Michelle Ann Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 107927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Ann Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3375-8398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions
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…
Challenges in Forest Carbon Governance: Insights From Southeast Asia
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…
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface
Carbon governance retains a terra-centric focus on terrestrial forests. • Container logics have limited effectiveness in governing wetland sinks. • Land-water interfaces are concentrated sites of carbon inequality. • Sink-based conservation is compatible with peopled wetlands. Large volumes of organic carbon are stored in wetland ecosystems such as mangrove forests, peatlands, salt marshes and seagrass meadows. Efforts to mitigate anthropogenic c…
A transboundary agenda for nature-based solutions across sectors, scales and disciplines: Insights from carbon projects in Southeast Asia
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are integral to efforts to keep global warming below 2°C in accordance with the United Nations’ 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Yet the transboundary governance dimensions of NbS remain unclear and largely undocumented. In Southeast Asia, NbS have emphasised the conservation and/ or sustainable commodification of carbon sinks found in terrestrial and mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, peatlands and agricultur…
Leveraging plural valuations of mangroves for climate interventions in Indonesia
Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation
Rural adaptation encompasses place-based perceptions, behaviors, livelihoods, and traditional ways of life associated with local environments. These perceptions, norms, and practices are disturbed by coupled environment-development externalities. This study employs the Vietnamese Mekong floodplains as an exemplary case to illustrate how floods impact agrarian communities and how they have experienced flood alterations driven by hydropower develop…
Legitimizing land grabs in a digital age
In this commentary, I respond to Riding and Dahlman’s call to counter land grabs rooted in terra nullius claims. While this cyber-spatial montage provides a richly layered account of the representational dynamics and performative practices of a self-proclaimed country, I argue that the authors’ more-than-human theorization dilutes rather than sharpens their critical edge. Landscapes and natural resources have certain materialities that shape thei…
Making illegality visible: The governance dilemmas created by visualising illegal palm oil plantations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
This study focuses on how Indonesia’s One Map Policy renders illegal palm oil plantations in Indonesia visible and the governance dilemmas this creates. Using Central Kalimantan as a case study, we first draw on spatial data to visualise the extent of illegal palm oil plantations on forest land. The vast majority of illegal palm oil is large plantations, with illegal independent smallholdings constituting just 0.4%. We then draw on key stakeholde…
Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond Covid-19
COVID-19 has changed the permeability of borders in transboundary environmental governance regimes. While borders have always been selectively permeable, the pandemic has reconfigured the nature of cross-border flows of people, natural resources, finances and technologies. This has altered the availability of spaces for enacting sustainability initiatives within and between countries. In Southeast Asia, national governments and businesses seeking…
A Transboundary Political Ecology of Volcanic Sand Mining
Sand, the main ingredient of cement, glass, and asphalt, is being mined for urban development and global production at a pace that exceeds natural renewal. Yet research on the sustainability of sand mining has concentrated on extraction rates and socioecological impacts in rivers and coastlines. The potential of active volcanoes to generate a renewable supply of sand through cyclical or intermittent eruptions has been understudied, as have the as…
Sustainable development of carbon sinks? Lessons from three types of peatland partnerships in Indonesia
Peatland conversion for agriculture is the leading cause of Indonesia's terrestrial carbon emissions that contribute substantially to global warming. Indonesia's peatlands contain 55–57 billion tonnes of carbon, the equivalent of almost 2 years of global carbon emissions at existing rates. This paper examines initiatives to retain soil‐based carbon in Indonesia's province of Riau, where over half the surface area is composed of agriculturally pro…
Market‐based commons: Social agroforestry, fire mitigation strategies, and green supply chains in Indonesia’s peatlands
This paper develops the transboundary concept of market‐based commons to explore how partial and incomplete privatisation measures are contributing to the creation, operation, and maintenance of common property in agrarian societies embedded in global economies. Focusing on Indonesia’s Riau province, I show how transboundary publics and geographically dispersed users of peatland resources collectively engage in environmental stewardship around su…
Hydrosocial rupture: Causes and Consequences for Transboundary Governance
Miller, M. A., Alfajri, R. Astuti, C. Grundy-Warr, C. Middleton, Z. D. Tan, and D. M. Taylor. 2021. Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance. Ecology and Society 26(3):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12545-260321
On the Coattails of globalization: Migration, migrants and Covid-19 in Asia
Positioning migrants as quintessential globalisation subjects, this paper reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ambivalent positioning of migration as a pathway for human development. Drawing on interviews with international and domestic labour migrants from Bangladesh, India, Laos and Myanmar working in Laos, Myanmar, China, Singapore and Thailand, the paper explores the vulnerabilities, challenges and opportunities that have come wi…
Governing transboundary commons in Southeast Asia
The recent uptake of the concept of transboundary commons has directed attention towards the complexities of cross-border environmental governance. Transboundary commons are broadly defined as the spatial arrangements for governing shared resources and coordinating responses to environmental threats and crises that traverse jurisdictions and property boundaries within, as well as between, nation-states (Giordano, 2003; Hirsch, 2020; Miller, 2020)…
Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific
For the first time in 2019, the Asia-Pacific became a majority urban region. The unprecedented pace and magnitude of urbanisation across Asia and the Pacific has exposed tens of millions of urban residents to heightened risks and vulnerabilities associated with the expanding ecological footprint of urban energy, food and water demands and the increasingly severe effects of global climate change. This special issue directs attention toward the cha…
Hybrid Governance of Transboundary Commons: Insights from Southeast Asia
This article examines how hybrid environmental governance produces, maintains, and reconfigures common property across transboundary geographies of resource access, use, and ownership. Transboundary commons are a category of environmental goods that traverse jurisdictions and property regimes within as well as between nation-states. They are forged through collaborative partnerships between spatially dispersed state, private-sector, and societal …
B/ordering the environmental commons
Transboundary environmental commons are usually conceived in terms of the spatial arrangements that govern transboundary resources and coordinate responses to cross-border environmental threats and crises. Borders in this context tend to be viewed as relatively stable institutions in the administration of geographically dispersed resources with well-defined properties by a jurisdictionally divided collective of users. In practice, however, the tr…
Crossing Borders: Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia and the Pacific
Disaster justice in Asia’s urbanising Anthropocene
The essays in this themed collection critically engage with questions of environmental disaster justice from historical and contemporary perspectives. The contributions are geographically centred on urbanising societies in six countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia: India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. Among the first multidisciplinary efforts to develop the concept of disaster justice and to explore it through t…
Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia
Introduction: Decentralising disaster governance in urbanising Asia
Introduction: Governing Flooding in Asia's Urban Transition
The twenty-first century not only marks the advent of Asia’s first urban era in which more than half of its population lives in cities; it is also the emergence of an age of increasing frequency and intensity of environmental disasters. Urban flooding leads disaster trends and is directly impacting the lives and livelihoods of a growing share of Asia’s population. By 2010 more than 1.5 billion people were residing in urban areas in Asia, accounti…
Urban inter-referencing within and beyond a decentralized Indonesia
Decentralizing Indonesian City Spaces as New 'Centers
Since the introduction of regional autonomy legislation in 1999, Indonesia has embarked on the world's biggest experiment with democratic decentralization. The intertwined processes of democratization and decentralization have dismantled Indonesia's centralized authoritarian system and reordered its governmental structures. These conjoined processes have set in motion conditions for the transformation of a number of Indonesia's secondary cities i…
Urban development in a decentralized Indonesia: Two Success Stories
B/ordering the environmental commons
Transboundary environmental commons are usually conceived in terms of the spatial arrangements that govern transboundary resources and coordinate responses to cross-border environmental threats and crises. Borders in this context tend to be viewed as relatively stable institutions in the administration of geographically dispersed resources with well-defined properties by a jurisdictionally divided collective of users. In practice, however, the tr…
Jakarta in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Decentralisation, Neo-liberalism and Global City Aspiration
In this paper, an examination is made of Jakarta's changing political and economic position since the mid 1990s. This period of transformation is dealt with in four parts: the first relates to spatial and administrative changes to Jakarta and its wider urban region; the second considers the impact and implications of the 1997 Asian financial crisis (krismon) and ensuing political transformation which saw the resignation of President Suharto; the …
Post-disaster economic development in Aceh: Neoliberalization and other economic-geographical imaginaries
On the Coattails of globalization: Migration, migrants and Covid-19 in Asia
Positioning migrants as quintessential globalisation subjects, this paper reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ambivalent positioning of migration as a pathway for human development. Drawing on interviews with international and domestic labour migrants from Bangladesh, India, Laos and Myanmar working in Laos, Myanmar, China, Singapore and Thailand, the paper explores the vulnerabilities, challenges and opportunities that have come wi…
Urban inter-referencing within and beyond a decentralized Indonesia
A Transboundary Political Ecology of Volcanic Sand Mining
Sand, the main ingredient of cement, glass, and asphalt, is being mined for urban development and global production at a pace that exceeds natural renewal. Yet research on the sustainability of sand mining has concentrated on extraction rates and socioecological impacts in rivers and coastlines. The potential of active volcanoes to generate a renewable supply of sand through cyclical or intermittent eruptions has been understudied, as have the as…
Introduction: Problematizing the Interplay between decentralized Governance and the urban in Asia
Hybrid Governance of Transboundary Commons: Insights from Southeast Asia
This article examines how hybrid environmental governance produces, maintains, and reconfigures common property across transboundary geographies of resource access, use, and ownership. Transboundary commons are a category of environmental goods that traverse jurisdictions and property regimes within as well as between nation-states. They are forged through collaborative partnerships between spatially dispersed state, private-sector, and societal …
Decentralizing Indonesian City Spaces as New 'Centers
Since the introduction of regional autonomy legislation in 1999, Indonesia has embarked on the world's biggest experiment with democratic decentralization. The intertwined processes of democratization and decentralization have dismantled Indonesia's centralized authoritarian system and reordered its governmental structures. These conjoined processes have set in motion conditions for the transformation of a number of Indonesia's secondary cities i…
Market‐based commons: Social agroforestry, fire mitigation strategies, and green supply chains in Indonesia’s peatlands
This paper develops the transboundary concept of market‐based commons to explore how partial and incomplete privatisation measures are contributing to the creation, operation, and maintenance of common property in agrarian societies embedded in global economies. Focusing on Indonesia’s Riau province, I show how transboundary publics and geographically dispersed users of peatland resources collectively engage in environmental stewardship around su…
Disaster justice in Asia’s urbanising Anthropocene
The essays in this themed collection critically engage with questions of environmental disaster justice from historical and contemporary perspectives. The contributions are geographically centred on urbanising societies in six countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia: India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. Among the first multidisciplinary efforts to develop the concept of disaster justice and to explore it through t…
Introduction: Decentralising disaster governance in urbanising Asia
Why scholars of minority rights in Asia should recognize the limits of Western models
This article considers the relationship between ethnic and racial minority rights and citizenship in Asia. The most ethnically divided and populous region in the world, Asia is home to some of the most contrasting state responses to ethnic minority assertions of diversity and difference. Asia is also awash with wide-ranging claims by geographically-dispersed ethnic minorities to full and equal citizenship. In exploring the relationship between et…
Making illegality visible: The governance dilemmas created by visualising illegal palm oil plantations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
This study focuses on how Indonesia’s One Map Policy renders illegal palm oil plantations in Indonesia visible and the governance dilemmas this creates. Using Central Kalimantan as a case study, we first draw on spatial data to visualise the extent of illegal palm oil plantations on forest land. The vast majority of illegal palm oil is large plantations, with illegal independent smallholdings constituting just 0.4%. We then draw on key stakeholde…
Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific
For the first time in 2019, the Asia-Pacific became a majority urban region. The unprecedented pace and magnitude of urbanisation across Asia and the Pacific has exposed tens of millions of urban residents to heightened risks and vulnerabilities associated with the expanding ecological footprint of urban energy, food and water demands and the increasingly severe effects of global climate change. This special issue directs attention toward the cha…
Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond Covid-19
COVID-19 has changed the permeability of borders in transboundary environmental governance regimes. While borders have always been selectively permeable, the pandemic has reconfigured the nature of cross-border flows of people, natural resources, finances and technologies. This has altered the availability of spaces for enacting sustainability initiatives within and between countries. In Southeast Asia, national governments and businesses seeking…
Sustainable development of carbon sinks? Lessons from three types of peatland partnerships in Indonesia
Peatland conversion for agriculture is the leading cause of Indonesia's terrestrial carbon emissions that contribute substantially to global warming. Indonesia's peatlands contain 55–57 billion tonnes of carbon, the equivalent of almost 2 years of global carbon emissions at existing rates. This paper examines initiatives to retain soil‐based carbon in Indonesia's province of Riau, where over half the surface area is composed of agriculturally pro…
Introduction: Governing Flooding in Asia's Urban Transition
The twenty-first century not only marks the advent of Asia’s first urban era in which more than half of its population lives in cities; it is also the emergence of an age of increasing frequency and intensity of environmental disasters. Urban flooding leads disaster trends and is directly impacting the lives and livelihoods of a growing share of Asia’s population. By 2010 more than 1.5 billion people were residing in urban areas in Asia, accounti…
Introduction - Ethnic minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion
This special issue, devoted to ethnic minorities in Asia, originated with the International Symposium on Ethnic Minorities in Asia: Subjects or Citizens, held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. As one of the most ethnically-diverse regions in the world, Asia is the site of large indigenous minority populations as well as non-indigenous minorities through ever-growing legal and illegal migrant flows. This article map…
Leveraging plural valuations of mangroves for climate interventions in Indonesia
The Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam law: A serious response to Acehnese separatism
The passing of Law No. 18 of 2001 on ‘Special Autonomy for the Province of Aceh Special Region as the Province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam’ signified a major development in the Indonesian government's strategy to resolve Aceh's protracted conflict. Ratified by President Megawati Sukarnoputri on 9 August 2001, the ‘NAD law’ conferred unprecedented authority to Aceh over its internal affairs. This paper evaluates the challenges that have been invol…
Hydrosocial rupture: Causes and Consequences for Transboundary Governance
Miller, M. A., Alfajri, R. Astuti, C. Grundy-Warr, C. Middleton, Z. D. Tan, and D. M. Taylor. 2021. Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance. Ecology and Society 26(3):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12545-260321
Governing transboundary commons in Southeast Asia
The recent uptake of the concept of transboundary commons has directed attention towards the complexities of cross-border environmental governance. Transboundary commons are broadly defined as the spatial arrangements for governing shared resources and coordinating responses to environmental threats and crises that traverse jurisdictions and property boundaries within, as well as between, nation-states (Giordano, 2003; Hirsch, 2020; Miller, 2020)…
The Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam law: A serious response to Acehnese separatism
The passing of Law No. 18 of 2001 on ‘Special Autonomy for the Province of Aceh Special Region as the Province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam’ signified a major development in the Indonesian government's strategy to resolve Aceh's protracted conflict. Ratified by President Megawati Sukarnoputri on 9 August 2001, the ‘NAD law’ conferred unprecedented authority to Aceh over its internal affairs. This paper evaluates the challenges that have been invol…
Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia: Jakarta's security and autonomy polices in Aceh
n\t\t\t\t\tArmed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia's central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on Jakarta's response towards the armed separatist movement in Aceh. Unlike other studies of separatism in Indonesia, this book concentrates on the responses of the central government rather tha…
Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia: Jakarta's security and autonomy polices in Aceh
Armed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia's central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on Jakarta's response towards the armed separatist movement in Aceh. Unlike other studies of separatism in Indonesia, this book concentrates on the responses of the central government rather than looking o…
Jakarta in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Decentralisation, Neo-liberalism and Global City Aspiration
In this paper, an examination is made of Jakarta's changing political and economic position since the mid 1990s. This period of transformation is dealt with in four parts: the first relates to spatial and administrative changes to Jakarta and its wider urban region; the second considers the impact and implications of the 1997 Asian financial crisis (krismon) and ensuing political transformation which saw the resignation of President Suharto; the …
Post-disaster economic development in Aceh: Neoliberalization and other economic-geographical imaginaries
Introduction - Ethnic minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion
This special issue, devoted to ethnic minorities in Asia, originated with the International Symposium on Ethnic Minorities in Asia: Subjects or Citizens, held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. As one of the most ethnically-diverse regions in the world, Asia is the site of large indigenous minority populations as well as non-indigenous minorities through ever-growing legal and illegal migrant flows. This article map…
Why scholars of minority rights in Asia should recognize the limits of Western models
This article considers the relationship between ethnic and racial minority rights and citizenship in Asia. The most ethnically divided and populous region in the world, Asia is home to some of the most contrasting state responses to ethnic minority assertions of diversity and difference. Asia is also awash with wide-ranging claims by geographically-dispersed ethnic minorities to full and equal citizenship. In exploring the relationship between et…
Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia
Introduction: Asian Cities in an Era of Decentralisation
Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java
Decentralizing Indonesian City Spaces as New 'Centers
Since the introduction of regional autonomy legislation in 1999, Indonesia has embarked on the world's biggest experiment with democratic decentralization. The intertwined processes of democratization and decentralization have dismantled Indonesia's centralized authoritarian system and reordered its governmental structures. These conjoined processes have set in motion conditions for the transformation of a number of Indonesia's secondary cities i…
Urban development in a decentralized Indonesia: Two Success Stories
Introduction: Problematizing the Interplay between decentralized Governance and the urban in Asia
Urban inter-referencing within and beyond a decentralized Indonesia
Introduction: Governing Flooding in Asia's Urban Transition
The twenty-first century not only marks the advent of Asia’s first urban era in which more than half of its population lives in cities; it is also the emergence of an age of increasing frequency and intensity of environmental disasters. Urban flooding leads disaster trends and is directly impacting the lives and livelihoods of a growing share of Asia’s population. By 2010 more than 1.5 billion people were residing in urban areas in Asia, accounti…
Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia
Introduction: Decentralising disaster governance in urbanising Asia
Crossing Borders: Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia and the Pacific
Disaster justice in Asia’s urbanising Anthropocene
The essays in this themed collection critically engage with questions of environmental disaster justice from historical and contemporary perspectives. The contributions are geographically centred on urbanising societies in six countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia: India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. Among the first multidisciplinary efforts to develop the concept of disaster justice and to explore it through t…
B/ordering the environmental commons
Transboundary environmental commons are usually conceived in terms of the spatial arrangements that govern transboundary resources and coordinate responses to cross-border environmental threats and crises. Borders in this context tend to be viewed as relatively stable institutions in the administration of geographically dispersed resources with well-defined properties by a jurisdictionally divided collective of users. In practice, however, the tr…
Governing transboundary commons in Southeast Asia
The recent uptake of the concept of transboundary commons has directed attention towards the complexities of cross-border environmental governance. Transboundary commons are broadly defined as the spatial arrangements for governing shared resources and coordinating responses to environmental threats and crises that traverse jurisdictions and property boundaries within, as well as between, nation-states (Giordano, 2003; Hirsch, 2020; Miller, 2020)…
Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific
For the first time in 2019, the Asia-Pacific became a majority urban region. The unprecedented pace and magnitude of urbanisation across Asia and the Pacific has exposed tens of millions of urban residents to heightened risks and vulnerabilities associated with the expanding ecological footprint of urban energy, food and water demands and the increasingly severe effects of global climate change. This special issue directs attention toward the cha…
Hybrid Governance of Transboundary Commons: Insights from Southeast Asia
This article examines how hybrid environmental governance produces, maintains, and reconfigures common property across transboundary geographies of resource access, use, and ownership. Transboundary commons are a category of environmental goods that traverse jurisdictions and property regimes within as well as between nation-states. They are forged through collaborative partnerships between spatially dispersed state, private-sector, and societal …
Sustainable development of carbon sinks? Lessons from three types of peatland partnerships in Indonesia
Peatland conversion for agriculture is the leading cause of Indonesia's terrestrial carbon emissions that contribute substantially to global warming. Indonesia's peatlands contain 55–57 billion tonnes of carbon, the equivalent of almost 2 years of global carbon emissions at existing rates. This paper examines initiatives to retain soil‐based carbon in Indonesia's province of Riau, where over half the surface area is composed of agriculturally pro…
Market‐based commons: Social agroforestry, fire mitigation strategies, and green supply chains in Indonesia’s peatlands
This paper develops the transboundary concept of market‐based commons to explore how partial and incomplete privatisation measures are contributing to the creation, operation, and maintenance of common property in agrarian societies embedded in global economies. Focusing on Indonesia’s Riau province, I show how transboundary publics and geographically dispersed users of peatland resources collectively engage in environmental stewardship around su…
Political science (32 works) · Geography (26 works) · Economics (18 works) · Business (15 works) · Corporate governance (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Asian Studies and History (10 works)