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POSITIONS |
2009 to present |
Lecturer and Research Scientist, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies |
20052008 |
Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. |
20012005 |
Lecturer and Post Doctoral Appointment, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. |
20012008 |
Program Director, Tropical Resources Institute, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. |
EDUCATION |
19941999 |
Yale University, New Haven, CT
PhD. In Forestry & Environmental Studies, 1999, entitled “Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia, 18811996.” |
19921994 |
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
Master of Environmental Sciences, in Tropical Ecology. |
19831987 |
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Biological Anthropology, magna cum laude.
Senior Honors Thesis: “Latah: A Culture-Bound Syndrome.” An examination of cultural and physiological origins of a behavioral trait specific to women in certain ethnic groups in Southeast Asia. |
HONORS, AWARDS, and GRANTS |
2009 |
Advancing Conservation in a Social Context, Travel grant to meet with collaborators in Athens, Georgia. |
2007 |
McMillan Center Faculty Support Grant, Livelihood Strategies of Agricultural Communities in the Buffer Zone of Cusuco National Park, Honduras, $5000 |
20062011 |
Yale Education, Leadership, and Training Initiative, Co-PI (Lead PI, Mark Ashton), $4.8 million to develop short courses and workshops on conservation of biodiversity for national in Latin America and Southeast Asia. |
2004-2007 |
Compton Foundation, Funds for Graduate Field Research Fellowships for African and Latin American Students, PI Curran, Doolittle and Yale FES Compton Foundation, $150,00 |
20012005 |
Agroforestry Fellowships for Africa. Awarded $20,000 annually from the World Agroforestry Centre for student fellowships, PI Curran and Doolittle |
2004 |
Agroforestry in Landscape Mosaics. Award from the World Agroforestry Centre to work as project manager on a collaboration between Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, University of Georgia Anthropology Department and World Agroforestry Centre, $15,000 |
2003 |
Yale Class of 1980 Video Editing Center, Co-PI David Kneas and Amity Doolittle, $8,500 |
2003 |
Larry and Margaret King Distinguished Lecture Series, PI Curran and Doolittle, $10,000 |
2003 |
Cooperative Grants, Association of International Educators, funding for “Strengthening International Student Capacity and Networks at Yale's School of the Environment,” $2,000 |
2002 |
Yale Center for the Study Globalization funding for Lecture and Film Series “Globalization and the Environment: International Agendas and Local Responses,” $15,000 |
2002 |
Yale Center for International and Area Studies funding for Lecture and Film Series “Globalization and the Environment: International Agendas and Local Responses,” $5,000 |
1997 |
Enders Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, $2,500 |
1996 |
Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, University of Malaya, Research Fellow |
1995 |
Fulbright-Hays, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, $32,000 |
1995 |
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program, Dissertation Improvement Award, $6,300 |
1995 |
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies, Southeast Asia Program, International Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, $8,000 |
1994 |
Yale Center for International and Area Studies, predissertation award |
1994 |
Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies, predissertation award |
19941998 |
Yale University Doctoral Fellowship |
1992, 1993 |
N. Brown Scholarship, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
An award offered to “individuals who have demonstrated particular promise as natural resource practitioners, scholars and conservationists.” |
1987 |
Radcliffe College President's Discretionary Fund, Harvard College
Support for research at Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA |
1987 |
International Fund for Animal Welfare
Support for research at Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA |
1987 |
World Wildlife Fund
Support for research at Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA |
1985, 1986, 1987 |
Harvard College Scholarship, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA |
19851987 |
Elizabeth Cary Aggasiz Certificate of Merit, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA |
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Doolittle, A. 2005. Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo): A Century of Native Struggles over Land Rights, 18811996. University of Washington Press, Nature and Culture Series. |
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Doolittle, Amity, under review. “Climate Change Negotiations: Who will die first, who will win twice?” Conservation and Society, Special Volume with Dan Brockington as Guest Editor. |
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Doolittle, A. in preparation. “Environmental Justice and Hurricane Katrina.” Curriculum to accompany documentary film “Trouble the Water,” https://streamingmoviesright.com/us/movie/trouble-the-water/. |
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Doolittle, A. et al. submitted. “Participation at the World Conservation Congress: Limits to and possibilities for increasing deliberation and inclusiveness.” Environmental Management. |
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Doolittle, A. 2008. “Stories and Maps, Images and Archives: Multi-Method Approach to the Political Ecology of Native Property Rights and Natural Resource Management in Sabah, Malaysia.” Environmental Conservation. |
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Doolittle, A. 2007. “Native Land Tenure, Conservation, and Development in a Pseudo-Democracy: Natural Resource Conflicts in Sabah, Malaysia.” Journal of Peasant Studies. 34(3): 474497. |
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Doolittle A. 2004. ”Powerful Persuasions: The Language of Property and Power in Sabah, Malaysia, 1881-1996.” Modern Asian Studies, 38 (4): 321850. |
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Doolittle A. 2003. “Colliding Discourses: Western Land Laws and Native Customary Rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 34 (1): 97126. |
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Doolittle, A. 2001. “Are They Making Fun of Us?: The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia.” Moussons: Social Science Research on Southeast Asia 4: 75-95. |
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Doolittle, A. 2001 “From Village Land to Native Reserve: Changes in Property Rights in Sabah, 1950-1996.” Human Ecology 29 (1): 69-98. |
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Doolittle, A. 1998. “Historical and Contemporary Views of Legal Pluralism in Sabah, Malaysia” Forum Commentary in Common Property Resource Digest, No. 47, December 1998. |
EDITED VOLUMES |
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Dove, Sajise and Doolittle, eds. 2009. Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia: Beyond the Sacred Forest Asia. Duke University Press, New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. |
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Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. 2005. Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia Monograph Series, Volume 54, Yale University. |
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Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. In preparation. “Changing Ways of Thinking about the Relations between Society and Environment” in Re-Interpreting Nature and Culture in Southeast Asia. |
BOOK CHAPTERS |
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Doolittle, A. 2009. “Re-defining Native Customary Law: Struggles over Property Rights Between Native Peoples and Colonial Rulers in Sabah, Malaysia” in Dove, Sajise and Doolittle, eds. Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia: Beyond the Sacred Forest Asia. Duke University Press, New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. |
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Dove, M. and A. Doolittle. 2009. “Introduction: The Field and this Study” in Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia: Beyond the Sacred Forest, New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. |
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Doolittle, A. 2006 ”Resources, Ideologies, and Nationalism: The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia“ In Development Brokers and Translators, David Mosse and Davis Lewis, eds. Bloomfield, Ct.: Kumarian Press. |
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Doolittle, A. 2006 “Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia 1881-1996” in Environmental Change in Native and Colonial Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, Wadley, R., ed, Leiden: KTLV Press. |
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Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. 2005. “Introduction: The Problem of Conserving Nature on Cultural Landscapes” in Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. Monograph Series, no. 54. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies. |
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Doolittle, A. 1990. “Latah Behavior by Females Among the Rungus of Sabah,” in V. Sutlive, ed. Female and Male in Borneo: Contributions and Challenges to Gender Studies, Borneo Research Council Monograph Series, Vol. 1. |
ENCYLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY, SAGE PRESS |
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Author of 14 entries original essays for this encyclopedia: ecological noble savage, Roy Rappaport, Vandana Shiva, Ramachandra Guha , Ester Boserup, land ethic, land degradation, balance of nature , fortress conservation, biopiracy , takings, usufruct rights, Theodore Roosevelt’s Conservation Administration. |
BOOK REVIEWS |
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Doolittle, A. 2007. Review of “The Complex Forest: Communities, Uncertainty, & Adaptive Collaborative Management,” Carol Colfer and “The Equitable Forest: Diversity, Community & Resource Management”, Carol Colfer, ed. Economic Anthropology. |
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Doolittle, A. 2005. Review of “In Search of the Rainforest,” Candace Slater, ed. American Anthropologist, June 10(7). |
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Doolittle, A. 2002. Review of “Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives,” Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes and Alan Bicker, eds. American Ethnologist 29 (1): 180-181. |
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Doolittle, A. 2000. Review of “The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance,” Philip Hirsch and Carol Warren, eds. Journal of Asian Studies 59 (3): 800-801. |
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE |
2009 to present |
Integration Landscape, Human, and Wildlife Health in the Tempisque-Bebedero Watershed, Costa Rica (with Organization of Tropical Studies) |
20082009 |
Event Ethnography, exploring decision-making, negotiation and discourse of human rights and equity in climate change discussions at the World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, Spain |
20072008 |
Preliminary research on “Livelihood Strategies of Agricultural Communities in the Buffer Zone of Cusuco National Park, Honduras,” Santo Tomas, Honduras. |
2005 to present |
Analysis of content and discourse of race and poverty in Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans. |
2006 |
Preliminary research on “Ribereños Livelihoods Under Threat: Conflicts between Communal Reserve and International Oil Extraction, Loreto, Peru” |
2005 |
Ethnography of a Human-Environmental Crisis: Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina, Huston, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana (with students from 2005 Environmental Justice Class). |
2004 |
Participatory Community-Based Mapping of Natural Resources Management, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2005. |
19951996 |
Dissertation Research, “Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia, 1881-1996.” Sabah, Malaysia. |
19941995 |
Archival research at the Public records Office on colonial treatment of native customary law in North Borneo, 1881-1962, Kew England. |
UNIVERSITY TEACHING |
* new interdisciplinary courses developed |
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies |
* FES 80166 |
Leaves, Livelihoods, and Landscapes: Ecology, Socio-Economics and Politics of Development across Borneo, co-taught with Lisa Curran 2006, 2008 |
* FES 70003 |
Qualitative Methods for Social Science Research, 1998-2007 |
* FES 80069 |
Topics in Environmental Justice, 2004-2008 |
* FES 765 |
Globalization and the Environment: International Agendas and Local Responses, co-taught with Lisa Curran, 2003 |
FES 80054 |
Agrarian Societies, co-taught with Jim Scott, 2007 |
FES 2158 |
Project Course, Worked with 72 masters’ students advising their project courses, 2003-2008 |
Yale College Advanced Undergraduate Seminars |
* CSSY 313 |
Anthropology and the Environment: Topics in Political Ecology, 2001 |
* EVST 285 |
Political Ecology: Nature, Power and Culture |
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS/INVITED LECTURES |
4/09 |
Discussant for “Trouble the Water,” a documentary about Hurricane Katrina. A redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning, at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale |
11/08 |
Guest Lecturer to Yale Student Interest Group on Environmental Justice. “Why USA has not achieved a Post-racial Society” |
10/08 |
Guest lecturer on “Environmental Justice and Public Health Issues” in Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, in Michelle Bells’ course, Environment and Human Health |
9/08 |
Guest lecturer on “Environmental Justice and Public Health Issues” in Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health |
5/08 |
Invited Speaker at Workshop on Teaching Environmental Justice, “Environmental Justice and Issues of Race and Sovereignty,” Wesleyan University |
3/08 |
Guest lecturer on “Environmental Justice and Public Health Issues” in Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health |
2/08 |
Invited Speaker, Environments Undone: The Political Ecology of Globalization and Development, "Native land tenure, conservation, and development in a pseudo-democracy: Sabah, Malaysia," University of North Carolina |
10/07 |
Guest Speaker on “Rapid Rural Appraisal Techniques” for Natural Resources Management Techniques in Mark Ashton’s Management Course |
1/07 |
Invited Speaker, Mt. Everett Regional School, Sheffield, MA, “Environmentalism in the 21st Century: a focus on environmental justice,” January 18, 2007 |
1/07 |
Invited Speaker, Mt. Everett Regional School, Sheffield, MA, “The Challenge of Integrated Conservation and Development,” January 18, 2007 |
3/06 |
Invited speaker, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Southeast Asian Studies., “Property and Politics in Sabah Malaysia: Native Struggles over Land Rights.” |
3/06 |
Invited speaker, Ohio University Athens Center for International Studies, “Property and Politics in Sabah Malaysia: Native Struggles over Land Rights.” |
5/05 |
Invited speaker, Stanford University Malaysia Forum. “The Conservation Landscape: Histories of Native Land Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia”. |
10/04 |
“Here There Be Tygers: Exploring Terra Incognito between Academia and Community in Participatory Mapping.” Presented at Conservation Without Borders: The Impact of Conservation on Human Communities at The Center for Tropical Ecology and Conservation and Antioch New England Graduate School. |
5/04 |
“International Politics and the Environment.” Presented at the Faculty Development Workshop Integrating Ethics into Environmental Studies at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. |
9/03 |
“Resources, Ideologies, and Nationalism: The Politics of Development in Postcolonial Sabah” Presented at Conference on Order and Disjuncture in Development at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. |
8/00 |
“Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia 1881-1996.” Presented at Conference on Environmental Change in Native and Colonial Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future at International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
4/99 |
“The Politics of Development in Postcolonial Malaysia,” Presented in a Panel on Local and Trans-local: Locating Resource Control in Shifting Fields of Identity and Power at the Association of Asian Studies, Boston, Mass, March 11-14, 1999. |
10/98 |
“The Politics of Development in Postcolonial Malaysia” Yale Council of Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University, October 7, 1998. |
10/98 |
Discussant for paper by Arun Agrawal, “The Production of Community-in-Conservation: The Forest Councils of Kumaon,” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, October 2, 1998. |
5/98 |
“Are They Making Fun of Us?: Exploring State-Society Relations through Narratives of Development Politics and Oral Traditions.” Conference on Interdisciplinary Work in Progress. Yale University, April 17-19, 1998. |
3/98 |
Discussant for paper by Peter Boomgaard, “In the Shadow of Rice: Roots and Tubers in Indonesian Agriculture,” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, March 6, 1998. |
2/97 |
Discussant for paper by Charles Zerner, Through a Green Lens: The Construction of Customary Environmental Law and Community in Indonesias Maluku Islands,” Law and Society Review, Vol. 28 (5, 1994): 1079-1121, Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, February 28, 1997. |
NON-YALE APPOINTMENTS |
2008 to present |
Environmental editor for Borneo Research Bulletin |
2008 to present |
Steering Committee for Research, Organization of Tropical Studies, charged with the goal to increase use of social sciences in OTS courses. |
2008 to present |
Founding Member ISHI project in Preserving Oral Tradition |
2006 to present |
Amazon Research Center, advisory board member, Iquitos, Peru |
2006 to present |
Applied Ecology Working Group at the Center for Tropical Forest Science of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
2006 |
Reader for Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
2006 |
External Examiner for Suzannah Sossman“Senior thesis: “Confluence of Politics and Ecology in the Brazilian Amazon,” Marlboro College, Vermont |
20052007 |
Operation Wallacea, Honduras, Social Science Project Advisor |
2004 to present |
Member of Commission on Environmental Economic and Social Policy, IUCN |
20002005 |
Society for Conservation Biology, Social Science Working Group |
2000 to present |
American Anthropological Association, member of the Environmental Anthropology section |
2000 to present |
Fund for Urgent Anthropology, Board of Sponsors |
2006 to present |
Borneo Research Council, Board Directors |
2000 to present |
Organization of Tropical Studies, Assembly of Delegates |
2000 to present |
Firebird Foundation, Board Member |
JOURNAL and PRESS MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS |
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American Anthropology |
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Journal of Ecological Economics |
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Hesperian Publications |
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Springer Science |
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Bullfrog Films |
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American Museum of Natural History Educational Modules |
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The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |
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Development and Change |
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Asia-Pacific Viewpoint |
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology |
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Conservation and Society |
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |
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Stanford University Press |
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Singapore University Press |
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University of Hawaii Press |
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Human Ecology |
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES |
Yale University Committees |
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2002 to present |
Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Board Member |
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2002 to present |
Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, Steering Committee |
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Committees |
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Search Committee for Senior Faculty, with special emphasis on diversity |
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Academic Disciplinary Committee |
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Faculty Development Committee |
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Space Committee |
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Sage Hall Renovation Committee |
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Social Ecology Focal Group |
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Steering Committee the Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI) |
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Admin istration of Compton Foundation grants |
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Advisor to FES student chapter of International Society for Tropical Forests (ISTF) |
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Advisory Board to PRORENA |
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Administration of IUCN internships |
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Steering Committee; Administration of TRI fellowship awards |
Letters of recommendation are available on request from the following professors: |
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Dr. Michael R. Dove, Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, micheal.dove@yale.edu |
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Dr. Diane Russell, Biodiversity and Social Science Specialist on the Biodiversity and Forestry Team within the USAID Economic Growth Agriculture and Trade Bureau, dirussell@usaid.gov |
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Dr. Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California at Berkeley, Environmental Policy, Science and Management, npeluso@nature.berkeley.edu |
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Dr. James C. Scott, Yale University, Department of Political Science, james.scott@yale.edu |
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Dr. Peter Brosius, University Of Georgia, Department of Anthropology, pbrosius@uga.edu |
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Dr. Mark Ashton, Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, mark.ashton@yale.edu |
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Dr. Lisa M. Curran, Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, lisa.curran@yale.edu |
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