Simon R. Bush BSc. (Hons1), PhD Name and address Name Room Telephone Fax Email Simon R. Bush 2027 +31.(0)317.483310 or 484452 +31.(0)317.483990 Simon.Bush@wur.nl Position Lecturer

• PhD in Geography (2004, University of Sydney)
• BSc majoring in Marine Ecology and Environmental Geography (1999, University of Sydney)
• Curriculum Vitae

Research profile

• Field of expertise: Environmental governance in Asia, political ecology, trade and the environment, community-based natural resource management, environmental transformations in developing and transitional economies  
• PhD research was on the politics of living aquatic resource development in the Mekong River Basin.   
• Previously worked with a number of environmental and development organisations in Southeast Asia including World Wide  Fund for Nature, WorldFish, Oxfam Australia, Oxfam America and the Mekong River Commission.  
• Current research themes include the relationship between natural resource-based trade and community based management, development of a ‘river basin citizenship’ approach to inland fisheries management, and the relationship between customary and formal environmental governance in developing countries
• ENP Research theme: Sustainable Natural Resource Use 

Publications

• Smits M. and S.R. Bush (2010) ‘A light left in the dark: the practice and politics of pico-hydropower in the Lao PDR’. Energy Policy 38:116-127
• Bush, S.R., Khiem, N. T. and Sinh, L. X. (2009) Governing Pangasius for sustainable rural livelihoods and environmental performance: a review. Aquaculture Economics and Management. 13(4): 271-293.
• Bush, S. R. (2008) Contextualising fisheries policy in the Lower Mekong Basin. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39(3): 329–353
• Bush, S. R. (2008) Social Science and Bioenergy in Southeast Asia. Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref. 2:126–132
• Bush, S. R. and Oosterveer, P. (2007) The missing link: intersecting governance and trade in the space of place and the space of flows. Sociologia Ruralis 47(4): 384-400
• Bush, S. R. and S. Kosy (2007). Geographical distribution of investment in small-scale rural fish ponds. Aquaculture Economics & Management 11(3): 285-311.
• Vo Thi Thanh Loc, Le Xuan Sinh and S.R. Bush (2007) Trans-boundary challenges for fisheries policy in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: Implications for economic growth and food security. In T.T. Be, B.T. Sinh and F. Miller, Challenges to Sustainable Development in the Mekong Delta: Regional and national Policy Issues and Research Needs, pp. 102-142. (Bangkok: The Sustainable Mekong Research Network).
• Bush, S. R. and P. Oosterveer (2007). Environment, governance and global markets. In Zijpp A.J. van der, J. A. J. Verreth, T. Le Quang, Mensvoort, M.E.F. van, R. H. Bosma and M. C. M. Beveridge, Fishponds in Farming Systems, pp. 203-210 (Wageningen: Wageningen Publishers).
• Bush, S. R., and P. Hirsch (2005) Framing Fishery Decline. Aquatic Resources, Culture and Development 1(2):79-90.
• Bush, S.R. (2004) Scales and Sales: changing social and spatial fish trading networks in the Siiphandone fishery, Lao PDR. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 25(1), 32-50.
• Complete list of publications at Wageningen University

Reserach projects

• Rebuilding resilience of coastal populations and aquatic resources (RESCOPAR). (2006-) http://www.afi.wur.nl/UK/Research/RESCOPAR/
• Pro-poor Pangasius: upgrading value-chains for improved rural livelihoods and environmental performance – in collaboration with An Giang University, Vietnam

Educational tasks

• Ocean and Coastal Governance (ENP 52806)
• Environment and Development (ENP 33306)
• Marine Environmental Quality and Governance (ENP 35806)
• European Workshop (Marine) (ENP 22203)
• Supervision of MSc and PhD theses

Other academic memberships and achievements

• Research Associate of the Australian Mekong Resource Centre at the University of Sydney (http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/)
• Sub-Editor, Maritime Studies (MAST), Ebron Publishers