R Friend
Biographic Data
| ID | 36128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Friend |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Friend |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5861-1523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Community-based sustainability initiatives: The quality of relationships matter
The quality of relationships between different actors involved in community-based sustainability initiatives is central to their success. This study examines the role of the qualities of social relationships within 22 different community-based sustainability initiatives each framed round different types of sustainability challenges, from flooding and climate change to community development and youth engagement. Research involved 37 semi structure…
Thailand’s policy vacuum: Land use planning as sites of negotiation and contestation
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand
In an era of rapid urbanisation, understanding how marginalised groups shape and are shaped by planning has never been more urgent. Here, we focus on the political capability of marginalised groups, centring analysis on the control (or lack of control) that they have over their livelihoods and environment. Focused on the politics of participatory planning that surround the Kirtipur and Baan Mankong Housing Projects in Nepal and Thailand, we devel…
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective
This paper addresses why food security implications of projected losses to inland capture fisheries due to hydropower development have been neglected in policy arenas. Drawing on the case of the Lower Mekong Basin, this paper applies a conceptual framework for analyzing this question as a case of fundamental food system change. Four inter-related axes of change – narratives, actors, institutions and resources – constitute the framework for analyz…
Learning through interdisciplinary dialogue: Methodological approaches for bridging epistemological divides
Scientific innovations for sustainable development often make huge promises about overcoming climate change, or promote technological innovations that have potential development implications. However, the social outcomes of such interventions are often considered superficially; thus potentially reinforcing injustices or producing unforeseen, undesirable outcomes. Increasingly, projects claim to have an interdisciplinary dimension, but processes o…
Climate change and non-migration — exploring the role of place relations in rural and coastal Bangladesh
Of growing research and policy interest are the experiences of people living under conditions of climate change–induced environmental stress, which either are unable to migrate (sometimes described as a ‘trapped population’) or are seemingly unwilling to do so (sometimes described as the ‘voluntarily immobile’). This paper problematises and expands upon these binary categories: examining the complex dimensionality of non-migration as a form of pl…
Building inclusive cities for a sustainable future
Fixing a Swamp of Cobras: The Clash between Capital and Water in Shaping Urban Vulnerabilities
This paper addresses how capital can refashion landscapes and patterns of risk and vulnerability. Drawing on the emblematic case of the conversion of Thailand’s Cobra Swamp into Suvarnabhumi International Airport we argue that there is a fundamental clash between the internal logic of capital accumulation and the ecology of water that occurs in places in which land is under water for much of the year. Counterintuitively investment in public infra…
Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong region: Drivers of transformation and pathways of change
Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong Region are undergoing transformations because of increasing engagement in international trade, alongside economic growth, dietary change and urbanisation. Food systems approaches are often used to understand these kinds of transformation processes, with particular strengths in linking social, economic and environmental dimensions of food at multiple scales. We argue that while the food systems approach …
Urban Resilience
Urban resilience has come to play a central role in the new urban policy agenda, as well as in the academic literature on cities, urbanization, and links with disasters and climate change. It is a concept that draws on a range of academic disciplines and theoretical backgrounds, each with its own strengths and weaknesses in application. More importantly, urban resilience represents a new discourse, with a whole set of metaphors, story lines, and …
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Rights to urban climate resilience: Moving beyond poverty and vulnerability
Urbanization represents a transformation of social‐ecological systems. In Asia within a generation, the dramatic pace and extent of urbanization transformed the ecological landscape and caused a fundamental shift in labor and production from rural, agricultural society to urban, industrialized society. Much of this has and continues to occur in locations that are hazardous and will exacerbate future climate risks. While Asia leads this process of…
What is the purpose of urban climate resilience? Implications for addressing poverty and vulnerability
Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities
This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create or strengthen networks, build appreciation for complexity and uncertainty among stakeholders, provide a space for deliberating concepts such as vulnerability and res…
Poverty in small-scale fisheries: Old Issue, New Analysis
Using a new framework combining vulnerability and exclusion as two central dimensions of poverty, this article revisits some of the long-standing beliefs about poverty in small-scale fisheries. We argue that the issue of poverty in fish-dependent communities cannot be reduced to a simple correlation between income poverty and fishery dependence. A more thorough analysis is required that must account for the diversity of fishing-related livelihood…
Overplaying Overfishing: A Cautionary Tale from the Mekong
Overfishing is a messy and contested term often associated with problems of numbers of people, particularly poor people, and something inherent in the nature of fisheries themselves. It has an intuitive appeal, implying something wrong and something that needs to be done. Although often grounded in science, when overfishing appears in policy debates in the Mekong its definition is rarely stated and the lack of evidence is readily acknowledged. Ov…
Inland capture fisheries in the Mekong and their place and potential within food-led regional development
Poverty in small-scale fisheries: Old Issue, New Analysis
Using a new framework combining vulnerability and exclusion as two central dimensions of poverty, this article revisits some of the long-standing beliefs about poverty in small-scale fisheries. We argue that the issue of poverty in fish-dependent communities cannot be reduced to a simple correlation between income poverty and fishery dependence. A more thorough analysis is required that must account for the diversity of fishing-related livelihood…
Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities
This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create or strengthen networks, build appreciation for complexity and uncertainty among stakeholders, provide a space for deliberating concepts such as vulnerability and res…
Fixing a Swamp of Cobras: The Clash between Capital and Water in Shaping Urban Vulnerabilities
This paper addresses how capital can refashion landscapes and patterns of risk and vulnerability. Drawing on the emblematic case of the conversion of Thailand’s Cobra Swamp into Suvarnabhumi International Airport we argue that there is a fundamental clash between the internal logic of capital accumulation and the ecology of water that occurs in places in which land is under water for much of the year. Counterintuitively investment in public infra…
Inland capture fisheries in the Mekong and their place and potential within food-led regional development
Climate change and non-migration — exploring the role of place relations in rural and coastal Bangladesh
Of growing research and policy interest are the experiences of people living under conditions of climate change–induced environmental stress, which either are unable to migrate (sometimes described as a ‘trapped population’) or are seemingly unwilling to do so (sometimes described as the ‘voluntarily immobile’). This paper problematises and expands upon these binary categories: examining the complex dimensionality of non-migration as a form of pl…
Thailand’s policy vacuum: Land use planning as sites of negotiation and contestation
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Overplaying Overfishing: A Cautionary Tale from the Mekong
Overfishing is a messy and contested term often associated with problems of numbers of people, particularly poor people, and something inherent in the nature of fisheries themselves. It has an intuitive appeal, implying something wrong and something that needs to be done. Although often grounded in science, when overfishing appears in policy debates in the Mekong its definition is rarely stated and the lack of evidence is readily acknowledged. Ov…
Community-based sustainability initiatives: The quality of relationships matter
The quality of relationships between different actors involved in community-based sustainability initiatives is central to their success. This study examines the role of the qualities of social relationships within 22 different community-based sustainability initiatives each framed round different types of sustainability challenges, from flooding and climate change to community development and youth engagement. Research involved 37 semi structure…
Learning through interdisciplinary dialogue: Methodological approaches for bridging epistemological divides
Scientific innovations for sustainable development often make huge promises about overcoming climate change, or promote technological innovations that have potential development implications. However, the social outcomes of such interventions are often considered superficially; thus potentially reinforcing injustices or producing unforeseen, undesirable outcomes. Increasingly, projects claim to have an interdisciplinary dimension, but processes o…
Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong region: Drivers of transformation and pathways of change
Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong Region are undergoing transformations because of increasing engagement in international trade, alongside economic growth, dietary change and urbanisation. Food systems approaches are often used to understand these kinds of transformation processes, with particular strengths in linking social, economic and environmental dimensions of food at multiple scales. We argue that while the food systems approach …
Rights to urban climate resilience: Moving beyond poverty and vulnerability
Urbanization represents a transformation of social‐ecological systems. In Asia within a generation, the dramatic pace and extent of urbanization transformed the ecological landscape and caused a fundamental shift in labor and production from rural, agricultural society to urban, industrialized society. Much of this has and continues to occur in locations that are hazardous and will exacerbate future climate risks. While Asia leads this process of…
Inland capture fisheries in the Mekong and their place and potential within food-led regional development
Poverty in small-scale fisheries: Old Issue, New Analysis
Using a new framework combining vulnerability and exclusion as two central dimensions of poverty, this article revisits some of the long-standing beliefs about poverty in small-scale fisheries. We argue that the issue of poverty in fish-dependent communities cannot be reduced to a simple correlation between income poverty and fishery dependence. A more thorough analysis is required that must account for the diversity of fishing-related livelihood…
Overplaying Overfishing: A Cautionary Tale from the Mekong
Overfishing is a messy and contested term often associated with problems of numbers of people, particularly poor people, and something inherent in the nature of fisheries themselves. It has an intuitive appeal, implying something wrong and something that needs to be done. Although often grounded in science, when overfishing appears in policy debates in the Mekong its definition is rarely stated and the lack of evidence is readily acknowledged. Ov…
What is the purpose of urban climate resilience? Implications for addressing poverty and vulnerability
Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities
This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create or strengthen networks, build appreciation for complexity and uncertainty among stakeholders, provide a space for deliberating concepts such as vulnerability and res…
Rights to urban climate resilience: Moving beyond poverty and vulnerability
Urbanization represents a transformation of social‐ecological systems. In Asia within a generation, the dramatic pace and extent of urbanization transformed the ecological landscape and caused a fundamental shift in labor and production from rural, agricultural society to urban, industrialized society. Much of this has and continues to occur in locations that are hazardous and will exacerbate future climate risks. While Asia leads this process of…
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Urban Resilience
Urban resilience has come to play a central role in the new urban policy agenda, as well as in the academic literature on cities, urbanization, and links with disasters and climate change. It is a concept that draws on a range of academic disciplines and theoretical backgrounds, each with its own strengths and weaknesses in application. More importantly, urban resilience represents a new discourse, with a whole set of metaphors, story lines, and …
Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong region: Drivers of transformation and pathways of change
Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong Region are undergoing transformations because of increasing engagement in international trade, alongside economic growth, dietary change and urbanisation. Food systems approaches are often used to understand these kinds of transformation processes, with particular strengths in linking social, economic and environmental dimensions of food at multiple scales. We argue that while the food systems approach …
Building inclusive cities for a sustainable future
Fixing a Swamp of Cobras: The Clash between Capital and Water in Shaping Urban Vulnerabilities
This paper addresses how capital can refashion landscapes and patterns of risk and vulnerability. Drawing on the emblematic case of the conversion of Thailand’s Cobra Swamp into Suvarnabhumi International Airport we argue that there is a fundamental clash between the internal logic of capital accumulation and the ecology of water that occurs in places in which land is under water for much of the year. Counterintuitively investment in public infra…
Climate change and non-migration — exploring the role of place relations in rural and coastal Bangladesh
Of growing research and policy interest are the experiences of people living under conditions of climate change–induced environmental stress, which either are unable to migrate (sometimes described as a ‘trapped population’) or are seemingly unwilling to do so (sometimes described as the ‘voluntarily immobile’). This paper problematises and expands upon these binary categories: examining the complex dimensionality of non-migration as a form of pl…
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective
This paper addresses why food security implications of projected losses to inland capture fisheries due to hydropower development have been neglected in policy arenas. Drawing on the case of the Lower Mekong Basin, this paper applies a conceptual framework for analyzing this question as a case of fundamental food system change. Four inter-related axes of change – narratives, actors, institutions and resources – constitute the framework for analyz…
Learning through interdisciplinary dialogue: Methodological approaches for bridging epistemological divides
Scientific innovations for sustainable development often make huge promises about overcoming climate change, or promote technological innovations that have potential development implications. However, the social outcomes of such interventions are often considered superficially; thus potentially reinforcing injustices or producing unforeseen, undesirable outcomes. Increasingly, projects claim to have an interdisciplinary dimension, but processes o…
Community-based sustainability initiatives: The quality of relationships matter
The quality of relationships between different actors involved in community-based sustainability initiatives is central to their success. This study examines the role of the qualities of social relationships within 22 different community-based sustainability initiatives each framed round different types of sustainability challenges, from flooding and climate change to community development and youth engagement. Research involved 37 semi structure…
Thailand’s policy vacuum: Land use planning as sites of negotiation and contestation
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand
In an era of rapid urbanisation, understanding how marginalised groups shape and are shaped by planning has never been more urgent. Here, we focus on the political capability of marginalised groups, centring analysis on the control (or lack of control) that they have over their livelihoods and environment. Focused on the politics of participatory planning that surround the Kirtipur and Baan Mankong Housing Projects in Nepal and Thailand, we devel…
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