- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Social Science, The University of Melbourne
Tessa Toumbourou is a postdoctoral environmental social science research fellow in the School of Agriculture, Food, and Ecosystem Sciences, at The University of Melbourne. Her research, informed by feminist political ecology, explores the links between social and environmental change, land and natural resource governance, and changing livelihood responses and strategies.
Experience
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2022–presentPostdoctoral research fellow, University of Melbourne
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2016–2022Assistant researcher, University of Melbourne
Education
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2022University of Melbourne, PhD (Human Geography)
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2012University of Melbourne, Master of Environment
Publications
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2024Identifying a shared vision for peatland restoration: adapting the Delphi method to enhance collaboration, Mires and Peat
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2024The Politics of Misalignment: NGO Livelihood Interventions and Exclusionary Land Claims in an Indonesian Oil Palm Enclave, Critical Asian Studies
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2024Principles for equitable and resilient tropical peatland restoration in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Restoration Ecology
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2023Who are the future farmers? Media representations of youth in agriculture, food security and 'modern' farming in Indonesia, Asia Pacific Viewpoint
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2022Plantations enabling mines: Incremental industrial extraction, social differentiation and livelihood change in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Land Use Policy
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2020Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape: Activism, resistance, and legal struggles over Kalimantan's coal mines, Energy Research & Social Science
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2020Sustaining livelihoods in a palm oil enclave: Differentiated gendered responses in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Asia Pacific Viewpoint
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2018Using a Delphi approach to identify the most efficacious interventions to improve Indonesia’s forest and land governance, Land Use Policy
