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YEAR
2024

department of international and strategic studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Climate Governance
Land Use Change in Southeast Asia
Global Politics of Palm Oil

RESEARCH KEYWORD
Transboundary haze, ASEAN, land use change,
palm oil, peatlands.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

associate prof. dr. Varkkey, H. (2022) Emergent geographies of
chronic air pollution governance in Southeast Asia:
HELENA MUHAMAD VARKKEY Transboundary publics in Singapore. Environmental
Policy and Governance 32(2).
helenav@um.edu.my Varkkey, H. (2021) The Forests for the Palms:
Essays on the Politics of Haze and the Environment
in Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.
EDUCATION Varkkey, H. (2016). The Haze Problem in Southeast
PhD (International Relations) Asia: Palm Oil and Patronage. Oxon: Routledge.
University of Sydney, Australia Varkkey, H., Tyson, A. & Choiruzzad, S. A. (2018).
Palm Oil Intensification and Expansion in Indonesia
MIntS (Merit) (International Studies)
University of Sydney, Australia and Malaysia: Environmental and Socio-Political
Factors Influencing Policy. Forest Policy and
BCom (Hons) (Corporate Communication) Economics 92.
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
UMEXPERT LINK
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/helenav.html University Malaya Excellence Awards 2023 -
Excellent Young Researcher (Humanities and
Social Sciences).
RESEARCHER ID Principal Investigator for an Asia Pacific Network
IZP-8781-2023 (Web of Science) Grant on “Policy and Governance Approaches to
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4622-0450 Cooperative Mitigation of Peatland Carbon and
Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia” (2022 to
2025).
SCOPUS ID Chief Editor for Akademi Sains Malaysia Local and
55557104500 Transboundary Haze Study 2018.

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