Douglas Hill
University of Otago
33 Papers
174 Citations
Douglas Hill is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Port (computer networking) & Emissions trading. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 32 publications. Previous affiliations of Douglas Hill include Curtin University.
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Papers
‘Rescaling’ alternative food systems: from food security to food sovereignty
Navé Wald,Douglas Hill +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits of an interdisciplinary and theoretically diverse dialogue between local food and alternative food networks (AFNs) are discussed. But, rather than treating the local and the global as ontologically given categories around which to contest the politics of food, it is argued that recognising the socio-spatial aspects of the political of scale has the potential to reinvigorate discourses of food security, food sovereignty and AFNs.
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The Multiplex in India: A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure
Adrian Athique,Douglas Hill +1 more
- 17 Dec 2009
TL;DR: The multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times in India as discussed by the authors, both a symptom and a symbol of new social values, and has become key sites in the long-running struggle over cultural legitimacy and the right to public space in Indian cities.
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Constructing walls of carbon – the complexities of community, carbon sequestration and protected areas in Uganda
Adrian Nel,Douglas Hill +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative lens of two distinct projects operating on state-led protected areas in the east of Uganda, focusing on their contested boundaries, was used to make sense of the implications for the rural communities within the project vicinities.
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Impacts of the delay in construction of a large scale hydropower project on potential displacees
TL;DR: In this article, a case study analysis of the West Seti Hydropower Project, a proposed dam in Far-Western Nepal, is presented, which highlights the impacts caused by large-scale projects trapped in a long pre-implementation phase and seeks to explain the factors that intensify the impacts on affected communities.
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Multi-track water diplomacy : current and potential future cooperation over the Brahmaputra River Basin
Yumiko Yasuda,Yumiko Yasuda,Yumiko Yasuda,Douglas Hill,Dipankar Aich,Patrick Huntjens,Ashok Swain +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed key factors affecting transboundary water cooperation in the Brahmaputra River basin at multiple scales, and the analysis of multi-track diplomacy reaffirms the potential of actor
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