Professor Jonathan Rigg
BA, PhD
Current positions
Chair in Human Geography
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
I am a geographer interested in processes of human transformation in Asia. Since the early 1980s I have worked on migration and mobility, rural-urban relations, livelihoods, coping and resilience, hazards and disasters and, more broadly, rural development. This began with work in Thailand and Laos, but has since extended to Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Preparedness and planning for the mountain hazard and risk chain in Nepal
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/01/2021 to 31/12/2023
Publications
Recent publications
01/03/2023Silent transitions
Land Use Policy
A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century
World Development
Institutional bricolage (re)shaping the different manifestations of state-citizens relations in Mekong hydropower planning
Geoforum
Selective border permeability
Political Geography
The Importance of Being Wrong
Asia in Transition