secured funding from prominent institutions such as the Australian Research Council and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
University of Sydney • Sydney, Australia
Engaged in teaching and research in Human Geography, with a focus on Southeast Asia.
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