Additional Information

I formerly worked on agricultural futures, rural development, 'desertification' and soil and water conservation in the West African Sahel.

I have worked collaboratively and across disciplines for 30 years, latterly with a fantastic PhD group, that has had 18 PhD and 51 Masters and Honours graduates.

As a commitment to Open Access publishing, I have co-edited the flagship Journal of Political Ecology since 2003 (http://jpe.library.arizona.edu - free to authors and readers) and I curate a listing of reputable OA journals that are free or affordable in geography, anthropology, planning, environmental studies and the social sciences.

Career Details

I studied human and environmental geography (BA Hons. Reading University, 1985; MA and PhD Clark University USA, 1990/1997). I have lectured in human geography and development studies, at Brunel University (1993-1999), the LSE (1999-2001), the University of Arizona (2001-2004), and most recently Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne (2004-2016, 2019->), with fellowships at Colorado, Roskilde, Oxford (ECI) and VUB (Cosmopolis).

Web Links

Further information and cv is available at http://www.simonbatterbury.net, publications in English and French since 1993 are linked here, and general ruminations are at http://simonbatterbury.wordpress.com. I'm on Researchgate and Academia.