Dr Rini Astuti
Research interests
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Political ecology of environmental and resource governance
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Climate change mitigation and adaptation
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Forest and land politics in Southeast Asia
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Peatland fires and governance in Indonesia
Biography
Rini Astuti has conducted research on contemporary environmental challenges facing Southeast Asia. Her research focuses on resource governance in Indonesia, including on climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Rini’s current research is on haze-producing biomass fires and an emerging framework for peatland and forest governance in Indonesia.
Rini’s research draws from a political ecology perspective that problematized the implications of neoliberal environmental governance for different actors across multiple scales in Indonesia, including local and indigenous communities.
Rini has published articles relating to forest governance, climate change mitigation and land politics in numerous journals. She has also published opinion editorials and commentaries on broader environmental issues through numerous publication outlets.
Researcher's projects
In 2021 Rini is involved in the following collaborative research projects:
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“Asia Pacific ClimateScapes: exploring opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs toward just transitions for decarbonization” (funded by the British Academy)
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“Mapping the Political Ecology of the Edible Birds’ Nests Trade in Indonesia” (funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Project)
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“Sustainable Governance of the Transboundary Environmental Commons in Southeast Asia” (funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education’s Social Science Research Council)
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“Enhancing the participation of marginalized women of customary community in Indonesia’s Social Forestry Program” (funded by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research)
Publications
- Astuti, R, Miller, M, McGregor, A et al. 2022, 'Making illegality visible: The governance dilemmas created by visualising illegal palm oil plantations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia', Land Use Policy, vol. 114.
- Miller, M, Astuti, R, Hirsch, P et al. 2022, 'Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19', Political Geography, vol. 97.
- Astuti, R 2021, 'Governing the ungovernable: the politics of disciplining pulpwood and palm oil plantations in Indonesia’s tropical peatland', Geoforum, vol. 124, no. 1, pp. 381-391.
- Miller, M, alfajri, a, Astuti, R et al. 2021, 'Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance', Ecology and Society, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1-15.
- Astuti, R 2020, 'Fixing flammable forest: The scalar politics of peatland governance and restoration in Indonesia', Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 1-18.
- McGregor, A, Challies, E, Thomas, A et al. 2019, 'Sociocarbon cycles: Assembling and governing forest carbon in Indonesia', Geoforum, vol. 99, pp. 32-41.
- Astuti, R & McGregor, A 2017, 'Indigenous land claims or green grabs? Inclusions and exclusions within forest carbon politics in Indonesia', The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 446-465.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Inclusive Climate Adaptation: The Roles of Womens Climate Advocacy Network (Primary Investigator)
- Energy transition and global power shifts: Socio-ecological challenges and opportunities in Indonesias nickel commodity chains (Primary Investigator)
- Just transitions to decarbonisation: exploring opportunities, challenges and trade-offs for the Asia Pacific (Secondary Investigator)
