Micah Fisher

@miadunphy Any options for virtually attending the people and environment session?

All the details for our 2024 Fall Colloquium Series are now available on our blog. Please share widely. buff.ly/4erz2uE

New freely available article out at @EWCResearch on smallholder expansion and privatization of communal forestlands in southeast #myanmar. Findings raise questions on revolution and future decentralized federalism eastwestcenter.org/publications/s…

This is one of those headlines that everyone is talking about but nobody knows how to talk about: Lack of young farmers jeopardizes food security, say experts thejakartapost.com/business/2023/…

Finally able to share this research, yay! authors.elsevier.com/a/1i7At2eyKFrZ…

Hey friends, my colleagues and I will be talking about BRI (aka Chinese investment) in SEAsia @uhcseas this Wednesday 15 Nov 12-1.30 pm HST. Hybrid, zoom registration below.

So apparently the fabulous Indonesian series #CigaretteGirl is racing up the Netflix charts in Latin America and Romania. Why? Hint: strong women, duplicitous men, passion denied, all wrapped up in elliptical storytelling. @NistorNis #GadisKretek

After moratoriums, institutions calling foul, public shame, & proof of wrongdoing, cameras look away and it takes a huge effort to collect the fines. Contrast: the ease of concessions, burning, violence, emissions, loss of forest meaning and use. news.mongabay.com/2023/11/burn-n…

Was amazing to be part of this hybrid discussion today. Thanks to the student panelists for highlighting the nuances of what makes field research such an important learning experience. Key for doing environmental ethics and collaborative research initiatives right.

Congrast @nurhadys and @forstsociety on leading this effort. I learned a ton through your engagement with the commons and commoning, and your empirical work, the depth of community engagements and relationships, truly makes this an exceptional piece of collaborative scholarship.

What does illegal mean when it is common practice? At the very least, it's allowed to be called illegal, which suggests there is recourse to accountability, and thus "legality"? news.mongabay.com/2023/10/report…

@gejlik Berarti mirip subak ya 😃

Dewan air bertanggung jawab mengatur sungai, kanal, antisipasi banjir, dan distribusi air. Sistem politik Belanda selama ratusan tahun sudah disesuaikan dengan kondisi socio-natural yang membentuk mereka sebagai bangsa.

Saat ini ada 21 dewan air di seluruh Belanda. Anggotanya dipilih lewat pemilu yang baru saja dilakukan Maret lalu. Dewan air otonom, independen dari administrasi pemerintahan provinsi, kabupaten/kota.

Mining is having a terrible environmental impact on freshwater bodies. We knew but now it is quantified and published. Will it help changes? phys.org/news/2023-08-2…

Expose @nytimes on nickel mining boom driven by global EV demand, linked to Chinese / US geopolitics, but also highlighting the extent of tradeoffs revolving around landscape and livelihood change taking place in Sulawesi. nytimes.com/2023/08/18/bus…

As Indonesia "becomes hub for electric vehicle production, it's getting caught in rivalry between US and China. At stake is control over nickel, critical component of EV batteries... but has a downside: pollution & social strife on the island of Sulawesi" nytimes.com/2023/08/20/bri…

@CivilBeat @madeleine_list 😢

As experts continue the painstaking work of identifying human remains from the fire that flattened much of #Lahaina more than a week ago, the Filipino community is bracing for the worst. @madeleine_list #HInews #MauiFires civilbeat.org/2023/08/many-o…