Philip Hirsch

Philip Hirsch is a senior lecturer in geography at Sydney University. He has taught and researched in Thailand for more than a decade. Among his several books are Political Economy of Environment in Thailand (1993), Asia-Pacific Focus: People and Environment in Change (1991) and Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand (1990). His current research focus is community-based resource management in the context of economic restructuring in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.