Dan Marks
Biographic Data
| ID | 106764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Marks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Marks |
| SIGNATURE | MARKS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0833-880X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Adaptation isn’t for farmers
Agriculture is widely recognised as one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. Despite this vulnerability, adaptation efforts have progressed slowly over the past several decades. Ireland is no exception, with higher temperatures and more variable rainfall impacting farmers and making adaptation necessary. However, despite commitments since 2018, agriculture has made only moderate or limited adaptation progress to date. Through narrati…
The urban political ecology of worsening flooding in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
This paper investigates worsening flooding damage recently experienced in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Contrary to Cambodia government leadership assertions that these floods have been caused by climate change, the study adopts an urban political ecology framework to uncover their actual underlying causes, which are rooted in political decisions, economic interests, and prevailing power dynamics. We argue that three processes have significantly contribu…
‘People say, “It's just allergies”, so no one can be blamed
Background Thailand’s air pollution crisis, specifically pollution due to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 μm, PM2.5, is exacerbated by structural inequities and an information ecosystem dominated by vested interests within agribusinesses and the government. This paper explores drivers of and solutions to the PM2.5 crisis, drawing upon often neglected civil society perspectives.Methods The study team condu…
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems
Coastal vegetated ecosystems such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshes provide a wide array of ecosystem services. They also play a vital role in climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. However, they are among the most threatened ecosystems globally. This study addresses a key knowledge gap by conducting a systematic review of academic literature on sectoral perceptions of these ecosystems. Through content anal…
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation
This article adopts an intersectional lens as an analytical framework to examine how overlapping demographic dimensions, such as age, ability, ethnicity, geography, gender, and home ownership status, shape the diverse experiences of energy poverty among low-income households in Ireland. Despite extensive research on the vertical impacts of carbon taxes across income groups, scholarship examining horizontal impacts on non-income groups remains lim…
Challenges in Forest Carbon Governance
Meeting global climate change mitigation targets will require enhanced nature‐based carbon sequestration, in which forest carbon schemes play a major role. This is despite criticisms of forest carbon schemes' efficacy, social impacts, and downgrading of other forest functions and services. Against this backdrop, we reviewed existing social science research on the governance of terrestrial forest carbon schemes in Southeast Asia, a forest‐rich reg…
Unequal and unjust
The intensity of Bangkok’s urban heat island during the dry season can be as high as 6–7° and in the densest areas the urban heat island’s intensity is approximately 4°C. The urban heat island thus is causing a city already oppressively hot to become even hotter. The urban heat island also contributes to health problems, such as heat stroke and fatigue, particularly to those with lower incomes. We historically examine the numerous causes of Bangk…
Their lives don't matter to politicians
Thailand is consistently ranked as having the worst road safety record in Asia, and one of the worst globally. Most deaths are of the rural poor, a function of necropolitical ecology. A primary factor is the materiality and design of the road system, built to increase mobility rather than improve safety, and lacking a hierarchical structure. Highways are poorly integrated into both rural areas and Thai cities, and ignore the needs of motorcycle d…
Increasing livelihood vulnerabilities to coastal erosion and wastewater intrusion
Most livelihood research focuses on micro-level decisions affecting occupations but fails to examine wider scale processes that shape markets, institutions, and thus livelihood choices. A political ecology framework can help address this gap by providing ways to analyse how multi-scalar and extra-local practices, policies, and discourses affect local-level socio-environmental outcomes. In the qualitative research reported here, that framework is …
Disentangling the concepts of global climate change, adaptation, and human mobility
The complex relationship between human mobility and global climate change remains contested. In this viewpoint, the themes of human mobility, adaptation and climate change are explored from a political ecology perspective. A framework of political ecology of human mobility in relation to climate change is applied to the context of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (MKD). The Vietnamese government, popular media and academic studies often present the MKD in …
Assessing the Potentials of Digitalization as a Tool for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development in Urban Centres
Splintering disaster
In the wake of the costly 2011 floods, the city of Bangkok struggled to respond to the water inundating Thailand’s major hub. In response, Thai leaders primarily blamed the external forces of nature and climate change. Depoliticising disasters and absolving national leaders of responsibility, these discourses about nature and climate change as the main cause of flooding led policymakers to primarily build infrastructure to block and drain water. …
The geopolitical economy of Thailand's marine plastic pollution crisis
Currently approximately 9 million tons of plastic enter the world's oceans annually. This is a major transboundary problem on a global scale that threatens marine wildlife, coastal ecologies, human health and livelihoods. Our concern in this paper is with the environmental governance of marine plastic pollution that emanates from Thailand, the sixth biggest contributor globally. By zooming in on land‐based polluters in Thailand, we highlight both…
An urban political ecology of Bangkok's awful traffic congestion
Urban political ecology (UPE) can contribute important insights to examine traffic congestion, a significant social and environmental problem underexplored in UPE. Specifically, by attending to power relations, the production of urban space, and cultural practices, UPE can help explain why traffic congestions arises and persists but also creates inequalities in terms of environmental impacts and mobility. Based on qualitative research conducted i…
Contested notions of disaster justice during the 2011 Bangkok floods
The 2011 Bangkok floods, a slow onset event, flooded significant parts of the city. The state's response to flooding followed a traditional cultural and hierarchical approach to justice within Thailand, stemming from Buddhist values, an informal caste system and monarchical order. This resulted in a spatially uneven outcome, with the ‘preservation’ of the central city and two‐month‐long floods in outer suburbs, exacerbated by inadequate managemen…
Circuits of power
In what ways are lifestyles in urbanising Thailand, increasingly oriented towards shopping malls related to the threat to the wildlife and struggles for subsistence in distant Lao hinterlands? Our article answers this question by looking at the workings of electricity as the key infrastructure that connects these seemingly unrelated events and practices. We argue that the circulation of electricity flows along uneven channels, shifting injury and…
Assembling the 2011 Thailand floods
Disaster governance and the scalar politics of incomplete decentralization
The Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Floods in Bangkok
Climate Change and Thailand
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
China's Climate Change Policy Process
China has recently become the world's largest emitter of carbon and is already facing many harmful effects domestically from climate change. Chinese leaders have therefore made a high-level commitment to curb emissions, as evident in the 2007 National Climate Change Program. However, the government has missed many of its targets, in particular its goal of reducing energy intensity. This essay argues that China is missing its targets because of a …
Ethnography and Ethnographic Film
The Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Floods in Bangkok
Assembling the 2011 Thailand floods
Disaster governance and the scalar politics of incomplete decentralization
Circuits of power
In what ways are lifestyles in urbanising Thailand, increasingly oriented towards shopping malls related to the threat to the wildlife and struggles for subsistence in distant Lao hinterlands? Our article answers this question by looking at the workings of electricity as the key infrastructure that connects these seemingly unrelated events and practices. We argue that the circulation of electricity flows along uneven channels, shifting injury and…
China's Climate Change Policy Process
China has recently become the world's largest emitter of carbon and is already facing many harmful effects domestically from climate change. Chinese leaders have therefore made a high-level commitment to curb emissions, as evident in the 2007 National Climate Change Program. However, the government has missed many of its targets, in particular its goal of reducing energy intensity. This essay argues that China is missing its targets because of a …
Ethnography and Ethnographic Film
Climate Change and Thailand
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
The geopolitical economy of Thailand's marine plastic pollution crisis
Currently approximately 9 million tons of plastic enter the world's oceans annually. This is a major transboundary problem on a global scale that threatens marine wildlife, coastal ecologies, human health and livelihoods. Our concern in this paper is with the environmental governance of marine plastic pollution that emanates from Thailand, the sixth biggest contributor globally. By zooming in on land‐based polluters in Thailand, we highlight both…
Splintering disaster
In the wake of the costly 2011 floods, the city of Bangkok struggled to respond to the water inundating Thailand’s major hub. In response, Thai leaders primarily blamed the external forces of nature and climate change. Depoliticising disasters and absolving national leaders of responsibility, these discourses about nature and climate change as the main cause of flooding led policymakers to primarily build infrastructure to block and drain water. …
Contested notions of disaster justice during the 2011 Bangkok floods
The 2011 Bangkok floods, a slow onset event, flooded significant parts of the city. The state's response to flooding followed a traditional cultural and hierarchical approach to justice within Thailand, stemming from Buddhist values, an informal caste system and monarchical order. This resulted in a spatially uneven outcome, with the ‘preservation’ of the central city and two‐month‐long floods in outer suburbs, exacerbated by inadequate managemen…
Unequal and unjust
The intensity of Bangkok’s urban heat island during the dry season can be as high as 6–7° and in the densest areas the urban heat island’s intensity is approximately 4°C. The urban heat island thus is causing a city already oppressively hot to become even hotter. The urban heat island also contributes to health problems, such as heat stroke and fatigue, particularly to those with lower incomes. We historically examine the numerous causes of Bangk…
Increasing livelihood vulnerabilities to coastal erosion and wastewater intrusion
Most livelihood research focuses on micro-level decisions affecting occupations but fails to examine wider scale processes that shape markets, institutions, and thus livelihood choices. A political ecology framework can help address this gap by providing ways to analyse how multi-scalar and extra-local practices, policies, and discourses affect local-level socio-environmental outcomes. In the qualitative research reported here, that framework is …
An urban political ecology of Bangkok's awful traffic congestion
Urban political ecology (UPE) can contribute important insights to examine traffic congestion, a significant social and environmental problem underexplored in UPE. Specifically, by attending to power relations, the production of urban space, and cultural practices, UPE can help explain why traffic congestions arises and persists but also creates inequalities in terms of environmental impacts and mobility. Based on qualitative research conducted i…
Ethnography and Ethnographic Film
China's Climate Change Policy Process
China has recently become the world's largest emitter of carbon and is already facing many harmful effects domestically from climate change. Chinese leaders have therefore made a high-level commitment to curb emissions, as evident in the 2007 National Climate Change Program. However, the government has missed many of its targets, in particular its goal of reducing energy intensity. This essay argues that China is missing its targets because of a …
Climate Change and Thailand
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
The Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Floods in Bangkok
Disaster governance and the scalar politics of incomplete decentralization
Contested notions of disaster justice during the 2011 Bangkok floods
The 2011 Bangkok floods, a slow onset event, flooded significant parts of the city. The state's response to flooding followed a traditional cultural and hierarchical approach to justice within Thailand, stemming from Buddhist values, an informal caste system and monarchical order. This resulted in a spatially uneven outcome, with the ‘preservation’ of the central city and two‐month‐long floods in outer suburbs, exacerbated by inadequate managemen…
Circuits of power
In what ways are lifestyles in urbanising Thailand, increasingly oriented towards shopping malls related to the threat to the wildlife and struggles for subsistence in distant Lao hinterlands? Our article answers this question by looking at the workings of electricity as the key infrastructure that connects these seemingly unrelated events and practices. We argue that the circulation of electricity flows along uneven channels, shifting injury and…
Assembling the 2011 Thailand floods
Assessing the Potentials of Digitalization as a Tool for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development in Urban Centres
Splintering disaster
In the wake of the costly 2011 floods, the city of Bangkok struggled to respond to the water inundating Thailand’s major hub. In response, Thai leaders primarily blamed the external forces of nature and climate change. Depoliticising disasters and absolving national leaders of responsibility, these discourses about nature and climate change as the main cause of flooding led policymakers to primarily build infrastructure to block and drain water. …
The geopolitical economy of Thailand's marine plastic pollution crisis
Currently approximately 9 million tons of plastic enter the world's oceans annually. This is a major transboundary problem on a global scale that threatens marine wildlife, coastal ecologies, human health and livelihoods. Our concern in this paper is with the environmental governance of marine plastic pollution that emanates from Thailand, the sixth biggest contributor globally. By zooming in on land‐based polluters in Thailand, we highlight both…
An urban political ecology of Bangkok's awful traffic congestion
Urban political ecology (UPE) can contribute important insights to examine traffic congestion, a significant social and environmental problem underexplored in UPE. Specifically, by attending to power relations, the production of urban space, and cultural practices, UPE can help explain why traffic congestions arises and persists but also creates inequalities in terms of environmental impacts and mobility. Based on qualitative research conducted i…
Disentangling the concepts of global climate change, adaptation, and human mobility
The complex relationship between human mobility and global climate change remains contested. In this viewpoint, the themes of human mobility, adaptation and climate change are explored from a political ecology perspective. A framework of political ecology of human mobility in relation to climate change is applied to the context of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (MKD). The Vietnamese government, popular media and academic studies often present the MKD in …
Increasing livelihood vulnerabilities to coastal erosion and wastewater intrusion
Most livelihood research focuses on micro-level decisions affecting occupations but fails to examine wider scale processes that shape markets, institutions, and thus livelihood choices. A political ecology framework can help address this gap by providing ways to analyse how multi-scalar and extra-local practices, policies, and discourses affect local-level socio-environmental outcomes. In the qualitative research reported here, that framework is …
Unequal and unjust
The intensity of Bangkok’s urban heat island during the dry season can be as high as 6–7° and in the densest areas the urban heat island’s intensity is approximately 4°C. The urban heat island thus is causing a city already oppressively hot to become even hotter. The urban heat island also contributes to health problems, such as heat stroke and fatigue, particularly to those with lower incomes. We historically examine the numerous causes of Bangk…
Their lives don't matter to politicians
Thailand is consistently ranked as having the worst road safety record in Asia, and one of the worst globally. Most deaths are of the rural poor, a function of necropolitical ecology. A primary factor is the materiality and design of the road system, built to increase mobility rather than improve safety, and lacking a hierarchical structure. Highways are poorly integrated into both rural areas and Thai cities, and ignore the needs of motorcycle d…
The urban political ecology of worsening flooding in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
This paper investigates worsening flooding damage recently experienced in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Contrary to Cambodia government leadership assertions that these floods have been caused by climate change, the study adopts an urban political ecology framework to uncover their actual underlying causes, which are rooted in political decisions, economic interests, and prevailing power dynamics. We argue that three processes have significantly contribu…
‘People say, “It's just allergies”, so no one can be blamed
Background Thailand’s air pollution crisis, specifically pollution due to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 μm, PM2.5, is exacerbated by structural inequities and an information ecosystem dominated by vested interests within agribusinesses and the government. This paper explores drivers of and solutions to the PM2.5 crisis, drawing upon often neglected civil society perspectives.Methods The study team condu…
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems
Coastal vegetated ecosystems such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshes provide a wide array of ecosystem services. They also play a vital role in climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. However, they are among the most threatened ecosystems globally. This study addresses a key knowledge gap by conducting a systematic review of academic literature on sectoral perceptions of these ecosystems. Through content anal…
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation
This article adopts an intersectional lens as an analytical framework to examine how overlapping demographic dimensions, such as age, ability, ethnicity, geography, gender, and home ownership status, shape the diverse experiences of energy poverty among low-income households in Ireland. Despite extensive research on the vertical impacts of carbon taxes across income groups, scholarship examining horizontal impacts on non-income groups remains lim…
Challenges in Forest Carbon Governance
Meeting global climate change mitigation targets will require enhanced nature‐based carbon sequestration, in which forest carbon schemes play a major role. This is despite criticisms of forest carbon schemes' efficacy, social impacts, and downgrading of other forest functions and services. Against this backdrop, we reviewed existing social science research on the governance of terrestrial forest carbon schemes in Southeast Asia, a forest‐rich reg…
Adaptation isn’t for farmers
Agriculture is widely recognised as one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. Despite this vulnerability, adaptation efforts have progressed slowly over the past several decades. Ireland is no exception, with higher temperatures and more variable rainfall impacting farmers and making adaptation necessary. However, despite commitments since 2018, agriculture has made only moderate or limited adaptation progress to date. Through narrati…
Political science (17 works) · Geography (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (9 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)