A Neef
Biographic Data
| ID | 26497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Neef |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Neef |
| SIGNATURE | NEEF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5079-3323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Holistic Approach to Early Warning Systems Using an Agent-Based Model
Developing an early warning system requires four key components: risk knowledge, hazard detection (including monitoring and forecasting), dissemination (involving decision making and warning issuance), and response (including action implementation). Early warning system (EWS) provides an integrated system to facilitate timely responses to hazards. To assess the effectiveness of an EWS, a systems-based approach that holistically captures its criti…
Health dimensions
This article outlines an interdisciplinary research agenda in the nexus of climate change, extreme weather, human im/mobility and public health. We identify four research themes. First, climate im/mobility and health narratives, where research is needed on how competing narratives are adopted by citizens and how these influence their attitudes towards climate im/mobile groups, while also giving a stronger voice for these groups to tell their own …
Looking inward: Domestic tourism in Southeast Asia during the Covid-19 pandemic
Southeast Asian governments were forced to reposition their tourism markets as a result of border lockdowns brought on by the COVID-19 virus. We examine the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries’ marketing strategies intended to bolster their respective domestic tourism industries during the pandemic years of 2020–2022. This paper sketches three approaches that dominated the region at the time: building national communit…
There's so much more to that sinking island!”—Restorying migration from Kiribati and Tuvalu to Aotearoa New Zealand
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Many Pacific people are considering cross-border mobility in response to the climate crisis, despite exclusion from international protection frameworks. The 'Migration with dignity' concept facilitates immigration within existing laws but without host government support. Through the metaphor of Pacific navigation, we explore the role of dignity in the lives of I-Kiribati and Tuvaluans in Aotearoa New Zealand. METHODS: Combini…
Vulnerabilities shape risk perception and influence adaptive strategies to hydro-meteorological hazards: A case study of Indo-Fijian farming communities
Legal and social protection for migrant farm workers: Lessons from Covid-19
Disaster Preparedness and the Abeyance of Agency: Christian Responses to Tropical Cyclone Winston in Fiji
International practices of disaster preparedness presume human agency, particularly at the household level, as an important pre-emptive response to anticipated natural hazards. Our analysis of Fijian responses to Tropical Cyclone Winston indicates that preparedness is also regarded as important by cyclone survivors but has a moral dimension that can be used to assign blame to underprepared members of the community. However, Fijian villagers’ expe…
South African community in Auckland: Natural hazards and the resilience to a potential disaster event
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the resilience of the South African community in Auckland to a potential hazard event. Design/methodology/approach The research collected data from both primary and secondary sources. The research used parametric and non-parametric analytical procedures for quantitative data and a general inductive approach to qualitative data analysis and a three-step coding cycle for interviews. A content anal…
Patrons of disaster: The role of political patronage in flood response in the Solomon Islands
Urbanisation and disaster risk: The resilience of the Nigerian community in Auckland to natural hazards
Community resources and the ability to organise them in times of challenges are essential in resilience. This study investigated the resilience of the Nigerian community in Auckland to the risk of natural hazards. Auckland has a multi-hazard landscape and an increasing rate of urbanisation which encompasses diverse communities and nationalities. The study examined five resources, the social, economic, communication, disaster competency and physic…
Climate adaptation strategies in Fiji: The role of social norms and cultural values
Eliciting citizen preferences for multifunctional agriculture in the watershed areas of northern Thailand through choice experiment and latent class models
Ethiopia's Challenge to Egyptian Hegemony in the Nile River Basin: The Case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Home to more than 160 million people, the Nile River Basin has become one of the hotspots of the global quest for food, water and energy security. Moving closer to its completion, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) highlights the interplay between the food, water, and energy sectors and their implications on geopolitical power relations in the region. Despite Ethiopia having the highest volumetric contribution to the Nile river flow, Egyp…
Sustainable development and the water–energy–food nexus: A perspective on livelihoods
The water–energy–food nexus is being promoted as a conceptual tool for achieving sustainable development. Frameworks for implementing nexus thinking, however, have failed to explicitly or adequately incorporate sustainable livelihoods perspectives. This is counterintuitive given that livelihoods are key to achieving sustainable development. In this paper we present a critical review of nexus approaches and identify potential linkages with sustain…
Development-induced displacement in Asia: Conflicts, Risks, and Resilience
This introduction to the themed special feature on development-induced displacement in Asia discusses the scope and major drivers of development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) in Asia, and recent policy developments at the national and international level. It describes some of the existing conceptual frameworks in the field of DIDR and presents a new set of questions and concerns that are addressed by the five articles that make up …
Niche action and system harmonization for institutional change: Prospects for demand-driven agricultural extension in Vietnam
The Politics and Ethics of Land Concessions in Rural Cambodia
In rural Cambodia the rampant allocation of state land to political elites and foreign investors in the form of “Economic Land Concessions (ELCs)”—estimated to cover an area equivalent to more than 50 % of the country’s arable land—has been associated with encroachment on farmland, community forests and indigenous territories and has contributed to a rapid increase of rural landlessness. By contrast, less than 7,000 ha of land have been allotted …
Adapting the innovation systems approach to agricultural development in Vietnam: Challenges to the public extension service
Fostering Incentive-Based Policies and Partnerships for Integrated Watershed Management in the Southeast Asian Uplands
This paper attempts to identify the major factors associated with some of the failures and successes of integrated watershed management policies and projects with a particular emphasis on the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia. It argues that many policy measures have been misguided by failing to acknowledge the multidimensional facets of sustainable watershed management and putting too much emphasis on command-and-control approaches to resource …
Can public GAP standards reduce agricultural pesticide use? The case of fruit and vegetable farming in northern Thailand
In response to the chronic overuse and misuse of pesticides in agriculture, governments in Southeast Asia have sought to improve food safety by introducing public standards of good agricultural practices (GAP). Using quantitative farm-level data from an intensive horticultural production system in northern Thailand, we test if fruit and vegetable producers who follow the public GAP standard use fewer and less hazardous pesticides than producers w…
Agricultural Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Processes in Vietnam's Northwestern Uplands: State-governed or Demand-driven
Variations of Late Socialist Development: Integration and Marginalization in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam and Laos
Stakeholder participation in agricultural research projects: A conceptual framework for reflection and decision-making
Recent discourse in the field of participatory agricultural research has focused on how to blend various forms and intensities of stakeholder participation with quality agricultural science, moving beyond the simple “farmer-first” ideology of the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet, most existing frameworks of participation in agricultural research still adhere to a linear typology of participatory research with an inherent claim of “the more participatio…
Can Paper Mulberry Contribute to Building Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Northern Laos
Most ethnic minority villages in northern Lao PDR continue to rely on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for much of their subsistence and cash economy.Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) is an important NTFP in many parts of northern Laos, providing opportunities for earning cash income, particularly for women.Since the plant has been successfully domesticated by local people, it has also been widely proposed as the basis for a sustainable …
Rewarding the upland poor for saving the commons? Evidence from Southeast Asia
The Southeast Asian uplands provide livelihood opportunities for more than 100 million people. Many of these are poor smallholder farmers who are economically, socially and politically marginalized, suffer from tenure insecurity and have few options other than drawing on the uplands' natural resources to sustain their living. Forest conversion, inappropriate land use practices and timber logging by a variety of actors have caused widespread resou…
Sustainable development and the water–energy–food nexus: A perspective on livelihoods
The water–energy–food nexus is being promoted as a conceptual tool for achieving sustainable development. Frameworks for implementing nexus thinking, however, have failed to explicitly or adequately incorporate sustainable livelihoods perspectives. This is counterintuitive given that livelihoods are key to achieving sustainable development. In this paper we present a critical review of nexus approaches and identify potential linkages with sustain…
The Politics and Ethics of Land Concessions in Rural Cambodia
In rural Cambodia the rampant allocation of state land to political elites and foreign investors in the form of “Economic Land Concessions (ELCs)”—estimated to cover an area equivalent to more than 50 % of the country’s arable land—has been associated with encroachment on farmland, community forests and indigenous territories and has contributed to a rapid increase of rural landlessness. By contrast, less than 7,000 ha of land have been allotted …
Stakeholder participation in agricultural research projects: A conceptual framework for reflection and decision-making
Recent discourse in the field of participatory agricultural research has focused on how to blend various forms and intensities of stakeholder participation with quality agricultural science, moving beyond the simple “farmer-first” ideology of the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet, most existing frameworks of participation in agricultural research still adhere to a linear typology of participatory research with an inherent claim of “the more participatio…
Climate adaptation strategies in Fiji: The role of social norms and cultural values
Variations of Late Socialist Development: Integration and Marginalization in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam and Laos
Participatory computer simulation to support collective decision-making: Potential and limits of stakeholder involvement
Legal and social protection for migrant farm workers: Lessons from Covid-19
Development-induced displacement in Asia: Conflicts, Risks, and Resilience
This introduction to the themed special feature on development-induced displacement in Asia discusses the scope and major drivers of development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) in Asia, and recent policy developments at the national and international level. It describes some of the existing conceptual frameworks in the field of DIDR and presents a new set of questions and concerns that are addressed by the five articles that make up …
Niche action and system harmonization for institutional change: Prospects for demand-driven agricultural extension in Vietnam
Disaster Preparedness and the Abeyance of Agency: Christian Responses to Tropical Cyclone Winston in Fiji
International practices of disaster preparedness presume human agency, particularly at the household level, as an important pre-emptive response to anticipated natural hazards. Our analysis of Fijian responses to Tropical Cyclone Winston indicates that preparedness is also regarded as important by cyclone survivors but has a moral dimension that can be used to assign blame to underprepared members of the community. However, Fijian villagers’ expe…
Ethiopia's Challenge to Egyptian Hegemony in the Nile River Basin: The Case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Home to more than 160 million people, the Nile River Basin has become one of the hotspots of the global quest for food, water and energy security. Moving closer to its completion, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) highlights the interplay between the food, water, and energy sectors and their implications on geopolitical power relations in the region. Despite Ethiopia having the highest volumetric contribution to the Nile river flow, Egyp…
Can public GAP standards reduce agricultural pesticide use? The case of fruit and vegetable farming in northern Thailand
In response to the chronic overuse and misuse of pesticides in agriculture, governments in Southeast Asia have sought to improve food safety by introducing public standards of good agricultural practices (GAP). Using quantitative farm-level data from an intensive horticultural production system in northern Thailand, we test if fruit and vegetable producers who follow the public GAP standard use fewer and less hazardous pesticides than producers w…
Willingness of upstream and downstream resource managers to engage in compensation schemes for environmental services
Providing compensation for agricultural conservation practices adopted by upstream farmers is still an alien concept in the Thai political context. The governance of common-pool natural resources, such as forest and water, has traditionally been under the control of powerful government line agencies, while the contribution of local communities to natural resource conservation have been hardly recognized by policy-makers. Drawing on a case study i…
Rewarding the upland poor for saving the commons? Evidence from Southeast Asia
The Southeast Asian uplands provide livelihood opportunities for more than 100 million people. Many of these are poor smallholder farmers who are economically, socially and politically marginalized, suffer from tenure insecurity and have few options other than drawing on the uplands' natural resources to sustain their living. Forest conversion, inappropriate land use practices and timber logging by a variety of actors have caused widespread resou…
There's so much more to that sinking island!”—Restorying migration from Kiribati and Tuvalu to Aotearoa New Zealand
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Many Pacific people are considering cross-border mobility in response to the climate crisis, despite exclusion from international protection frameworks. The 'Migration with dignity' concept facilitates immigration within existing laws but without host government support. Through the metaphor of Pacific navigation, we explore the role of dignity in the lives of I-Kiribati and Tuvaluans in Aotearoa New Zealand. METHODS: Combini…
Adapting the innovation systems approach to agricultural development in Vietnam: Challenges to the public extension service
Eliciting citizen preferences for multifunctional agriculture in the watershed areas of northern Thailand through choice experiment and latent class models
Can Paper Mulberry Contribute to Building Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Northern Laos
Most ethnic minority villages in northern Lao PDR continue to rely on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for much of their subsistence and cash economy.Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) is an important NTFP in many parts of northern Laos, providing opportunities for earning cash income, particularly for women.Since the plant has been successfully domesticated by local people, it has also been widely proposed as the basis for a sustainable …
Integrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: Measuring the Costs and Benefits
Until recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai–Vietnamese–German collaborative research programme on ‘Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia’, in which participatory elements were successfully integrated into conventional agricultural research as add-on a…
Diversity of Water Management Systems: Examples from Hmong and Thai Communities in Mae Sa Watershed, Northern Thailand
In Thailand water is widely perceived as an open access resource. It is also common belief that organization of highland irrigation in northern Thailand is characterized by a relatively simple structure, and that local communities are not able to adjust their management practices to new realities. The existence of diverse forms of control, ownership and rights of use relating to water resources is widely ignored. This goes along with a stereotypi…
Land tenure and water rights in Thailand and Vietnam: Challenges for ethnic minorities in mountainous forest regions
Ethnie minorities in the mountainous forest regions of northern Thailand and northern Vietnam live in a particularly restrictive political, social and economic environment. Widespread degradation of land, water and forest resources has adverse effects on the livelihoods of these groups. Given the dramatically increasing scarcity of natural resources, regulation of resource access and allocation are becoming fundamental for the development of sust…
Participatory computer simulation to support collective decision-making: Potential and limits of stakeholder involvement
Integrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: Measuring the Costs and Benefits
Until recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai–Vietnamese–German collaborative research programme on ‘Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia’, in which participatory elements were successfully integrated into conventional agricultural research as add-on a…
Juggling Multiple Roles or Falling Between all Stools? Insider Action Research in a Collaborative Agricultural Research Program in Southeast Asia
Action research has been part of the methodological spectrum of the social sciences for a long time. After an initial boom period in the 1970s and 1980s, however, the discussion has now abated somewhat. At present, action research is promoted mainly in two applied fields: In the context of organizational research and in development-oriented agricultural research, commonly under the label ‘participatory research’. In this paper, we analyze the pot…
Rewarding the upland poor for saving the commons? Evidence from Southeast Asia
The Southeast Asian uplands provide livelihood opportunities for more than 100 million people. Many of these are poor smallholder farmers who are economically, socially and politically marginalized, suffer from tenure insecurity and have few options other than drawing on the uplands' natural resources to sustain their living. Forest conversion, inappropriate land use practices and timber logging by a variety of actors have caused widespread resou…
Willingness of upstream and downstream resource managers to engage in compensation schemes for environmental services
Providing compensation for agricultural conservation practices adopted by upstream farmers is still an alien concept in the Thai political context. The governance of common-pool natural resources, such as forest and water, has traditionally been under the control of powerful government line agencies, while the contribution of local communities to natural resource conservation have been hardly recognized by policy-makers. Drawing on a case study i…
Rewarding the upland poor for saving the commons? Evidence from Southeast Asia
The Southeast Asian uplands provide livelihood opportunities for more than 100 million people. Many of these are poor smallholder farmers who are economically, socially and politically marginalized, suffer from tenure insecurity and have few options other than drawing on the uplands' natural resources to sustain their living. Forest conversion, inappropriate land use practices and timber logging by a variety of actors have caused widespread resou…
Variations of Late Socialist Development: Integration and Marginalization in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam and Laos
Stakeholder participation in agricultural research projects: A conceptual framework for reflection and decision-making
Recent discourse in the field of participatory agricultural research has focused on how to blend various forms and intensities of stakeholder participation with quality agricultural science, moving beyond the simple “farmer-first” ideology of the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet, most existing frameworks of participation in agricultural research still adhere to a linear typology of participatory research with an inherent claim of “the more participatio…
Can Paper Mulberry Contribute to Building Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Northern Laos
Most ethnic minority villages in northern Lao PDR continue to rely on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for much of their subsistence and cash economy.Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) is an important NTFP in many parts of northern Laos, providing opportunities for earning cash income, particularly for women.Since the plant has been successfully domesticated by local people, it has also been widely proposed as the basis for a sustainable …
Agricultural Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Processes in Vietnam's Northwestern Uplands: State-governed or Demand-driven
Fostering Incentive-Based Policies and Partnerships for Integrated Watershed Management in the Southeast Asian Uplands
This paper attempts to identify the major factors associated with some of the failures and successes of integrated watershed management policies and projects with a particular emphasis on the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia. It argues that many policy measures have been misguided by failing to acknowledge the multidimensional facets of sustainable watershed management and putting too much emphasis on command-and-control approaches to resource …
Can public GAP standards reduce agricultural pesticide use? The case of fruit and vegetable farming in northern Thailand
In response to the chronic overuse and misuse of pesticides in agriculture, governments in Southeast Asia have sought to improve food safety by introducing public standards of good agricultural practices (GAP). Using quantitative farm-level data from an intensive horticultural production system in northern Thailand, we test if fruit and vegetable producers who follow the public GAP standard use fewer and less hazardous pesticides than producers w…
The Politics and Ethics of Land Concessions in Rural Cambodia
In rural Cambodia the rampant allocation of state land to political elites and foreign investors in the form of “Economic Land Concessions (ELCs)”—estimated to cover an area equivalent to more than 50 % of the country’s arable land—has been associated with encroachment on farmland, community forests and indigenous territories and has contributed to a rapid increase of rural landlessness. By contrast, less than 7,000 ha of land have been allotted …
Adapting the innovation systems approach to agricultural development in Vietnam: Challenges to the public extension service
Niche action and system harmonization for institutional change: Prospects for demand-driven agricultural extension in Vietnam
Sustainable development and the water–energy–food nexus: A perspective on livelihoods
The water–energy–food nexus is being promoted as a conceptual tool for achieving sustainable development. Frameworks for implementing nexus thinking, however, have failed to explicitly or adequately incorporate sustainable livelihoods perspectives. This is counterintuitive given that livelihoods are key to achieving sustainable development. In this paper we present a critical review of nexus approaches and identify potential linkages with sustain…
Development-induced displacement in Asia: Conflicts, Risks, and Resilience
This introduction to the themed special feature on development-induced displacement in Asia discusses the scope and major drivers of development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) in Asia, and recent policy developments at the national and international level. It describes some of the existing conceptual frameworks in the field of DIDR and presents a new set of questions and concerns that are addressed by the five articles that make up …
Ethiopia's Challenge to Egyptian Hegemony in the Nile River Basin: The Case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Home to more than 160 million people, the Nile River Basin has become one of the hotspots of the global quest for food, water and energy security. Moving closer to its completion, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) highlights the interplay between the food, water, and energy sectors and their implications on geopolitical power relations in the region. Despite Ethiopia having the highest volumetric contribution to the Nile river flow, Egyp…
Eliciting citizen preferences for multifunctional agriculture in the watershed areas of northern Thailand through choice experiment and latent class models
Climate adaptation strategies in Fiji: The role of social norms and cultural values
South African community in Auckland: Natural hazards and the resilience to a potential disaster event
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the resilience of the South African community in Auckland to a potential hazard event. Design/methodology/approach The research collected data from both primary and secondary sources. The research used parametric and non-parametric analytical procedures for quantitative data and a general inductive approach to qualitative data analysis and a three-step coding cycle for interviews. A content anal…
Patrons of disaster: The role of political patronage in flood response in the Solomon Islands
Urbanisation and disaster risk: The resilience of the Nigerian community in Auckland to natural hazards
Community resources and the ability to organise them in times of challenges are essential in resilience. This study investigated the resilience of the Nigerian community in Auckland to the risk of natural hazards. Auckland has a multi-hazard landscape and an increasing rate of urbanisation which encompasses diverse communities and nationalities. The study examined five resources, the social, economic, communication, disaster competency and physic…
Geography (25 works) · Economics (22 works) · Political science (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Agriculture (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Environmental resource management (12 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works)