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        May Thazin Aung

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      May Thazin Aung is a Research Fellow with SEI Asia working on policy analysis and stakeholder engagement. May works closely with government agencies and civil society in Southeast Asia to promote evidence-based decision-making and multi-stakeholder participation.

      May’s work focuses on understanding how political, regulatory and institutional structures in natural resource governance influence the use and control of resources by different actors and social groups. For example, May analyses the political economy of fossil fuels to understand social and political factors of fossil fuel dependency in Indonesia and around the globe. May is also assessing how the bioeconomy can help Thailand meet its sustainability and social equality goals. In Myanmar, May has used action research and stakeholder engagement to help SEI and Myanmar partners in establishing the Chindwin River Basin Organization towards promoting evidence-based decision-making and public participation for enhanced water resource governance.

      Away from research and policy engagement, May is also interested in using innovative science-communications tools at the science-policy interface, and has published several photo-stories , discussion briefs and short-films.

      Prior to joining SEI, May supported Myanmar policy-makers to develop environmental protocols to improve natural resource governance. May graduated from Vermont Law School with a M.A. in Environmental Law and Policy.

       

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      Meet May, a researcher who joined SEI in 2015. Here she shares the importance of building local connections, and how colleagues have influenced her work.

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      Publications by May Thazin Aung

      • Conserving biodiversity in Myanmar’s Upper Chindwin Basin: Community-based integrated catchment management
      • Intersectionality and energy transitions: a review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy
      • Low-carbon transitions in West Sumatra, Indonesia: gender and equity dimensions
      • Power and influence in the development of Thailand’s bioeconomy
      • Distributional impacts of mining transitions: learning from the past
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      Perspectives by May Thazin Aung

      • A just transition to renewables must recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples

      Featured stories with May Thazin Aung

      • Microplastics: from ocean to table
      • A just transition
      • How gender affects all aspects of sustainable development
      • Sustainable production meets sustainable consumption
      • What drives human behaviour when it comes to development solutions?
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      Projects and tools with May Thazin Aung

      • LANDMARC
      • Aid Atlas
      • SEI Initiative on Governing Bioeconomy Pathways
      • SEI Initiative on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
      • SEI Initiative on Producer to Consumer Sustainability
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