Rethinking Environmental Governance

Rethinking Environmental Governance brings to light the pluralistic views, diverse forces, and multiple realities (re)shaping formal and informal decision-making structures, processes, and power interplay in environmental governance. Linking socio-economic drivers with the evolution of cultural norms, the (re)shaping of institutional arrangements, and ever-changing power relations, the book looks at processes of institutional emergence across spatio-temporal scales. Through case study illustrations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, it illustrates how actors and institutions (co)produced political spaces of engagement as an integral part of their livelihood (re)making.

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.

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.

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.