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Micah Fisher

@radandima

Research Fellow East-West Center studying SEA forest and society; water and cities; climate and disaster

 hawaii and indonesia
Joined September 2008
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All the details for our 2024 Fall Colloquium Series are now available on our blog. Please share widely. buff.ly/4erz2uE
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New freely available article out at @EWCResearch on smallholder expansion and privatization of communal forestlands in southeast #myanmar. Findings raise questions on revolution and future decentralized federalism eastwestcenter.org/publicati…
Smallholder Cash Cropping Expansion and the Privatization of Communal Forestland in Southeast...

Smallholder Cash Cropping Expansion and the Privatization of Communal Forestland in Southeast...

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This is one of those headlines that everyone is talking about but nobody knows how to talk about: Lack of young farmers jeopardizes food security, say experts thejakartapost.com/business/…
Lack of young farmers jeopardizes food security, say experts - Economy - The Jakarta Post

Lack of young farmers jeopardizes food security, say experts - Economy - The Jakarta Post

This year's BPS agricultural survey points to a lack of farmer regeneration as well as other factors suggesting a significant decline in future productivity, which experts say could leave the country...

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Finally able to share this research, yay! authors.elsevier.com/a/1i7At…
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Hey friends, my colleagues and I will be talking about BRI (aka Chinese investment) in SEAsia @uhcseas this Wednesday 15 Nov 12-1.30 pm HST. Hybrid, zoom registration below.
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So apparently the fabulous Indonesian series #CigaretteGirl is racing up the Netflix charts in Latin America and Romania. Why? Hint: strong women, duplicitous men, passion denied, all wrapped up in elliptical storytelling. @NistorNis #GadisKretek
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After moratoriums, institutions calling foul, public shame, & proof of wrongdoing, cameras look away and it takes a huge effort to collect the fines. Contrast: the ease of concessions, burning, violence, emissions, loss of forest meaning and use. news.mongabay.com/2023/11/bu…
Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

JAKARTA — A palm oil company in Indonesia has finally started paying off a $23 million fine for burning an important Sumatran orangutan habitat more than a decade ago, highlighting the difficulty of...

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Was amazing to be part of this hybrid discussion today. Thanks to the student panelists for highlighting the nuances of what makes field research such an important learning experience. Key for doing environmental ethics and collaborative research initiatives right.
UH Mānoa CSEAS (@uhcseas) profile pictureUH Mānoa CSEAS@uhcseas1 Nov 2023
Join us this afternoon from 3:00-4:00 pm HST for our 3rd LuceSea webinar series on "Reflections on Cross-cultural research and Methodologies." In-person Venue: Burns Hall Register Online: tinyurl.com/4pebt7wj
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Congrast @nurhadys and @forstsociety on leading this effort. I learned a ton through your engagement with the commons and commoning, and your empirical work, the depth of community engagements and relationships, truly makes this an exceptional piece of collaborative scholarship.
Forest and Society Research Group (@forstsociety) profile pictureForest and Society Research Group@forstsociety1 Nov 2023
doi.org/10.24259/fs.v7i2.259… . New article in FS, "Placing the Commoning First: Getting Beyond the Patronage Trap in Natural Resource Decentralization Policies" .
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What does illegal mean when it is common practice? At the very least, it's allowed to be called illegal, which suggests there is recourse to accountability, and thus "legality"? news.mongabay.com/2023/10/re…
Report: Half of plantations in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland are illegal

Report: Half of plantations in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland are illegal

JAKARTA — Nearly half of oil palm plantations in Indonesia’s Riau province, the heartland of the commodity’s production, is illegal, according to a new report. The report was published by a coalition...

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Mining is having a terrible environmental impact on freshwater bodies. We knew but now it is quantified and published. Will it help changes? phys.org/news/2023-08-21st-c… – at Tanah Sareal, Indonesia
Study finds 21st century mining boom across the tropics is degrading rivers

Study finds 21st century mining boom across the tropics is degrading rivers

Gold and mineral mining in and near rivers across the tropics is degrading waterways in 49 countries, according to a Dartmouth-led study. Published in Nature, the findings represent the first...

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Expose @nytimes on nickel mining boom driven by global EV demand, linked to Chinese / US geopolitics, but also highlighting the extent of tradeoffs revolving around landscape and livelihood change taking place in Sulawesi. nytimes.com/2023/08/18/busin…
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As Indonesia "becomes hub for electric vehicle production, it's getting caught in rivalry between US and China. At stake is control over nickel, critical component of EV batteries... but has a downside: pollution & social strife on the island of Sulawesi" nytimes.com/2023/08/20/brief…
Monday Briefing: A Tricky Opportunity in Indonesia (Gift Article)

Monday Briefing: A Tricky Opportunity in Indonesia (Gift Article)

Also, the nostalgic craft of miniatures in China.

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This is not simply opinion. As a water commissioner who learned about the reassignment of our deputy when the media did on Weds night, the disaster capitalism is unfolding before my eyes, in real time, on letterhead exchanges. #watergrab
Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD (@akkagawa) profile pictureAurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD@akkagawa18 Aug 2023
If you read one thing about the #MauiFires and #LahainaFires, read this. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? | Naomi Klein and Kapuaʻala Sproat

Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? | Naomi Klein and Kapuaʻala Sproat

Big corporations, golf courses and hotels have been taking water from locals for years. Now the fire may result in even more devastating water theft

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Hawai'i firefighters have been telling me for several years they're seeing fires burn hotter and faster than in the past - and I trust their knowledge. But fire and land use histories tell us fallow lands and grassy fuels are the key issue - and one we can deal with locally
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From a rapid damage assessment by Microsoft/Red Cross using AI tools: preliminary estimate in #Lahaina is 1,205 buildings destroyed, another 238 60-80% damaged, and 279 between 20-60%
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