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December 2011
Professor Lu Xing returns to Yunnan China   View Summary
6 December 2011
After a productive three months with the AMRC, Prof Lu Xing returns to his work with the GMS Study Centre at Yunnan University.
November 2011
Despite absence of legal tenure, change can happen: Bob Fisher writes   View Summary
10 November 2011
Bob Fisher, senior AMRC researcher, writes how in the absence of legal tenure, informal arrangements can help to foster local support for forest conservation and management.
October 2011
PhD student Soimart Rungmanee presents at Singapore conference   View Summary
25 October 2011
PhD student Soimart Rungmanee presented a paper entitled 'From Hinterland to Global City and Back to Borderlands: The Case of Cross-border Migration between Laos and Thailand' at the National University of Singapore.
Worawan Sukraroek wins a grant for PhD research in 2012    View Summary
11 October 2011
Worawan Sukraroek wins a research grant for 2012, funded by CGIAR Challenge Programme Water for Food and M-POWER.
September 2011
Visiting ALA Fellow Lu Xing arrives, Dr Kanokwan Manorom leaves   View Summary
22 September 2011
Visiting Australian Leadership Award Fellow Lu Xing arrives for three months from Yunnan University, China, and ALA Fellow Dr Kanokwan Manorom from Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand leaves.
August 2011
Olivia Dun's PhD research in the news   View Summary
23 August 2011
Olivia Dun's PhD research on agricultural and environmental change and migration in the Mekong Delta was mentioned in an article on rising seas in The Guardian.
AMRC welcomes visiting scholars   View Summary
16 August 2011
AMRC welcomes visiting scholars from Vietnam and Laos
'Mekong, Inc?' article by Isabelle Whitehead   View Summary
11 August 2011
Isabelle Whitehead, a Geography Honours student at the University of Sydney, examines the links between private corporations and dam development on the Mekong River.
July 2011
'Mekong mainstream dams: a revival?' by Professor Philip Hirsch   View Summary
21 July 2011
Professor Philip HIrsch discusses the resource geopolitics around a dam proposed for the Mekong mainstream.
June 2011
Mekong dam plans threaten the natural order - Milton Osborne in The Australian   View Summary
30 June 2011
Published in The Australian yesterday, Milton Osborne of how the planned dam at Xayaburi in Laos is focusing attention on the Mekong, and its future, once again.
AMRC staff changes   View Summary
16 June 2011
Kate Griffiths and Jess McLean photoAfter five years of excellent work with the AMRC, Kate Griffiths is moving on and Jess McLean is joining the team.
May 2011
New book on climate change in the Mekong   View Summary
16 May 2011
Produced by the Public Policy Studies Institute at Chiang Mai University in collaboration with the Australian Mekong Resource Centre and the World Agroforestry Centre.
A new geopolitics of mekong dams?   View Summary
2 May 2011
Phil Hirsch writes an article in the Bangkok Post on the Xayaburi dam disupte and the subsequent shift in relations between Mekong countries.
April 2011
AMRC hosts a second Australian Leadership Fellow for 2011   View Summary
18 April 2011
Associate Professor Lu Xing, Director of the Greater Mekong Subregion Studies Centre at Yunnan University in China, will spend three months from August to November 2011 working with Professor Philip Hirsch, Director of the Australian Mekong Resource Centre under an Australian Leadership AWard Fellowship.
AMRC Director co-authors new book on land dilemmas in SE Asia   View Summary
18 April 2011
Professor Philip Hirsch and two Canadian colleagues: prominent anthropologist Tania Murray Li and political scientist Derek Hall have recently co-authored a book named 'Powers of Exclusion: Land dilemmas in Southeast Asia'
Cambodia Water Project publishes on hydrology and irrigation management   View Summary
5 April 2011
The Cambodia Water Project (WRMRCDP) has published a working paper and policy brief on hydrological knowledge, community participation and irrigation allocation in Cambodia.
March 2011
AMRC Director on 7:30   View Summary
25 March 2011
AMRC Director Professor Philip Hirsch was on ABC TV's 7:30 where he spoke about the Xayaburi Dam in northern Laos.
Dr Manorom speaks on radio about the Pak Mun dam   View Summary
16 March 2011
AMRC visiting fellow Dr Manorom speaks with radio 2SER about the Pak Mun dam in Thailand
Australian Leadership Fellow Hosted at AMRC   View Summary
15 March 2011
The Australian Mekong Resource Centre (AMRC) is hosting Dr Kanokwan Manorom from Ubonratchathani University, Thailand between March 2011 and August 2011.