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Email

vanessa.lamb@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Senior Fellow)
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Education
PhD
York University
Masters (Coursework & Research)
University of Wisconsin
ORCID

0000-0003-1717-6777

Dr Vanessa Lamb

Honorary (Senior Fellow)
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

51 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2019

    Journal article

    Trading Sand, Undermining Lives: Omitted Livelihoods in the Global Trade in Sand
    DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2018.1541401
  • 2019

    Book

    Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77440-4
  • 2019

    Recorded or Rendered Work

    Salween Stories (Dynamic Storytelling Website with film)
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Who knows the river? Gender, expertise, and the politics of local ecological knowledge production of the Salween River, Thai-Myanmar border
    DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1481018
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Gendered eviction, protest and recovery: a feminist political ecology engagement with land grabbing in rural Cambodia
    DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2017.1311868
  • 2017

    Research grants (other domestic)

    ASEM 2013/003 Uptake of Agricultural Technologies and Best Practice Amongst Farmers in Battambang and Pailin Provinces, Cambodia
  • 2014

    Journal article

    "Where is the border?" Villagers, environmental consultants and the 'work' of the Thai-Burma border
    DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.001
Vanessa Lamb

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2019
John McKenzie ECR Award
2014
Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)-Canada Junior Fellowship ASEAN-Canada Research Partnership/IDRC
2014
Paul Simpson-Housley Award for outstanding dissertation Department of Geography, York University
2012
Adaptation H20 Award, Research Award for work on climate change and water, International Development Research Council (IDRC)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Rivers as borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies
    DOI: 10.1111/area.70001
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Caring for the river-border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River-border
    DOI: 10.1111/area.12933
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Extraction
    DOI: 10.53288/0405.1.17
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Toward a sustainable future of sand
    DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101200
  • 2024

    Journal article

    The fence ‘didn’t work’: the mundane engagements and material practices of state-led development in China’s Danjiangkou Reservoir
    DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2022.2041475
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin
    DOI: 10.1111/anti.12939
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Constructing the global sand crisis: Four reasons to interrogate crisis and scarcity in narrating extraction
    DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2023.101282
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush
    DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2023.2211585

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