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'''Simon Batterbury''' (born 1963) is a British-Australian [[geographer]], Professor of Environmental Studies at the [[University of Melbourne]],<ref>https://sgeas.unimelb.edu.au/about/people/academic-staff</ref> Australia and a visiting professor at [[Lancaster University]], UK.
'''Simon Batterbury''' (born 1963) is a British-Australian [[geographer]], Professor of Environmental Studies at the [[University of Melbourne]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sgeas.unimelb.edu.au/about/people/academic-staff | title=Academic staff | date=2 January 2024 }}</ref> Australia and a visiting professor at [[Lancaster University]], UK.


==Background==
==Background==
Born in [[Greenwich]] and raised in [[Eltham]], south east London, he attended [[Eltham College]], [[Reading University]] (Human and Physical Geography, 1985) and [[Clark University]] (MA 1990, PhD 1997).<ref>https://simonbatterbury.net/</ref> He worked at [https://www.pma.co.uk/home/ Property Market analysis] in the 1980s doing real estate/property research, before further study and academic appointments at [[Brunel University]] (1993–1999), the [[London School of Economics]] (1999–2001), the [[University of Arizona]] (2001–2004) and the University of Melbourne (2004–2016, 2019–date).<ref>https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28896-simon-batterbury</ref> From 2017 to 2019 he was the inaugural Professor and Chair of Political Ecology in the [[Lancaster Environment Centre]], [[Lancaster University]], and has remained affiliated there since 2019.<ref>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people-profiles/simon-batterbury</ref>
Born in [[Greenwich]] and raised in [[Eltham]], south east London, he attended [[Eltham College]], [[Reading University]] (Human and Physical Geography, 1985) and [[Clark University]] (MA 1990, PhD 1997).<ref>https://simonbatterbury.net/</ref> He worked at [https://www.pma.co.uk/home/ Property Market analysis] in the 1980s doing real estate/property research, before further study and academic appointments at [[Brunel University]] (1993–1999), the [[London School of Economics]] (1999–2001), the [[University of Arizona]] (2001–2004) and the University of Melbourne (2004–2016, 2019–date).<ref>https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28896-simon-batterbury</ref> From 2017 to 2019 he was the inaugural Professor and Chair of Political Ecology in the [[Lancaster Environment Centre]], [[Lancaster University]], and has remained affiliated there since 2019.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people-profiles/simon-batterbury | title=Simon Batterbury }}</ref>


At the University of Melbourne, he directed the Office for Environmental Programs<ref>https://environment.unimelb.edu.au/</ref> and the unique interdisciplinary Master of Environment degree with 370 students<ref>Batterbury S.P.J. and M. Toscano. 2018. [https://revistas.uam.es/riejs/article/view/9583 Seeking justice through interdisciplinary environmental education at postgraduate level: lessons from Melbourne, Australia]. ''International Journal of Education for Social Justice'' / ''Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social'' (RIEJS) 7(1): 141-156. </ref>, and from 2024, the Melbourne Climate Futures Academy for PhD students and early career researchers.<ref>https://www.unimelb.edu.au/climate/collaboration/mcf-academy</ref>
At the University of Melbourne, he directed the Office for Environmental Programs<ref>https://environment.unimelb.edu.au/</ref> and the unique interdisciplinary Master of Environment degree with 370 students<ref>Batterbury S.P.J. and M. Toscano. 2018. [https://revistas.uam.es/riejs/article/view/9583 Seeking justice through interdisciplinary environmental education at postgraduate level: lessons from Melbourne, Australia]. ''International Journal of Education for Social Justice'' / ''Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social'' (RIEJS) 7(1): 141-156. </ref>, and from 2024, the Melbourne Climate Futures Academy for PhD students and early career researchers.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.unimelb.edu.au/climate/collaboration/mcf-academy | title=MCF Academy | date=30 January 2024 }}</ref>


==Contributions==
==Contributions==
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Batterbury<ref>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2801-7483</ref> conducted applied and research programs in the francophone drylands of West Africa (1992–2001), working in Burkina Faso on soil conservation and rural development, and latterly in a large interdisciplinary investigation of land use change and livelihoods in South West Niger funded by the UK-based [[Economic and Social Research Council|ESRC]]. The work showed the adaptability of peasant farmers to drought, poverty, and gender inequality in access to resources through 'productive ''bricolage''' and diversification of livelihoods.<ref>Batterbury, S.P.J. 2001. Landscapes of diversity: a local political ecology of livelihood diversification in south-western Niger. Cultural Geographies 8(4): 437-464</ref> Empirical studies of [[desertification]] in the [[Sahel]] found strong local adaptability to uncertain rainfall<ref>Reynolds J.F., D.M. Stafford-Smith, E. Lambin, B.L. Turner II, M.J/ Mortimore, S.P.J Batterbury, T.E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R.J. Fernandez, J.E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannwald, H. Jiang, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. Maestre, B. Walker, and M. Ayarza. 2007. Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. ''Science''. 316 (May 11): 847-851</ref>, with little use of Western agricultural inputs or seed varieties.<ref>Batterbury, S.P.J. 1996. Planners or performers? Reflections on indigenous dryland farming in Northern Burkina Faso. ''Agriculture & Human Values'' 13(3):12-22 </ref>
Batterbury<ref>{{cite web | url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2801-7483 | title=ORCID }}</ref> conducted applied and research programs in the francophone drylands of West Africa (1992–2001), working in Burkina Faso on soil conservation and rural development, and latterly in a large interdisciplinary investigation of land use change and livelihoods in South West Niger funded by the UK-based [[Economic and Social Research Council|ESRC]]. The work showed the adaptability of peasant farmers to drought, poverty, and gender inequality in access to resources through 'productive ''bricolage''' and diversification of livelihoods.<ref>Batterbury, S.P.J. 2001. Landscapes of diversity: a local political ecology of livelihood diversification in south-western Niger. Cultural Geographies 8(4): 437-464</ref> Empirical studies of [[desertification]] in the [[Sahel]] found strong local adaptability to uncertain rainfall<ref>Reynolds J.F., D.M. Stafford-Smith, E. Lambin, B.L. Turner II, M.J/ Mortimore, S.P.J Batterbury, T.E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R.J. Fernandez, J.E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannwald, H. Jiang, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. Maestre, B. Walker, and M. Ayarza. 2007. Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. ''Science''. 316 (May 11): 847-851</ref>, with little use of Western agricultural inputs or seed varieties.<ref>Batterbury, S.P.J. 1996. Planners or performers? Reflections on indigenous dryland farming in Northern Burkina Faso. ''Agriculture & Human Values'' 13(3):12-22 </ref>


Batterbury was an early adopter of [[political ecology]] as a research approach, showing how local environmental changes resulted more from the national and international political economy than crises of farmer knowledge and resources. He has co-edited the ''[[Journal of Political Ecology]]'' since 2003.<ref>https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/</ref>
Batterbury was an early adopter of [[political ecology]] as a research approach, showing how local environmental changes resulted more from the national and international political economy than crises of farmer knowledge and resources. He has co-edited the ''[[Journal of Political Ecology]]'' since 2003.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ | title=Journal of Political Ecology }}</ref>


This work led to strong support for Diamond Open Access non-commercial scholarly publishing including an ''Open Access Manifesto''.<ref>Batterbury SPJ. 2020. Open but unfair- the role of social justice in Open Access publishing. ''LSE Impact of the Social Sciences''. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/10/24/publishing-articles-concerned-with-social-justice-issues-in-unjust-journal-outlets-seems-wrong-open-access-qa-with-simon-batterbury/</ref><ref>Batterbury SPJ, A. E. Pia, G. Wielander & N. Loubere. 2024. Against Book Enclosures: moving towards more diverse, humane, and accessible book publishing. ''Area''. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12916</ref><ref>Pia, A.E., S.P.J. Batterbury, A. Joniak-Lüthi, M. LaFlamme, G. Wielander, F.M. Zerilli, M. Nolas, J. Schubert, N. Loubere, I. Franceschini, C. Walsh, A. Mora and C. Varvantakis. 2020. Labour of Love: an Open Access Manifesto for freedom, integrity, and creativity in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. ''The Commonplace'' https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.a7503356</ref>
This work led to strong support for Diamond Open Access non-commercial scholarly publishing including an ''Open Access Manifesto''.<ref>Batterbury SPJ. 2020. Open but unfair- the role of social justice in Open Access publishing. ''LSE Impact of the Social Sciences''. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/10/24/publishing-articles-concerned-with-social-justice-issues-in-unjust-journal-outlets-seems-wrong-open-access-qa-with-simon-batterbury/</ref><ref>Batterbury SPJ, A. E. Pia, G. Wielander & N. Loubere. 2024. Against Book Enclosures: moving towards more diverse, humane, and accessible book publishing. ''Area''. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12916</ref><ref>Pia, A.E., S.P.J. Batterbury, A. Joniak-Lüthi, M. LaFlamme, G. Wielander, F.M. Zerilli, M. Nolas, J. Schubert, N. Loubere, I. Franceschini, C. Walsh, A. Mora and C. Varvantakis. 2020. Labour of Love: an Open Access Manifesto for freedom, integrity, and creativity in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. ''The Commonplace'' https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.a7503356</ref>


Since 2010 he has worked in the disputed settler economy of [[New Caledonia]]-Kanaky on the political ecology of mining and other issues for Indigenous [[Kanak]] societies and cultures, producing a major volume in English in 2024.<ref>https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Geographies_of_New_Caledonia_Kanaky.html?id=9IU-0AEACAAJ&redir_esc=y</ref> Indigenous people have reluctantly embraced mining on their territories, but use it to to their geopolitical advantage including control of one major nickel project, the [[Koniambo mine]].<ref>Batterbury SPJ, M. Kowasch and S. Bouard. 2020. The geopolitical ecology of New Caledonia: territorial re-ordering, mining, and Indigenous economic development. ''Journal of Political Ecology'' 27: 594-611. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23812</ref> The [[Critical Raw Materials Act]] in Europe has a peripheral influence on mining on the islands and poses new challenges for raw material supply for the [[European Green Deal]]<ref>https://miningbeyondhotair.org/</ref>
Since 2010 he has worked in the disputed settler economy of [[New Caledonia]]-Kanaky on the political ecology of mining and other issues for Indigenous [[Kanak]] societies and cultures, producing a major volume in English in 2024.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IU-0AEACAAJ | title=Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics and Cultures | isbn=978-3-031-49142-9 | last1=Kowasch | first1=Matthias | last2=Batterbury | first2=Simon P. J. | date=26 February 2024 | publisher=Springer }}</ref> Indigenous people have reluctantly embraced mining on their territories, but use it to to their geopolitical advantage including control of one major nickel project, the [[Koniambo mine]].<ref>Batterbury SPJ, M. Kowasch and S. Bouard. 2020. The geopolitical ecology of New Caledonia: territorial re-ordering, mining, and Indigenous economic development. ''Journal of Political Ecology'' 27: 594-611. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23812</ref> The [[Critical Raw Materials Act]] in Europe has a peripheral influence on mining on the islands and poses new challenges for raw material supply for the [[European Green Deal]]<ref>https://miningbeyondhotair.org/</ref>


Research on[[Bicycle cooperative | Community Bike Workshops]] and their contributions of low carbon mobility, social justice, and [[active travel]] is an emerging area (funded by the British Academy, 2024).<ref>Batterbury SPJ, Uxo, C., Nurse, S. & M. Abord de Chatillon. 2023. On Mutual Bicycle Aid: Community bike workshops in Australia. ''Green Agenda Journal'' 1. 25th March, 2023. https://greenagenda.org.au/2023/03/on-mutual-bicycle-aid/</ref> Batterbury chairs a small workshop that gives away more than 250 rebuilt and repaired bikes a year to refugees and asylum seekers in Melbourne (WeCycle), featured on national TV.<ref>https://www.houseofwellness.com.au/show/house-of-wellness-tv-2023-season-7-episode-19</ref>
Research on[[Bicycle cooperative | Community Bike Workshops]] and their contributions of low carbon mobility, social justice, and [[active travel]] is an emerging area (funded by the British Academy, 2024).<ref>Batterbury SPJ, Uxo, C., Nurse, S. & M. Abord de Chatillon. 2023. On Mutual Bicycle Aid: Community bike workshops in Australia. ''Green Agenda Journal'' 1. 25th March, 2023. https://greenagenda.org.au/2023/03/on-mutual-bicycle-aid/</ref> Batterbury chairs a small workshop that gives away more than 250 rebuilt and repaired bikes a year to refugees and asylum seekers in Melbourne (WeCycle), featured on national TV.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.houseofwellness.com.au/show/house-of-wellness-tv-2023-season-7-episode-19 | title=The House of Wellness TV 2023 - Season 7, Episode 19 | date=23 June 2023 }}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
*British Academy fellowship, 2024<ref>https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/dr-simon-batterbury/</ref>
*British Academy fellowship, 2024<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/dr-simon-batterbury/ | title=Dr Simon Batterbury }}</ref>
*Best PhD/Graduate supervisor, University of Melbourne, 2019<ref>https://science.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/faculty-of-science-staff-celebrated-with-2019-melbourne-excellence-awards</ref>*COSMOPOLIS fellow, [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]], 2015
*Best PhD/Graduate supervisor, University of Melbourne, 2019<ref>{{cite web | url=https://science.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/faculty-of-science-staff-celebrated-with-2019-melbourne-excellence-awards | title=Faculty of Science staff celebrated with 2019 Melbourne Excellence Awards | date=2 February 2024 }}</ref>*COSMOPOLIS fellow, [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]], 2015
*James Martin Fellow, ECI, [[University of Oxford]], 2007
*James Martin Fellow, ECI, [[University of Oxford]], 2007


Revision as of 19:26, 8 March 2024

Simon Batterbury
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Greenwich, South East London, England
NationalityBritish-Australian
EducationEltham College; Reading University (BSc, Human and Physical Geography, 1985); Clark University (MA, 1990; PhD, 1997)
Occupation(s)Geographer, Academic
Years active1993–present
Employer(s)University of Melbourne, Australia; Lancaster University, UK
Known forResearch in political ecology, environmental studies, Indigenous peoples and mining, dryland livelihoods in Africa
TitleProfessor of Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne; Visiting Professor at Lancaster University
AwardsBritish Academy Fellowship, 2024; James Martin Fellow, University of Oxford, 2007
Websitehttp://simonbatterbury.net


Simon Batterbury (born 1963) is a British-Australian geographer, Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne,[1] Australia and a visiting professor at Lancaster University, UK.

Background

Born in Greenwich and raised in Eltham, south east London, he attended Eltham College, Reading University (Human and Physical Geography, 1985) and Clark University (MA 1990, PhD 1997).[2] He worked at Property Market analysis in the 1980s doing real estate/property research, before further study and academic appointments at Brunel University (1993–1999), the London School of Economics (1999–2001), the University of Arizona (2001–2004) and the University of Melbourne (2004–2016, 2019–date).[3] From 2017 to 2019 he was the inaugural Professor and Chair of Political Ecology in the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, and has remained affiliated there since 2019.[4]

At the University of Melbourne, he directed the Office for Environmental Programs[5] and the unique interdisciplinary Master of Environment degree with 370 students[6], and from 2024, the Melbourne Climate Futures Academy for PhD students and early career researchers.[7]

Contributions

Batterbury[8] conducted applied and research programs in the francophone drylands of West Africa (1992–2001), working in Burkina Faso on soil conservation and rural development, and latterly in a large interdisciplinary investigation of land use change and livelihoods in South West Niger funded by the UK-based ESRC. The work showed the adaptability of peasant farmers to drought, poverty, and gender inequality in access to resources through 'productive bricolage' and diversification of livelihoods.[9] Empirical studies of desertification in the Sahel found strong local adaptability to uncertain rainfall[10], with little use of Western agricultural inputs or seed varieties.[11]

Batterbury was an early adopter of political ecology as a research approach, showing how local environmental changes resulted more from the national and international political economy than crises of farmer knowledge and resources. He has co-edited the Journal of Political Ecology since 2003.[12]

This work led to strong support for Diamond Open Access non-commercial scholarly publishing including an Open Access Manifesto.[13][14][15]

Since 2010 he has worked in the disputed settler economy of New Caledonia-Kanaky on the political ecology of mining and other issues for Indigenous Kanak societies and cultures, producing a major volume in English in 2024.[16] Indigenous people have reluctantly embraced mining on their territories, but use it to to their geopolitical advantage including control of one major nickel project, the Koniambo mine.[17] The Critical Raw Materials Act in Europe has a peripheral influence on mining on the islands and poses new challenges for raw material supply for the European Green Deal[18]

Research on Community Bike Workshops and their contributions of low carbon mobility, social justice, and active travel is an emerging area (funded by the British Academy, 2024).[19] Batterbury chairs a small workshop that gives away more than 250 rebuilt and repaired bikes a year to refugees and asylum seekers in Melbourne (WeCycle), featured on national TV.[20]

Awards

Selected Publications

  • Kowasch M. and Batterbury, S.P.J. (eds.). 2024. Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: environments, politics and cultures. Springer. (19 chapters) http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49140
  • Batterbury S.P.J. and I. Vandermeersch. 2016. Bicycle justice: community bicycle workshops and "invisible cyclists" in Brussels. In A. Golub, M.L. Hoffmann, A.E.Lugo & G.F. Sandoval (eds.). Bicycle justice and urban transformation: biking for all? Routledge. 189-202.
  • Reynolds J.F., D.M. Stafford-Smith, E. Lambin, B.L. Turner II, M.J Mortimore, S.P.J Batterbury, T.E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R.J. Fernandez, J.E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannwald, H. Jiang, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. Maestre, B. Walker, and M. Ayarza. 2007. Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. Science. 316 (May 11): 847-851
  • Batterbury, S.P.J. (ed.) 2006. Rescaling governance and the impacts of political and environmental decentralization. World Development 34(11): 1851-1995. (8 articles)
  • Batterbury, S.P.J & A. Warren (eds.) 2001. The African Sahel 25 years after the Great Drought. Global Environmental Change 11(1): 1-96. (8 articles).

References

  1. ^ "Academic staff". 2 January 2024.
  2. ^ https://simonbatterbury.net/
  3. ^ https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28896-simon-batterbury
  4. ^ "Simon Batterbury".
  5. ^ https://environment.unimelb.edu.au/
  6. ^ Batterbury S.P.J. and M. Toscano. 2018. Seeking justice through interdisciplinary environmental education at postgraduate level: lessons from Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Education for Social Justice / Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social (RIEJS) 7(1): 141-156.
  7. ^ "MCF Academy". 30 January 2024.
  8. ^ "ORCID".
  9. ^ Batterbury, S.P.J. 2001. Landscapes of diversity: a local political ecology of livelihood diversification in south-western Niger. Cultural Geographies 8(4): 437-464
  10. ^ Reynolds J.F., D.M. Stafford-Smith, E. Lambin, B.L. Turner II, M.J/ Mortimore, S.P.J Batterbury, T.E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R.J. Fernandez, J.E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannwald, H. Jiang, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. Maestre, B. Walker, and M. Ayarza. 2007. Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. Science. 316 (May 11): 847-851
  11. ^ Batterbury, S.P.J. 1996. Planners or performers? Reflections on indigenous dryland farming in Northern Burkina Faso. Agriculture & Human Values 13(3):12-22
  12. ^ "Journal of Political Ecology".
  13. ^ Batterbury SPJ. 2020. Open but unfair- the role of social justice in Open Access publishing. LSE Impact of the Social Sciences. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/10/24/publishing-articles-concerned-with-social-justice-issues-in-unjust-journal-outlets-seems-wrong-open-access-qa-with-simon-batterbury/
  14. ^ Batterbury SPJ, A. E. Pia, G. Wielander & N. Loubere. 2024. Against Book Enclosures: moving towards more diverse, humane, and accessible book publishing. Area. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12916
  15. ^ Pia, A.E., S.P.J. Batterbury, A. Joniak-Lüthi, M. LaFlamme, G. Wielander, F.M. Zerilli, M. Nolas, J. Schubert, N. Loubere, I. Franceschini, C. Walsh, A. Mora and C. Varvantakis. 2020. Labour of Love: an Open Access Manifesto for freedom, integrity, and creativity in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The Commonplace https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.a7503356
  16. ^ Kowasch, Matthias; Batterbury, Simon P. J. (26 February 2024). Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics and Cultures. Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-49142-9.
  17. ^ Batterbury SPJ, M. Kowasch and S. Bouard. 2020. The geopolitical ecology of New Caledonia: territorial re-ordering, mining, and Indigenous economic development. Journal of Political Ecology 27: 594-611. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23812
  18. ^ https://miningbeyondhotair.org/
  19. ^ Batterbury SPJ, Uxo, C., Nurse, S. & M. Abord de Chatillon. 2023. On Mutual Bicycle Aid: Community bike workshops in Australia. Green Agenda Journal 1. 25th March, 2023. https://greenagenda.org.au/2023/03/on-mutual-bicycle-aid/
  20. ^ "The House of Wellness TV 2023 - Season 7, Episode 19". 23 June 2023.
  21. ^ "Dr Simon Batterbury".
  22. ^ "Faculty of Science staff celebrated with 2019 Melbourne Excellence Awards". 2 February 2024.
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