Melissa Marschke
Profile
Faculty of Social Sciences
Biography
Melissa Marschke is an assistant professor in the School of International Development and Globalization. She teaches courses on sustainable development, political ecology and research methods. His research concerns touch on the area of human relations with the environment, with a particular interest in resource management and environmental policy. Over the past decade, she has worked as an environmental researcher and advisor in Southeast Asia.
Research
Melissa's research interests, broadly defined, encompass: environmental governance (community-based management, adaptive co-management, certification), agrarian change and transformation, sustainability and resilience, livelihoods and making a living, small-producer, fishers and fish farmers, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam.
Type of Student Support She Seeks
She is looking for graduate students interested in pursuing research in one of the following areas:
- fishing, fish-farming, and poverty alleviation in Southeast Asia;
- resource governance (co-management, certification, credits), focusing on Canada and abroad;
- climate change, resilience and the urban environment in the Mekong Region;
- agrarian change and making a livelihood.