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Reserachers working on CLIMATE CHANGE (alphabetical order)
Chris BALLARD Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Shefa (Vanuatu), New Caledonia , Papua New Guinea , Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Southern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), Morobe (Papua New Guinea), Western (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , Historical Consciousness , Landscape , Narratives , Historical Imagination , First Contacts , Climate Change , Disaster Studies , Drawing
Giovanni BENNARDO Professor, Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Tonga Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Comparative Studies , Kinship , Knowledge , Language , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Semantics-Pragmatics , Social Network Analysis , Social Organization
Rudy BESSARD Research Fellow, Montesquieu Center of Political Researches / Governance and Insular Development Laboratory at University of Bordeaux / University of French Polynesia, FranceAdministrative areas: French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Big-manship , Climate Change , Citizenship , Democracy , Globalization , Governance , Political Process , Regional Integration , Politics , Social-ecological System
Valerie BOLL Independent researcher, Anthropology at South Australian Museum, Adelaide, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Northern Territory (Australia), Queensland (Australia)Places: Australia (area), Australia (country)Keywords: Anthropological Field Records , Climate Change , Cognitive Anthropology , Conservation , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Environment , Ethnobotany , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Land Management
Camilla BORREVIK PhD Student, Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen Pacific Studies at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Palau , Fiji , Solomon Islands , Australia , Hawaii Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Climate Policy , Climate Change Migration , Conservation , Cultural Change , Democracy , Diplomacy , Environment , Epistemology , Globalization
Richard Michael ('Mike') BOURKE Associate Professor, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu , Solomon Islands Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Agriculture , Climate Change , Farming Systems , Food and Nutrition , Gardens , Horticulture , Subsistence Economy , Techniques , Taro , Sweet Potato
Agnes BRANDT Other staff at European Parliament, BelgiumAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Auckland (New Zealand), Wellington (New Zealand)Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Agency , Biculturalism , Climate Change , Climate Policy , Feminism , Gender , Identity , Indigenous Epistemology , Inter-ethnic Relations , Relatedness
Tom BRATRUD Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Malampa (Vanuatu), Shefa (Vanuatu), Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Morality , Social Change , Social Organization , Complexity , Politics , Climate Change , Cosmology , Christianity , Sorcery
Jenny BRYANT-TOKALAU Associate Professor, Te Tumu, School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at University of Otago, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Fiji Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Conservation , Development , Environment , Land Tenure , Natural Resources , Poverty , Social Change , Urbanization
Colleen BUTCHER-GOLLACH Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at University of Melbourne, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Development , Disaster , Governance , Housing , Infrastructure , Land Tenure , Urbanization , Poverty , Rural / Urban Atolls
Guigone CAMUS Independent researcher, University of French Polynesia, FranceAdministrative areas: Kiribati , Hawaii , New Caledonia , Fiji , French Polynesia , Wallis and Futuna Places: Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cosmology , Myth , Land Tenure , History , Environment , Climate Change , Diasporas , Conflict , Christianisation , Art
Laurence Marshall CARUCCI Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Montana State University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Marshall Islands Places: Marshall IslandsKeywords: Adoption , Age and Aging , Anthropological Fieldwork , Body , Christianity , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Literature , Colonialism
Philip CASS Senior Lecturer, Applied Management at Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Australia , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , Fiji Places: Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, VanuatuKeywords: Newspaper History , Mission Publishing , Language Policy , Religion and the Media , Media And National Identity , Pacific Diasporic Media , Journalism , Newspapers , Communication , Climate Change
Emilie CHEVALIER PhD Student, GEOLAB at University of Limoges, FranceAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , Australia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , French Overseas Territories , Migration , Political Ecology , Post-Colonialism , Space
Ali CLARK Curator, Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Australia , Kiribati , Marshall Islands Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Art , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Custom , Cultural Change , Exhibitions , Material Culture , Museums
John COX Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Kiribati , Fiji Places: Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Christianity , Citizenship , Class , Climate Change , Cultural Change , Democracy , Development , Development Media , Economic Anthropology , Economy and Finance
Tony CROOK Senior Lecturer, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Province (Fly)Keywords: Knowledge , Secrecy , Ritual , Kinship , Gender , Horticulture , Mining , Climate Change , Pacific Regional Politics , Development
Paul D'ARCY Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , French Polynesia , Guam , Hawaii , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Northern Mariana Islands , Palau , Papua New Guinea , Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tonga , Vanuatu Keywords: Climate Change , Agency , Anthropology , Conflict Resolution , Coral Reefs , Cultural Geography , Development Studies , Fisheries , Food History , History
Frederick H. DAMON Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Virginia, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Australia (area), Papua New GuineaKeywords: Austronesian Prehistory , Climate Change , Complexity , Death and Bereavement , Ecology , Economic Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Exchanges , Kula , Mortuary Rites
Kirsten Davies DAVIES Lecturer, Dept of Environmental Sciences & Law School at Macquarie University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Sanma (Vanuatu), Vanuatu , Australia Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Vanuatu, New South WalesKeywords: Social-ecological System , Population and Development , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Climate Change , Cultural Change , Ecology , Higher Education , Heritage Management , Governance
Douchin DIMITRI Keywords: Cultural Astronomy , Climate Change , Cosmology , Critical History , Cultural Landscapes
Greg DVORAK Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, JapanAdministrative areas: Marshall Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Hawaii , Guam , Palau , Northern Mariana Islands , Cook Islands , Tonga , New Zealand , French Polynesia , New Caledonia , Australia Places: Micronesia, Marshall IslandsKeywords: Post-Colonialism , Self-Determination , World War II , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Studies , Critical History , Commemoration , Gender , Sexuality
Elodie FACHE Research Fellow, UMR SENS (Savoirs, Environnement et Sociétés / Knowledge, Environment and Societies) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, FranceAdministrative areas: Australia , Northern Territory (Australia), Fiji , Eastern (Fiji)Places: Australia (area), Australia (country), Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, Fiji Islands, Lomaiviti archipelago, Gau, Lau archipelago, Cicia, Kadavu archipelago, Kadavu, Vanuatu, New CaledoniaKeywords: Environment , Development , Sustainability , Conservation , Land Management , Sea Management , Small-scale Fisheries , Marine Protected Areas , Governance , Climate Change
Hannah FAIR PhD Student, Geography at University College London, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Vanuatu Keywords: Climate Change , Social Movement
Patricia FIFITA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesAdministrative areas: Tonga , New Zealand , Solomon Islands , Hawaii , American Samoa , Guam Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Indigenous Epistemology , Colonialism , Biomedicine , Gender , Non Communicable Diseases , Political Economy , Traditional Ecological Knowledge , Climate Change
Alison FLEMING Independent researcher, European Programme at Fridtjof Nansen Institute, NorwayAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Australia , Shefa (Vanuatu)Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Climate Change , Cultural Heritage , Tourism , Sustainability , Social-ecological System , Resilience , Pacific Regional Politics , Natural Resources , Land Tenure , Interdisciplinarity
Elfriede HERMANN Professor, Institut für Ethnologie at University of Goettingen, GermanyAdministrative areas: Fiji , Kiribati , Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Migration , Ethnicity , Gender , Social Movement , Ethnopsychology , Cultural Transformation , Transculturation
Desirée HETZEL Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for European Ethnology/IRI THESYs at Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyAdministrative areas: Vanuatu Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Environmental Anthropology , Climate Change , Horticulture , Indigenous Political Movements , Climate Change Adaptation , Livelihoods , Resilience And Indigenous Communities , Water
Rebecca HOFMANN , Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich, GermanyAdministrative areas: Chuuk (Federated States of Micronesia), Guam Keywords: Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Cosmology , Diasporas , Disaster , Environment , Land Tenure , Migration , Natural Hazards , Social-ecological System
Elisabeth HOLLAND Professor, Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development at University of the South Pacific, NauruAdministrative areas: Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Niue , Palau , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Tonga , Tuvalu , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Oceania , Ocean Acidification , Pacific Studies , Sustainable Development , Sustainability
Edvard HVIDING Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen Pacific Studies at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands , Western (Solomon Islands), Hawaii , Cook Islands , Fiji Places: Melanesia, Solomon Islands, New Georgia Islands, Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia, Vangunu, NggatokaeKeywords: Social Organization , Cultural Heritage , Environment , Climate Change , Indigenous Political Movements , Ethnobiology , Art , Dance , Performance , Diplomacy
Jerry Keith JACKA Professor, Anthropology at University of Colorado Boulder, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Keywords: Development , Environmental Anthropology , Climate Change
Sergio JARILLO Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Anthropology at American Museum of Natural History, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Keywords: Material Culture , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Climate Change , Christianity , Art , Cosmology , Cutural Change , Emotions , Ethnographic Filmmaking , Museums
Wolfgang KEMPF Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Goettingen, GermanyAdministrative areas: Fiji , Kiribati , Papua New Guinea , Madang (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Christianity , Diasporas , Biographic Research , Memory , Religion , Performance , Migration , Power and Resistance
stuart KIRSCH Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Michigan, United StatesPlaces: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Solomon IslandsKeywords: Climate Change , Engaged Anthropology , Industrial Ethnography , Open Futures , Political Ecology , Property
Silja KLEPP Professor, Institute of Geography at Kiel University, GermanyAdministrative areas: Fiji , Kiribati Places: Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Cutural Change , Eco-anthropology , Environment , Epistemology , Governance , Labour Mobility , Legal Pluralism , Neo-Colonialism
Carola KLÖCK Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB) at University of Antwerp, BelgiumKeywords: Climate Change , Climate Policy , Coastal Erosion , Development Studies , Governance , Environment , Politics , Sustainability , Development
Hervé Raimana LALLEMANT-MOE Other staff, Law at University of French Polynesia, French PolynesiaAdministrative areas: French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Disaster , Ecology , Environment , Governance , Political Ecology , Sustainability
Guillaume LE PORT Independent researcher, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, French PolynesiaAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , Fiji , Kiribati , Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Tongatapu (Tonga), Vanuatu , Wallis and Futuna Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Conservation , Ecology , Fisheries , French Overseas Territories , Marine Biodiversity , Natural Hazards , Social-ecological System , Tourism , Coastal Erosion
Esméralda LONGÉPÉE , PhD, Insitute of Littoral and Environnement - LIENSs UMR 7266 at University of La Rochelle, FranceAdministrative areas: Kiribati Places: MicronesiaKeywords: Resilience , Social-ecological System , Natural Hazards , Climate Change , Rural / Urban Atolls , Conceptual Model , Complexity , Natural Resources , Land Tenure , Environment
Carol Elizabeth MAYER Administrative areas: Australia , Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia (area), PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropology of Knoweldge , Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Customary Law , Worldview , Visual Anthropology , Tapa , Sustainable Development
Nathan MCALLISTER PhD Student, Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Kula , Kastom , Education , Christianity , Climate Change , Cutural Change , Law and Culture , Mining , Mortuary Rites , Care
Malaika MIKAELSSON PhD Student, Department of Thematic Studies: Environmental Change at Linköping University, SwedenPlaces: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Small Island Developing States (SIDS) , Regionalism , Sovereignty , Geopolitics , Agency , Pacific Diplomacy , Post-Colonialism , Subaltern Geopolitics
Anke MOESINGER PhD Student, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany at University of Bremen, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands Places: Melanesia, Rendova, Lokuru, Polynesia, Bougainville province, Buka, Takuu, Tetepare, MundaKeywords: Climate Change , Natural Resources , Social Change , Political Ecology , Perception , Social Organization , Small-scale Fisheries , Local Ecological Knowledge , Local/folk Taxonomy , Coral Reef Ecology
Carlos MONDRAGON Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, MexicoAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Solomon Islands , Indonesia , New Caledonia , Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Indigenous Epistemology , Climate Change , Climate Policy , Anthropology of Ontology , Cultural Geography , Ecology , First Contacts , History , Horticulture , Knowledge
Arnaud NOURY Independent researcher, FranceAdministrative areas: Fiji , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , New Caledonia , Papua New Guinea , Tonga , Samoa , Wallis and Futuna , Indonesia Places: Melanesia, Polynesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Art , Austronesian Languages , Climate Change , Cosmology , Digital Resources , Myth , History , Austronesian Prehistory , Pacific Studies , Ritual Studies
Patrick NUNN Professor, Sustainability Research Centre at University of the Sunshine Coast, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Guam , Kiribati , Niue , Palau , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tonga , Vanuatu , Federated States of Micronesia Places: Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Palau, Niue, Samoa, TongaKeywords: Climate Change , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Human Ecology , Indigenous Knowledge , Kava , Landscape , Myth , Religion And The Environment , Sustainable Development
Peter NUTTALL Senior Research Fellow, School of Marine Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: Cook Islands , Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Niue , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , Wallis and Futuna Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Canoes , Climate Change , Climate Policy , Transport , Voyaging , Technology
Arno PASCHT Research Fellow, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, GermanyAdministrative areas: Cook Islands , Vanuatu Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Political Anthropology , Leadership , Legal Pluralism , Cultural Change , Environment , Climate Change
Simonne PAUWELS Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Fiji , Indonesia , Maluku (Indonesia), Nusa Tenggara Timur (Indonesia)Places: Melanesia, Fiji Islands, Lau archipelago, Taveuni, LakebaKeywords: Climate Change , Environment , First Contacts , Fisheries , Gender , Governance , Kinship , Ritual , Social Organization , Social Change
Cecilie RUBOW Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, DenmarkAdministrative areas: Cook Islands Keywords: Climate Change
JC SALYER Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department and Human Rights Program at Barnard College, Columbia University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Anthropology , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Human Rights , Law and Culture , Migration
Marie SCHLENKER PhD Student, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at University of Southampton, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Natural Hazards
Roy SMITH Senior Lecturer, Dept of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Palau , Tuvalu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Citizenship , Climate Change , Conflict , Diasporas , Disaster , Environment , Food and Nutrition , Globalization , Migration , Nuclear Issues
Upolu Luma VAAI Senior Lecturer, HoD Theology and Ethics Department at Pacific Theological College, FijiAdministrative areas: Fiji , Samoa , American Samoa , Tokelau , Solomon Islands , Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu , Kiribati , Tuvalu , Cook Islands Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Christianity , Pacific Relational Hermeneutics , Relational Theology , Relational Ethics , Pacific Epistemology , Climate Change , Colonialism , Economy And Justice
Toon VAN MEIJL Professor, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies - Dept. of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, NetherlandsAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Fiji , Hawaii , Tonga Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Anti-colonial , Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Corporations , Cultural Heritage , Identity , Indigenous Politics , Intellectual Property Rights , Land Dispute
Joeli VEITAYAKI Associate Professor, School of Marine Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: Fiji , Solomon Islands , Tuvalu , Cook Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Papua New Guinea , Federated States of Micronesia , Samoa , Vanuatu , Palau , Kiribati , Niue , Marshall Islands , Nauru , French Polynesia , New Caledonia , Hawaii Keywords: Climate Change , Conservation , Cultural Geography , Fisheries , Natural Resources , Natural Hazards , Sustainability
Gabriele WEICHART Senior Lecturer, Social and Cultural Anthropology (Department of Social Research) at University of Vienna, AustriaAdministrative areas: Australia Places: Australia (area)Keywords: Architectural Anthropology , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Change , Disaster , Food and Nutrition , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Material Culture , Memory
Carsten WERGIN Associate Professor, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, GermanyAdministrative areas: Australia , Western Australia (Australia)Places: Australia (country), Western AustraliaKeywords: Audiovisual and Media , Climate Change , Conflict Management , Conservation , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Culture-nature Relations , Decolonisation , Diasporas , Environmental Anthropology , Global Health
Paige WEST Professor, Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University , United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Australia Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Cultural Anthropology , Environment , Dispossession , Climate Change , Development , Migration , The Imagination , Tourism , Anthropology Of Sciences
Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, VanuatuAdministrative areas: Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Niue , Palau , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Human Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Climate Change Migration , Climate Policy , Intergenerational Equity , International Relationships , Statehood , Sustainable Development
Elisabeth WORLICZEK Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Change and Sustainability at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), AustriaAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , Wallis and Futuna , French Polynesia , Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Disaster , Interdisciplinarity , Migration , Mining and its Discontents , Natural Hazards , Social Change
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