W. Nathan Green

W. Nathan Green is a second year MA student in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and will continue onto the PhD program in Geography at the UW-Madison in Fall 2014. He holds BA degrees in Geography and the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington. Nathan first became interested in environmental and development issues in Southeast Asia while volunteering with the Peace Corps in southern Cambodia. His MA research explores how hydropower-induced resettlement in southern Laos is fundamentally transforming nature-society relations. For his doctoral research, Nathan will conduct an ethnographic study that will explore how the interrelated effects of dams and plantations impact land dispossession and environmental change in northeastern Cambodia. This summer he will build relationships within hydropower activist and professional communities in the capital city of Phnom Penh. In Ratanakiri Province, he will collaborate with the 3S Rivers Protection Network to interview villagers and local authorities about the Lower Sesan 2 hydropower project to be built at the confluence of two major tributaries of the Mekong.