Researcher

Alin Kadfak

Institute: Department of Rural and Urban Development, SLU
Research area: Environment and climate change, Fishery, Immigration and emigration, Migration, Natural resource management
Research region: Asia-Pacific
Open to collaboration with: Media, Other researchers, Practitioners and policy makers

Professional experience

Lecturing
Supervision of Master’s students

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Publications

The capacity to adapt?: communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand

Ecology and Society
Transporting ideas between marine and social sciences: experiences from interdisciplinary research programs

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
Community-based scenario planning: a process for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning to social–ecological change in coastal communities

Environment, Development and Sustainability
The shifting sands of land governance in peri-urban Mangaluru, India: fluctuating land as an ‘informality machine’ reinforcing rapid coastal transformations

Contemporary South Asia
Intermediary Politics in a Peri-Urban Village in Mangaluru, India

Forum for Development Studies
Investigating the Waterfront: The Entangled Sociomaterial Transformations of Coastal Space in Karnataka, India

Society & Natural Resources
Private governance of human and labor rights in seafood supply chains – The case of the modern slavery crisis in Thailand

Marine Policy
An (Urban) Political Ecology approach to Small-Scale Fisheries in the Global South

Geoforum
More than Just Fishing: The Formation of Livelihood Strategies in an Urban Fishing Community in Mangaluru, India

The Journal of Development Studies
COVID-19, instability and migrant fish workers in Asia

Maritime Studies
Critical Reflexivity in Political Ecology Research: How can the Covid-19 Pandemic Transform us Into Better Researchers?

Frontiers in Human Dynamics
More than just a carding system: Labour implications of the EU’s illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing policy in Thailand

Marine Policy
Sustainable Networks: Modes of governance in the EU’s external fisheries policy relations under the IUU Regulation in Thailand and the SFPA with Senegal

Marine Policy