Dr Vanessa Lamb is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. In research and teaching, she focuses on human-environment geographies and political ecology of Southeast Asia.
Dr. Lamb completed her dissertation, Ecologies of Rule and Resistance, focused on the politics of ecological knowledge and development of the Salween River at York University’s Department of Geography in 2014.
RESEARCH INTERESTS human-environment geography, political ecology, political geography, science studies, feminist political ecology, international water governance, rivers, climate and environmental change
Personal website: http://vanessalamb.org/
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FEATURED Journal article
Trading Sand, Undermining Lives: Omitted Livelihoods in the Global Trade in Sand
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ASEM 2013/003 Uptake of agricultural technologies and best practice amongst farmers in Bat..
Research Grant
Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River
Book
Salween Stories (Dynamic Storytelling Website with film)
Recorded or Rendered Work - Film, Video
Who knows the river? Gender, expertise, and the politics of local ecological knowledge pro..
Journal article
Gendered eviction, protest and recovery: a feminist political ecology engagement with land..
Journal article
"Where is the border?" Villagers, environmental consultants and the 'work' of the Thai-Bur..
Journal article
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Projects
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2014-17 CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Greater Mekong research-for-development grant, Project leader (PI) on “Matching policies, institutions and practices of water governance in the Salween River Basin: Towards inclusive, informed, and accountable water governance,” https://wlemekong.wikispaces.com/MK21
2014-17 CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Greater Mekong research-for-development grant, Collaborator on “Professional Development of Water Governance and Regional Development Practitioners in the Salween Basin,” https://wlemekong.wikispaces.com/MK31
2014-15 BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS) Small Grant for research on China’s hydropower investments in mainland Southeast Asia
Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)-Canada Junior Fellowship
Paul Simpson-Housley Award for outstanding dissertation
Adaptation H20 Award, Research Award for work on climate change and water,
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Senior Lecturer In Geography
Geography
A Nonprofit Scientific And Educational Society For The Advancement Of Geography
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Education
Education
Geography
York University
Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development
University of Wisconsin