Environmental governance: relations between land use planning, environment & sustainability; policy processes in modern democracies, especially the role of knowledge, ideas & advice in policy formation & change.
Elected 2011
Agrarian transitions in Asia with a focus on livelihoods and living; migration, mobility and rural-urban relations; resilience and adaptation to natural hazards and environmental change; Southeast Asia area studies
Political geography: geopolitics of technology, politics of algorithms; biometrics and data borders, the politics and ethics of machine learning and AI
Historical Geography and Map History