M A Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 12555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9376-922X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Harnessing the Great Acceleration
Owing largely to its location at the base of the Malay Peninsula, on a key shipping route linking the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds, Singapore has been a commercial center since antiquity. But coastal contours did not foreordain Singapore’s ascendance. Its success as a global entrepôt (and arguably as an independent nation) owed to the ability of decision makers there to exploit the island’s geographic advantages to become central participants …
Carolyn Merchant, The Anthropocene and the Humanities
Singapore's Lost Coast
Beginning during the colonial period, and greatly accelerating following independence in 1965, Singapore has used land reclamation to increase its national domain by nearly 25 per cent. The construction of new land was a key component of the nation's celebrated rise from 'third world' to 'first world' in the postcolonial period. But the economic benefits of remaking Singapore's coastline came at significant ecological and social costs. Nearly all…
Daegan Miller, This Radical Land
Research Productivity and International Collaboration
Ecuador’s research output relative to other Latin American countries has been low historically; however, over the last 10 years, the government has put various policies in place to help remedy this situation. This is an analysis of Ecuadorian research productivity from 2006 to 2015. The scientific productivity of Ecuador has increased 5.16 times over the past years, exceeding Latin American growth. Over 80% of Ecuadorian publications include inte…
Research Impact and International Collaboration
Scientific performance in Ecuador has been traditionally low; however, in recent years, government has put various policies in place aimed at improving outcomes. This is an analysis of scientific impact of Ecuadorian publications using bibliometric tools for the 2006-2015 period. Impact of publications produced by Ecuadorian researchers is low; however, it highly increased with international collaboration mostly from North America and Europe, wha…
A world of fins and fences
This paper examines the world's two oldest and largest national shark control programs, those of South Africa and Australia. Officials from these two countries have spent more than a century trying to dictate the movement and behaviour of sharks to improve bather safety. To this end, people have deployed technologies ranging from barriers, to nets, to drum lines and even to electrical fields and depth charges. This essay treats these programs as …
People in Peril, Environments at Risk
In recent years, scholars have demonstrated that affluent societies have a disproportionate environmental impact. A focus on wealth, however, can obscure how poverty also propels ecosystem destruction, particularly when combined - as in colonial Singapore - with uncaring administrators and the ruthless logic of imperialism. In this colony, poor Chinese, Malays, archipelagic South-east Asians and Indians struggled to eke out a living by razing rai…
Kurkpatrick Dorsey, Whales and Nations
Trout Culture
In Trout Culture , Jen Corinne Brown deploys cultural, social, and environmental analysis to explore the historical origins of the Rocky Mountain West’s infatuation with fly-fishing for trout. Noting that this activity essentially amounts to glorified “bug puppetry,” and that it has a centuries-old global history, Brown seeks to understand how and why its western enthusiasts have come to perceive fly-fishing as a nearly religious, transformative …
Pestered with Inhabitants
This paper contends that Aldo Leopold's pursuit of unpeopled wilderness had a disturbing corollary-a disdain for human population growth that culminated in a critique of providing food and medical aid to developing nations. Although Leopold never fully shared these ideas with the public, he explored them in multiple unpublished manuscripts, and he submitted a first draft of one of these essays to a press. Leopold also exchanged these views with t…
People in Peril, Environments at Risk
In recent years, scholars have demonstrated that affluent societies have a disproportionate environmental impact. A focus on wealth, however, can obscure how poverty also propels ecosystem destruction, particularly when combined - as in colonial Singapore - with uncaring administrators and the ruthless logic of imperialism. In this colony, poor Chinese, Malays, archipelagic South-east Asians and Indians struggled to eke out a living by razing rai…
Harnessing the Great Acceleration
Owing largely to its location at the base of the Malay Peninsula, on a key shipping route linking the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds, Singapore has been a commercial center since antiquity. But coastal contours did not foreordain Singapore’s ascendance. Its success as a global entrepôt (and arguably as an independent nation) owed to the ability of decision makers there to exploit the island’s geographic advantages to become central participants …
Singapore's Lost Coast
Beginning during the colonial period, and greatly accelerating following independence in 1965, Singapore has used land reclamation to increase its national domain by nearly 25 per cent. The construction of new land was a key component of the nation's celebrated rise from 'third world' to 'first world' in the postcolonial period. But the economic benefits of remaking Singapore's coastline came at significant ecological and social costs. Nearly all…
Research Productivity and International Collaboration
Ecuador’s research output relative to other Latin American countries has been low historically; however, over the last 10 years, the government has put various policies in place to help remedy this situation. This is an analysis of Ecuadorian research productivity from 2006 to 2015. The scientific productivity of Ecuador has increased 5.16 times over the past years, exceeding Latin American growth. Over 80% of Ecuadorian publications include inte…
Research Impact and International Collaboration
Scientific performance in Ecuador has been traditionally low; however, in recent years, government has put various policies in place aimed at improving outcomes. This is an analysis of scientific impact of Ecuadorian publications using bibliometric tools for the 2006-2015 period. Impact of publications produced by Ecuadorian researchers is low; however, it highly increased with international collaboration mostly from North America and Europe, wha…
Pestered with Inhabitants
This paper contends that Aldo Leopold's pursuit of unpeopled wilderness had a disturbing corollary-a disdain for human population growth that culminated in a critique of providing food and medical aid to developing nations. Although Leopold never fully shared these ideas with the public, he explored them in multiple unpublished manuscripts, and he submitted a first draft of one of these essays to a press. Leopold also exchanged these views with t…
Pestered with Inhabitants
This paper contends that Aldo Leopold's pursuit of unpeopled wilderness had a disturbing corollary-a disdain for human population growth that culminated in a critique of providing food and medical aid to developing nations. Although Leopold never fully shared these ideas with the public, he explored them in multiple unpublished manuscripts, and he submitted a first draft of one of these essays to a press. Leopold also exchanged these views with t…
People in Peril, Environments at Risk
In recent years, scholars have demonstrated that affluent societies have a disproportionate environmental impact. A focus on wealth, however, can obscure how poverty also propels ecosystem destruction, particularly when combined - as in colonial Singapore - with uncaring administrators and the ruthless logic of imperialism. In this colony, poor Chinese, Malays, archipelagic South-east Asians and Indians struggled to eke out a living by razing rai…
Kurkpatrick Dorsey, Whales and Nations
Trout Culture
In Trout Culture , Jen Corinne Brown deploys cultural, social, and environmental analysis to explore the historical origins of the Rocky Mountain West’s infatuation with fly-fishing for trout. Noting that this activity essentially amounts to glorified “bug puppetry,” and that it has a centuries-old global history, Brown seeks to understand how and why its western enthusiasts have come to perceive fly-fishing as a nearly religious, transformative …
A world of fins and fences
This paper examines the world's two oldest and largest national shark control programs, those of South Africa and Australia. Officials from these two countries have spent more than a century trying to dictate the movement and behaviour of sharks to improve bather safety. To this end, people have deployed technologies ranging from barriers, to nets, to drum lines and even to electrical fields and depth charges. This essay treats these programs as …
Research Productivity and International Collaboration
Ecuador’s research output relative to other Latin American countries has been low historically; however, over the last 10 years, the government has put various policies in place to help remedy this situation. This is an analysis of Ecuadorian research productivity from 2006 to 2015. The scientific productivity of Ecuador has increased 5.16 times over the past years, exceeding Latin American growth. Over 80% of Ecuadorian publications include inte…
Research Impact and International Collaboration
Scientific performance in Ecuador has been traditionally low; however, in recent years, government has put various policies in place aimed at improving outcomes. This is an analysis of scientific impact of Ecuadorian publications using bibliometric tools for the 2006-2015 period. Impact of publications produced by Ecuadorian researchers is low; however, it highly increased with international collaboration mostly from North America and Europe, wha…
Singapore's Lost Coast
Beginning during the colonial period, and greatly accelerating following independence in 1965, Singapore has used land reclamation to increase its national domain by nearly 25 per cent. The construction of new land was a key component of the nation's celebrated rise from 'third world' to 'first world' in the postcolonial period. But the economic benefits of remaking Singapore's coastline came at significant ecological and social costs. Nearly all…
Daegan Miller, This Radical Land
Carolyn Merchant, The Anthropocene and the Humanities
Harnessing the Great Acceleration
Owing largely to its location at the base of the Malay Peninsula, on a key shipping route linking the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds, Singapore has been a commercial center since antiquity. But coastal contours did not foreordain Singapore’s ascendance. Its success as a global entrepôt (and arguably as an independent nation) owed to the ability of decision makers there to exploit the island’s geographic advantages to become central participants …
Geography (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Fishery (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Economics (3 works)