Cultural and political ecology, with principal specialization on agrarian change in developing countries; comparative regional study of the dynamics of people-environment interaction in the Pacific and southeast Asia
Elected 2009
The entanglement of natural & social histories in Iceland & Greenland; the anthropological contribution to climate change research; the history of Artic anthropology; the foundations of anthropological knowledge
Anthropology of the environment, cultural cognition, ethnobiological knowledge systems; eastern Indonesia
The human dimensions of global environmental change with a focus on vulnerability and adaptation, governance, geography, and climate justice