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
04/05/2026Digital Inequalities and E-Commerce Adoption in China: Polarization Patterns and Dynamics of Taobao Villages
The Professional Geographer
Evolving Pathways of Departure and Return in Rural Thailand
Population, Space and Place
Land Deactivation Amidst Land Policy Inertia In Northern Vietnam
Journal of Contemporary Asia
Making space for living and livelihoods in Vietnam: The everyday politics of peri‐urban land use
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
What Difference Does Language Make? Comparing Systematic Evidence Reviews of Vietnamese and English Language Literatures on Climate Change and the Health of Outdoor Workers
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