About me
Associate Professor Carol Warren is Academic Chair of the Asian Studies program and a Fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre. She has a Masters degree in Sociology from the Australian National University and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Western Australia. Her teaching and research focus on social, economic and environmental change in the Asian region, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Carol has written widely on customary and environmental law, political ecology, and community development issues in the Asian region and has been chief investigator on several Australian Research Council funded projects on land tenure, sustainable development, cultural heritage and social protection policy in Indonesia. Her publications include: Adat and Dinas: Balinese Communities in the Indonesian State (Oxford University Press); The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia (Routledge, co-edited with Phil Hirsch); Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the Commonweal (Routledge, co-edited with John McCarthy); Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia (Ohio University Press, co-edited with Anton Lucas). Her ongoing research interests concern the environment, rural development, land tenure, and cultural heritage policy in the Asian region.
Postgraduate research projects supervised by Dr Warren cover a wide range of topics, including environmental impact assessment; youth and rural development in Indonesia; customary law; gender and natural resource management
Carol Warren's interest in action research and the nexus between teaching and research led to the development of field based sustainable community development projects in Indonesia funded by the Australian government's New Colombo Plan. These bring together students from the social and natural sciences to collaborate on diverse projects including coral reef rehabilitation, environmental education, local governance, livelihood vulnerability and community resilience.