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Krisna Suryanata

Krisna Suryanata, Associate Professor
Research Interests: political economy of natural resources; geography of food and agriculture; common property resource management; environmental and landscape change; development theory; technology and society; Indonesia, Third World, and Hawai`i.
Phone: (808) 956-7384
Email: krisnawa@hawaii.edu

Education

Sarjana, Soil Sciences, Bogor Institute of Agriculture, Indonesia, 1978
MA, Geography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, 1985
PhD, Geography, University of California at Berkeley, 1994

Research interests

I am interested in the critical analysis of ecological sustainability from a political economy perspective. I work with issues such as agro-food system restructuring and globalization, rural development, peasant economy, and community-based natural resource management.

My past research includes examining cases of indigenous resource management in Indonesia to understand their dynamism in contemporary political economic context. In one research in upland Java, I studied the socio-economic differentiation that resulted from tree planting and agroforestry practice, a land use change that itself was shaped by an economic boom and growing environmentalism in Indonesia. More recently, I examined the constraints and opportunities in expanding Hawaii's diversified agriculture, as global restructuring forces intersect with local socio-political movements.

My current research examines the political and cultural dimension of technologies, including changes in property institutions that accompany the deployment of offshore marine aquaculture in Hawaii; and the social and ethical implications of using spatial information technology and participatory mapping in several countries in Southeast Asia.

Research Projects

(with Karen Umemoto), National Science Foundation, 2002-2005: “Property, Culture and Technology: Marine Aquaculture Development in Hawai`i”.

(with Jefferson Fox and Peter Herschock), National Science Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 2002-2005: “Spatial Information Technology and Society: Ethics, Value, Practice”.

(with Karen Umemoto and Linda Cox), New Economy Research Grant, University of Hawai`i Foundation, 2001-2002: “Anchoring Innovation: Securing the Benefits of Mariculture in Hawai`i”.

(with Jefferson Fox), Ford Foundation Grant, 2000-2004: “Building Regional, National, and Local Capacities for Community-Based Management of Natural Resources in Asia,” a collaborative project to conduct training, applied research and publication related to community-based management of forest resources in China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Vietnam, and the United States.

Courses

GEOG 102 World Regional Geography
GEOG 312 Food, Resources and Society (WI)
GEOG 326 Environment, Resources and Society (WI/O)
GEOG 637 / PLAN 637 Theories and Concepts of Environment and Development
GEOG 639 / PLAN 639 Community-based Resource management
GEOG 752 Seminar in Resource Management
GEOG 763 / PLAN 740 Seminar in Agricultural Geography

Selected Publications

Fox, J., K. Suryanata, P. Hershock and A.H. Pramono (2006), “Mapping Power: Ironic Effects of Spatial Information Technology,” Participatory Learning and Action no. 54: 98-105 (April).

Umemoto, K. and K. Suryanata (2006), “Technology, Culture and Environmental Uncertainty: Considering Social Contracts in Adaptive Management,” Journal of Planning Education and Research 25(3):264-274 (March).

Suryanata, K. and K. Umemoto (2005), “Beyond Environmental Impact: Articulating the ‘Intangibles’ in a Resource Conflict,” Geoforum 36(6): 750-760 (November).

Fox, J., K. Suryanata, P. Hershock (eds.) (2005), Mapping Communities: Ethics, Value, Practice, Honolulu, HI: East West Center.

Suryanata, K. and K. Umemoto (2003), “Tension at the Nexus of the Local and Global: Culture, Property and Marine Aquaculture in Hawai`i,” Environment and Planning A 35(2): 199-213(February).

Suryanata, K. (2002), “Diversified Agriculture, Land Use and Agro-Food Networks in Hawai`i,” Economic Geography 78(1): 71-86 (January).

Suryanata, K. (2000), “Products from Paradise: The Social Construction of Hawai`i Crops,” Agriculture and Human Values Vol. 17(2): 181-189 (June).

Suryanata, K. (1999), “From Homegardens to Fruit Gardens: Resource Stabilization and Rural Differentiation in Upland Java,” chapter 9 (pp. 255-276) in Shifting Margins: Transforming the Indonesian Uplands. Tania Li (ed.). London: Harwood Academics.

Schroeder, R. and K. Suryanata (1996, revised 2nd edition 2004), “Gender and Class Power in Agroforestry,” in Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements. Richard Peet and Michael Watts (eds.). Routledge.

Suryanata, K. (1994), “Fruit Trees Under Contract: Tenure and Land Use Change in The Uplands of Java, Indonesia” World Development Vol. 22 (10): 1567-1578 (October).