Dr John McCarthy

PhD

John McCarthy studied environmental science, social theory and anthropology in the universities of Melbourne and Monash before completing a PhD at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. He subsequently held fellowships at the Asia Research Centre and at the Van Vollenhoven Insitute (Leiden University). He has carried out various assignments with non-government organisations in Australia and Indonesia, AusAID, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), WorldFish and the World Bank. His most recent publication is The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Senior Lecturer, Environmental Management and Development Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Email: John.McCarthy@anu.edu.au