Significant Research Publications
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Politics, Economies, And Space
Green, W. N. (2022)
Financing Agrarian Change: Geographies of Credit and Debt in the Global South
Progress in Human Geography 6(3), 849-869.
Green, W. N., & Estes, J. (2022)
Translocal Precarity: Labor and Social Reproduction in Cambodia
Annals of the American Association of Geographers 112(6), 1726-1740.
Green, W. N., & Kenney-Lazar, M. (2025)
Sustainability capitalism: Investing in climate transitions
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Grundy-Warr, C. (2022)
COVID-19 Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Regional and National Health (in)Securities in Times of Pandemic.
Brunn, S.D., Gilbreath, D. (eds) COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Springer, Cham., 229-247.
Lin, S., and Grundy-Warr, C. (2020)
Navigating Sino-Thai ‘rocky’ bilateral ties: The geopolitics of riverine trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion
ECP: Politics and Space, 38 (5): 826-832.
Grundy-Warr, C. (2017)
B/ordering nature and biophysical geopolitics. A response to Hirsch
Political Geography, 58: 131-135.
Mallin, F. & Sidaway, J. D. (2023)
Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and space
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Sidaway, J. D. (2022)
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies
Dialogues in Human Geography
Paasche, T. F. & Sidaway, J. D. (2021)
Transecting Securityscapes: dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique
University of Georgia Press
Teo, S. S. K. (2023)
Socially engaged municipal statecraft in urban China? The Shenzhen Biennale as situated planning experiment
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Teo, S. S. K., Chung, C. K. L., & Wang, Z. (2023)
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies
Dialogues in Human Geography
Tschakert, Petra, Emma-Leigh Synnott, Krishna Karthikeyan, and Wildaliz De Jesús Arocho. (2026)
Embodied experiences of thermal injustice: Truth-telling through disabilities
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 116(1), 102–119
Tschakert, Petra, and Krishna Karthikeyan. (2025)
Embodied thermal insecurity and counter‐hegemonic heat mapping
Antipode, 57: 433-454.
Tschakert, P., Bourgault du Coudray, C., & Horwitz, P. (2024)
Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Haberly, Daniel, and Wójcik, Dariusz. (2022)
Sticky Power: Global Financial Networks in the World Economy
Oxford University Press
Wójcik, Dariusz, Iliopoulos, Panagiotis, Ioannou, Stefano, et al. (2024)
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
Yale University Press
Wójcik, Dariusz. (2021)
Financial geography II: The impacts of FinTech – Financial sector and centres, regulation and stability, inclusion and governance
Progress in Human Geography
Woon, C.Y. (2018)
China’s Contingencies: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Exceptionalism and the Uses of History
Geopolitics, 23(1): 67-95.
Woon, C.Y. (2020)
Framing the ‘Polar Silk Road’: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Scholars and the (Re)Positionings of China’s Arctic Interests
Political Geography, 78: 102141.
McConnell, F. and Woon, C.Y. (2023)
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions
Geopolitics, 28(2): 593-618.
Yeung, G. and Liu, Y. (2023)
Hybrid Governance of Joint Ventures in Transitional Economies: The case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China
Review of International Political Economy, 30 (3), 1177-1201.
Yeung, G. (2019)
‘Made in China 2025’: The Development of a New Energy Vehicle Industry in China
Area Development and Policy, 4(1), 39-59.
Yeung, G., He, C-f. and Zhang, P. (2017)
Rural Banking in China: Geographically Accessible but still Financially Excluded?
Regional Studies, 51(2), 297-312.
Social Cultural Geographies
Banta, V. (2023)
Unsettling Migrant Reintegration: The Serial Risk-Taking of Returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Cordillera, Philippines
Antipode, 55(1), 27–48.
Banta, V. & Pratt, G. (2022)
Immobilised by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID-19
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Online Version.
Brady, D. (2021)
Between nation and state: Boundary infrastructures, communities of practice and everyday nation-ness in the Chinese rail system
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(7), 1436–1452.
Brady, D. (2025)
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California
Progress in Human Geography
Brady, D. (2021)
The circulatory panopticon: Real names, rail infrastructure and Foucault's realist turn
Political Geography
Gillen, J., Bunnell, T., & Rigg, J. (2022)
Geographies of ruralization
Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(2), 186–203.
Bunnell, T., Aung-Thwin, M., Clendenning, J. N., Goh, D. P., & Smith, N. R. (2022)
Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(6), 1082–1099.
Yang X. and Chang, T.C. (2024)
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking
Urban Geography, 46(3), 548-567
Chang, T.C. (2022)
Van Gogh in the neighborhood: creative placemaking and community art in Singapore
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(5), 1500-1517
Ning, Y., & Chang, T.C. (2022)
Production and consumption of gentrification aesthetics in Shanghai’s M50
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(1), 184-199.
De Silva, Menusha
De Silva, M., & Gandhi, K. (2019)
“Daughter” as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field
Area, 51(4), 662-669.
De Silva, M. (2018)
Making the emotional connection: Transnational eldercare circulation within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families
Gender, Place & Culture, 25(1), 88-103.
Ho, E.L.E. (2019)
Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration and Re-migration Across China’s Borders
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Ho, E.L.E., Zhou, G., Liew, J.A., Chiu, T.Y., Huang, S., & Yeoh, B.S.A. (2021)
Webs of Care: Qualitative GIS Research on Aging, Mobility, and Care Relations in Singapore
Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111, 1462–1482.
Lin, W. (2022)
Automated infrastructure: COVID-19 and the shifting geographies of supply chain capitalism
Progress in Human Geography, 46(2), 463-483.
Lin W., Adey, P., & Harris, T. (2024)
Dispositions Towards Automation: Capital, Technology and Labour Relations in Aeromobilities
Dialogues in Human Geography
Lin, W., & Frétigny, J.-B. (2026)
The Quick Response Border: Pandemic Biopolitics, Affective Complicities and Flexible Technologies
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Ramdas, K. (2020)
Negotiating LGBTQ rights in Singapore: The margin as a place of Refusal
Urban Studies, 58(7): 1448-1462.
Huang, S. and Ramdas, K (2019)
Generative Spaces of Gender and Feminist Geography in Singapore: Entanglements of the Personal and Political
Gender, Place and Culture, 26 (7-9): 1233-1242.
Sambamurthy, N., Tan, W. E. and Bhuyan, A. (2022)
Pausing again: Reflecting on humility and possibility in pandemic times
Area 54 (3), 392-399.
Xiao, A. H. (2021)
Becoming… in Lagos: a time-narration approach to city-identification in an African metropolis
Urban Geography, 42(10), 1480-1499.
Xiao, A. H. (2022)
The congested city and situated social inequality: Making sense of urban (im) mobilities in Lagos, Nigeria
Geoforum, 136, 312-320.
Xiao, A.H., Yan, Q. (2026)
The spatiality of performative authenticity on social media: A geographical understanding of young African fashion microcelebrities
Geographical Research
Xie, L., & Den Hartog, H. (2025)
Strategic inaction and the limits of green state entrepreneurialism: Urban political ecology of China’s Flower Expo.
Urban Studies
Xie, L., Bulkeley, H., Tozer, L. (2022)
Mainstreaming sustainable innovations: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity.
Environmental Science & Policy
Yeoh, B.S.A. and Collins, F., eds. (2024)
Handbook on Transnationalism
Edward Elgar
Yeoh, B.S.A. and Lam, T. (2022)
Managing the non-integration of transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisation and enclosure in Singapore
Urban Studies
Yeoh, B.S.A., Lam, T., Somaiah, B.C. and Acedera, K.F. (2023)
The critical temporalities of serial migration and family social reproduction in Southeast Asia
Time & Society
Tropical Environmental Change
Ren, J.W.F. and Coffman, G.C. (2023)
Integrating the resilience concept into ecosystem restoration
Restor Ecol e13907.
You, C., Liu, W., Qu, H., Feng, C.-C., and Guo, L. (2025)
Nonlinear dynamics of natural and cultural ecosystem service supply and demand
NPJ Heritage Science
Kench, P.S., Ford, M.R., Owen, S.D. (2018)
Patterns of island change and persistence provide alternate opportunities for adaption in atoll nations
Nature Communications, 9, 605
Ciais, P., Zhu, Y., Cai Y. et al. (2026)
Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s
Science/AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Lu, X. X., Ran, L. S., Liu, S., Jiang, T., Zhang, S. R., & Wang, J. J. (2013)
Sediment loads response to climate change: A preliminary study of eight large Chinese rivers
International Journal of Sediment Research, 28(1), 1-14.
Luo, W., Liu, Z., Zhou, Y., Zhao, Y., Li, Y.E., Masrur, A. and Yu, M. (2022)
Investigating linkages between spatiotemporal patterns of the covid-19 delta variant and public health interventions in Southeast Asia: Prospective space-time scan statistical analysis method
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 8(8), p.e35840.
Zhao, R., Luo, X., Walker, A.P., Hoffman, F.M. & Koh, L.P. (2026)
Vegetation biogeography is a main source of uncertainty in modelling the land carbon cycle
Nature Communications
Luo, X., Zhao, R., Chu, H. et al. (2025)
Global variation in vegetation carbon use efficiency inferred from eddy covariance observations
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Luo, X., Zhou, H., Satriawan, T.W. et al. (2024)
Mapping the global distribution of C4 vegetation using observations and optimality theory
Nature Communications
Sasmito, S.D., Taillardat, P., Adinugroho, W.C. et al. (2025)
Half of land use carbon emissions in Southeast Asia can be mitigated through peat swamp forest and mangrove conservation and restoration
Nature Communications 16, 740
M Lupascu, P Taillardat, SD Sasmito et al. (2023)
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia
Global Environmental Change
Hasan Akhtar, Rahayu S Sukri, Massimo Lupascu. (2022)
Interactions between microtopography, root exudate analogues and temperature determine CO2 and CH4 production rates in fire-degraded tropical peat
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Jumadi, J., Danardono, D., Roziaty, E., Ulinuha, A., Supari, S., Choy, L. K., Sattar, F., & Nawaz, M. (2025)
AI-Driven Ensemble Learning for Spatio-Temporal Rainfall Prediction in the Bengawan Solo River Watershed, Indonesia
Sustainability, 17(20), 9281
Ahmad, M., Ali, A., Nawaz, M., Sattar, F. & Hussain, H. (2025)
National Spatial Data Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Good Governance and Policy Improvements in Pakistan
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Thompson, M., Owen, S., Lindsay, J., Cronin, S., & Leonard, G. (2017)
Scientist and stakeholder perspectives of transdisciplinary research: Early attitudes, expectations, and tensions
Environmental Science and Policy, 74: 30-39.
Penny, Gopal
Penny, G., Srinivasan, V., Dronova, I., Lele, S., & Thompson, S. (2018)
Spatial characterization of long-term hydrological change in the Arkavathy watershed adjacent to Bangalore, India
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(1), 595-610.
Raghavan, Sri
Jiang, Z, Raghavan, V.S., Hur, J., Sun, Y., Liong, S.Y., Van, P.D.T. and Nguyen, V.Q. (2019)
Future changes in rice yields over the Mekong River Delta due to climate change? Alarming or Alerting?
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137(1), 545-555.
M Roth, C Jansson, E Velasco (2017)
Multi‐year energy balance and carbon dioxide fluxes over a residential neighbourhood in a tropical city
International Journal of Climatology, 37 (5), 2679-2698.
Soriano, M. A.Jr. et al. (2021)
Assessment of groundwater well vulnerability to contamination through physics-informed machine learning
Environmental Research Letters
Soriano, M. A.Jr. et al. (2023)
Social vulnerability and groundwater vulnerability to contamination from unconventional hydrocarbon extraction in the Appalachian Basin
GeoHealth
Tang, H. and Dubayah, R., (2017)
Light-driven growth in Amazon evergreen forests explained by seasonal variations of vertical canopy structure
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(10), pp.2640-2644.
Chen, Q., & Taylor, D. (2020)
Economic development and pollution emissions in Singapore: Evidence in support of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis and its implications for regional sustainability.
Journal of Cleaner Production, 243, 118637.
Ong X, Wang YC, Sithithaworn P, Grundy-Warr C, Pitaksakulrat O. (2016)
Dam Influences on Liver Fluke Transmission: Fish Infection and Human Fish Consumption Behavior
Annals of the American Association of Geographers 106(4), 755-772.
Yan, Y., Feng, C. C., Huang, W., Fan, H., Wang, Y. C., & Zipf, A. (2020)
Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: A narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(9), 1765-1791.