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Simon Batterbury ( Personal
website – nothing to do with the University simonpjb "at"
unimelb.edu.au
Short cv .pdf Publications of all sorts Research
students past
and present. Potential PhD students look here Old Homepage, research themes, teaching, links etc. To-do list 2013 (eeks) ·
Thoughts on academic
radicalism and open access
publishing ·
Press
on Batterbury family garden, Bath, UK ·
Bike
Helmets – Australia and New Zealand doesn't need them to be
compulsory for adults. Helmets
data Favourite Quotes "It's no use trying to be clever--we are
all clever here; just try to be kind--a little kind". F.J. Foakes Jackson (a Cambridge academic, talking to a
new arrival at the University, early 1900s) "Generally it is our failures that civilise us.
Triumph confirms us in our habits". Clive James. 1980. Unreliable Memoirs. Picador. P65 Greetings! I work on the political ecology of natural resources,
and international development issues, as a university scholar and occasional
consultant and activist. I'm originally from the UK but have spent many years
in other places, notably Australia, the USA, West Africa and continental Europe.
This site is oriented towards research and teaching
interests, and also contains (under Publications) online versions
almost everything I have written since 1993. I’m Associate Professor in an interdisciplinary
university department, University of Melbourne, Australia and also from
2008-12 I directed the University’s Office for Environmental
Programs, which offers interdisciplinary taught post-graduate degrees in
the environmental field. It has its own blog site for events and
ruminations and has been widely recognized for its innovative teaching
model. Melbourne is a strong research and teaching university
dating back to the 1850s. Initially modelled on Despite environmental challenges, Melbourne is also
one of the world's 'most
liveable cities' according to assessments - better planned,
interesting/alternative, and with a better climate than most of its northern-hemisphere
equivalents.
Soon to approach 4m people, it has a
strong environmental movement, many NGOs, a tram network, a bayside coast, opulent Victorian architecture, a
multicultural community, large homegrown music
scene, and the best coffee in the country. The Department I
am in has changed its name due to some university restructuring. Since 2008, we have been the Department of Resource
Management and Geography, in the Melbourne School of Land
and Environment, which is gradually becoming an environmental hub at
Melbourne. Until 2006 we had the best name – SAGES - the Potential PhD students I have a group working on environment &
development, international development, political ecology topics and engaged
research. Masters students for taught programs should apply to the Masters of
Environment, OEP, where
'streams' can be chosen including 'development' and 'conservation'. I also
teach many Master of Development Studies students. I occasionally have honours
students in geography (Honours is an undergrad 4th year with a
15,000 wd thesis in Australia)
In 2007-8 I was a James Martin
Fellow at ECI, University of
Oxford, UK in a unit focussing on climate change policy. I used to teach at
the University of Arizona (USA), the London School of Economics ( Dr Simon Batterbury est
géographe et spécialiste de la gestion des ressources naturelles
et des politiques environnementales en Afrique (Burkina, Niger) et dans la
zone Asie-Pacifique ( Nouvelle-Calédonie,
Timor-Leste). Né en Angleterre, docteur de la Clark University
(Etats-Unis, 1997) sur le thème du développement rural au
Burkina Faso, il est aujourd’hui Associate Professor à
l’Université de Melbourne depuis 2004 (et a Université de
Oxford en 2007/8). Entre-temps, il a travaillé à
l’Université de Brunel à Londres, à la London School of Economics, et
à l’Université d’Arizona (Etats-Unis). Auteur
d’une soixantaine d’articles et de 6 «collections»,
il a reçu plusieurs « research grants ». |
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