Louis Lebel

Dr Louis Lebel is an SEI Affiliated Researcher with SEI Asia. He is the current and founding director of the Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Dr Lebel is an editor of Global Environmental Change and a subject editor for Ecology and Society and WIREs Climate Change.

His interests include: global environmental change, livelihoods, public health, development studies, aquaculture, consumption and water governance. He has led several multi-centre comparative studies and contributed significantly to several research networks in the Southeast Asia region including the Mekong Program on Water, Environment and Resilience (M-POWER) and the Sustainable Mekong Region Network (SUMERNET).

Dr Lebel has been at Chiang Mai University since 1999 and began working in Thailand since 1991. For further details, visit www.sea-user.org

Publications authored externally to SEI

• Lebel, L., Wattana, S. and Talerngsri, P. 2015. Assessments of ecosystem services and human well-being in Thailand build and create demand for coproductive capacity. Ecology and Society, 20 (1). http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss21/art12/ES-2014-6527.pdf
• Dany, V., Bajracharya, B., Lebel, L., Regan, M. and Taplin, R. 2015. Narrowing gaps between research and policy development in climate change adaptation work in the water resources and agriculture sectors of Cambodia. Climate Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2014.1003523
• Lebel, L., Lebel, P., Chitmanat, C. and Sriyasak, P. 2014. Benefit sharing from hydropower watersheds: Rationales, practices, and potential. Water Resources and Rural Development, 4, 12–e28.
• Lebel, L., Nikitina, E., Pahl-Wostl, C. and Knieperm, C. 2013. Institutional fit and river basin governance: A new approach using multiple composite measures. Ecology & Society, 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05097-180101
• Lebel, L., Sinh, B. T., Chinh, N., Boontaveeyuwat, S. and Kimkong, H. 2013. Risk communication and adaptation planning in deltas and coastal settlements of the Mekong Region. Pages 253-269 in S. Moser and M. Boykoff, editors. Successful adaptation to climate change: linking science and policy in a rapidly changing world. Routledge, New York.
• Lebel, L. 2013. Local knowledge and adaptation to climate change in natural resource-based societies of the Asia-Pacific. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 18:1057–1076.