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Courses
Taught in 2008-2009
1st
term:
GRM1023 Resources, Society & Environment
GRM2321 Globalization and Development
GRM3021 Final Year Thesis I
2nd
term:
GRM2126 Methods for Resource Evaluation & Planning
GRM3022 Final Year Thesis II
GRM3322 Geography of Advanced Economies
UGB216E Resource Issues in the Age of Globalization
Teaching
Fields
Natural Resources Management
Natural Resources and Globalizations
Resource Evaluation
Research
Interests
Natural Resources Management
Rural Development
Resource Evaluation
Forest Use in Southeast Asia
Services/Post
Editorial Board Member of Online Journal of Earth Science
Reviewer, World Development
Reviewer, Journal of Environmental Management
Reviewer, Environmental Management
Reviewer, Forest Policy and Economics
Reviewer, Geographical Journal
Reviewer, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Member, Association of American Geographers
Member, IGU Commission for the Sustainability of Rural Systems
Member, International Society for Ecological Economics
Member, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Member, The Mountain Forum
Selected
Publications
Wong T., C.O. Delang, D. Schmidt-Vogt (2007) ¡¥Contingent visibilities: comparing conventional and local forest classification systems of Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand¡¦, Geoforum
Delang, C.O. (2006) ¡¥The Role of Wild Food Plants in Poverty Alleviation and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Countries¡¦, Progress in Development Studies 6(4)
Delang, C.O. (2006) ¡¥Indigenous systems of forest classification: Understanding land use patterns and the role of NTFPs in shifting cultivator's subsistence economies ¡¦, Environmental Management 37(4): 470-486
Delang, C.O. and T. Wong (2006) ¡¥Livelihood-based forest classification systems of the Pwo Karen in Western Thailand¡¦, Mountain Research and Development 26(2): 138-145
Delang, C.O. (2006) ¡¥Not just minor forest products: the economic rationale for the consumption of wild food plants by subsistence farmers¡¦, Ecological Economics 59: 64-73
Delang, C.O. (2005) 'Economic valuation of non-marketed wild edible plants in Thailand' Environmental Conservation 32(4): 285-287
Delang, C.O. (2005) ¡¥The Market for Medicinal Plants in Sapa and Hanoi, Vietnam¡¦, Economic Botany 59(4): 377-385
Delang, C.O. (2005) ¡¥The Political Ecology of Deforestation in Thailand, 1840s ¡V 1990s¡¦, Geography 90(3): 225-237
Delang, C.O. (Ed.) (2003) Living at the Edge of Thai Society: the Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand, London: Routledge, 256 pp.
Delang, C.O. (2002) 'Deforestation in Northern Thailand: the Result of Hmong Swidden Farming Practices or Thai Development Strategies?' Society and Natural Resources 15 (6): 483-501
Research Projects
RGC Earmarked Research Grant, "The role of NTFPs in sustainable rural development in the Lao PDR", Principal Investigator ($490,292)
Direct Grant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, "The hidden costs of curtailing shifting cultivation: reconsidering the significance of Non-Timber Forest Products", Principal Investigator (04/07- 04/08 (HK$34,200).
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