Current Research
Title: Social and Community Forestry of Pakistan
Countries / Regions: Pakistan/South Asia
Summary Description: Study of social and community forestry in Pakistan.
Detailed Description: Professor Dove is analyzing and publishing on the interface between farmer land management, state policy, and tree/forest ecology in Pakistan. He spent four years in Pakistan working (sponsored by US AID) in the federal forest service.
Institution: US AID program
Title: Colonial Perceptions of Nature
Countries / Regions: Indonesia, Malaysia /Southeast Asia
Summary Description: Dutch colonizers view of Indo-Malaysian nature.
Detailed Description: Professor Carpenter has recently completed, in collaboration with Michael Dove, a study of changing Dutch perceptions of nature in the Indo-Malay region during two phases of the colonial period. She plans to widen the theoretical scope of this study for future publications.
Collaborators: Carol Carpenter.
Title: Natural hazards in Java
Countries / Regions: Indonesia /Southeast Asia
Summary Description: Human responses to natural hazards on Java.
Detailed Description: Professor Dove is collaborating with a researcher at Gadjah Mada University on a long-term study (1980-present) of human responses to volcanic hazards on Java.
Collaborators: Bambang Hudayana
Institution: Gadjah Mada University
Title: Visiting faculty
Countries / Regions: Indonesia /Southeast Asia
Summary Description: Appointment at Padjadjaran University, Bandung.
Detailed Description: Professor Dove holds an appointment as Visiting Faculty Member at Padjadjaran University, Bandung.
Institution: Padjadjaran University, Bandung
Title: Biodiversity and Society in Southeast Asia
Countries / Regions: Indonesia, Philippines /Southeast Asia
Summary Description: Collaborative research with UPLB and SEARCA in the Philippines and Padjadjaran University in Indonesia.
Detailed Description: Professor Dove, in collaboration with Percy E. Sajise and Amity Doolittle, is writing up and publishing collaborative research on biodiversity and society with scholars and institutions in the region, especially UPLB and SEARCA in the Philippines and Padjadjaran University in Indonesia. This research was funded by multiple grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Collaborators: Percy E. Sajise, Amity Doolittle.
Institution: UPLB and SEARCA in the Philippines and Padjadjaran University in Indonesia.
Title: Social Ecology of Globalization
Countries / Regions: South America, North America, Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia
Summary Description: Comparative social-ecological analyses of globalization
Detailed Description: Professor Dove and the students in his doctoral lab are carrying out ongoing, comparative studies of the implications for conservation and development of the evolving interface between local communities, nation-states, and the forces of globalization.
Collaborators: Various
Title: Southeast Asian Grasslands
Countries / Regions: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Southeast Asia.
Summary Description: History of intellectual thought on the grasslands of Southeast Asia.
Detailed Description: Professor Dove has compiled and is publishing an analysis of the canonical work on the fire-climax grasslands of Southeast Asia.
Collaborators: New York Botanical Gardens Press
