By Associate Professor Paul George Munro

Books

Munro P, 2020, Colonial Seeds in African Soil A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone, Berghahn Books, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unsw/detail.action?docID=6032706

Book Chapters

Munro P, 2023, 'Energy justice, modernity and transitions: more-than-modern energy for all in the Global South', in Bouzarovski S; Fuller S; Reames T (ed.), Handbook on Energy Justice, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 213 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839102967.00022

Munro P; Jacome V; Samarakoon S, 2022, 'Off-Grid Enterprise: A Critical History of Small-Scale Off-Grid Solar in Sub-Saharan Africa', in Ojong N (ed.), Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa: A Critical Perspective, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, pp. 25 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13825-6_2

Munro P, 2021, 'Colonial Wildlife Conservation and National Parks in Sub-Saharan Africa', in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, University of Oxford, Oxford, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.195

Jenkins K; Samarakoon S; Munro P, 2019, 'Energy economics as an energy justice dilemma: Case studies of normative trade-offs in Malawi, Mexico and Germany', in Soytaş U; Sarı R (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, Routledge, London, pp. 317 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315459653

Munro PG; van der Horst G, 2015, 'Breaks with the Past: Conflict, Displacement, Resettlement and the Evolution of Forest Socio-Ecologies in Sierra Leone', in Lahai JL; Lyons T (ed.), African Frontiers Insurgency, Governance and Peacebuilding in Postcolonial States, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp. 119 - 130

Journal articles

Munro PG, 2024, 'The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania. Michael Degani. Duke University Press, Durham, USA and London, UK, 2022, pp. xii + 254. ISBN 978‐1‐478‐01914‐5 (pbk).', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12567

Munro PG; Samarakoon S; Kearnes M; Paisley C, 2023, 'The right to repairable energy: A political ecology off-grid solar repair in Zambia', Political Geography, 106, pp. 102962, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102962

Agwor A; Melo Zurita M; Munro P, 2023, 'Underground Urbanism in Africa: splintered subterranean space in Lagos, Nigeria', Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies, pp. 004209802311749, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00420980231174996

Munro PG, 2023, 'Malebogo Mvimi, Past Environments and Plant Use in Holocene Southern Africa: A Study of Charcoal and Seed Remains from the Late Stone Age Sites of Toteng (Botswana), Leopard Cave and Geduld (Namibia). Oxford: BAR Publishing (pb £50 – 978 1 407 35717 1). 2022, 214 pp.', Africa, 93, pp. 435 - 436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972023000426

Munro PG; Samarakoon S; Hansen UE; Kearnes M; Bruce A; Cross J; Walker S; Zalengera C, 2022, 'Towards a repair research agenda for off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South', Nature Energy, 8, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01103-9

Munro P; Samarakoon S, 2022, 'Off-Grid Electrical Urbanism: Emerging Solar Energy Geographies in Ordinary Cities', Journal of Urban Technology, 30, pp. 127 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2022.2068939

Manwaring K; Kearnes M; Morgan B; Munro P; Pala R; Samarakoon S, 2022, 'What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology?', Alternative Law Journal, 47, pp. 179 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X221108557

Paudel G; Carr J; Munro PG, 2022, 'Community forestry in Nepal: a critical review', International Forestry Review, 24, pp. 43 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1505/146554822835224810

Samarakoon S; Munro P; Zalengera C; Kearnes M, 2022, 'The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42, pp. 317 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.01.009

To LS; Bruce A; Munro P; Santagata E; MacGill I; Rawali M; Raturi A, 2021, 'A research and innovation agenda for energy resilience in Pacific Island Countries and Territories', Nature Energy, 6, pp. 1098 - 1103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00935-1

Munro P, 2021, 'Energy political ecologies in the South Pacific: the politics of energy transitions in Vanuatu', Cambridge Journal Of Regions, Economy And Society, 14, pp. 361 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsab006

Hawken S; Avazpour B; Harris M; Marzban A; Munro PG, 2021, 'Urban megaprojects and water justice in Southeast Asia: Between global economies and community transitions', Cities, 113, pp. 103068 - 103068, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.103068

Samarakoon S; Bartlett A; Munro P, 2021, 'Somewhat original: energy ethics in Malawi’s off-grid solar market', Environmental Sociology, 7, pp. 164 - 175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2021.1893428

Munro PG; Samarakoon S; van der Horst GA, 2020, 'African energy poverty: A moving target', Environmental Research Letters, 15, pp. 104059, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abaf1a

Munro P, 2020, 'On, off, below and beyond the urban electrical grid the energy bricoleurs of Gulu Town', Urban Geography, 41, pp. 428 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1698867

Macpherson-Rice B; Munro PG; de Rijke K, 2020, 'Energy solution or future pollution? Applying an energy justice perspective to coal seam gas in New South Wales', Australian Geographer, 51, pp. 69 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2019.1690771

Munro PG; Bartlett A, 2019, 'Energy bricolage in Northern Uganda: Rethinking energy geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa', Energy Research and Social Science, 55, pp. 71 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.04.016

Munro P; Schiffer A, 2019, 'Ethnographies of Electricity Scarcity: mobile phone charging spaces and the recrafting of energy poverty in Africa', Energy and Buildings, 188-189, pp. 175 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.01.038

Munro PG; Bartlett AL; Dhizaala JT; Laloyo SA; Oswin SO; Walker S, 2019, 'International fieldschool reciprocity: using a whole-of-university approach to create positive change in Northern Uganda', Higher Education Research & Development, 38, pp. 1461 - 1474., http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1657071

Melo Zurita MDL; Munro PG, 2019, 'Voluminous territorialisation: Historical contestations over the Yucatan Peninsula’s subterranean waterscape', Geoforum, 102, pp. 38 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.019

Kirksey E; Munro P; Van Dooren T; Emery D; Kreller AM; Kwok J; Miller M; Morris K; Newson S; Olejniczak E; Ow A; Tuckson K; Sannen S; Martin J; Lau K, 2018, 'Feeding the flock: Wild cockatoos and their Facebook friends', Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1, pp. 602 - 620, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848618799294

Melo Zurita M; Munro PG; Houston D, 2018, 'Un-earthing the Subterranean Anthropocene', Area, 50, pp. 298 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/area.12369

Silva Ontiveros L; Munro PG; Melo Zurita M, 2018, 'Proyectos de Muerte: Energy justice conflicts on Mexico’s unconventional gas frontier', Extractive Industries and Society, 5, pp. 481 - 481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2018.06.010

Melo Zurita M; Cook B; Thomsen DC; Munro PG; Smith TF; Gallina J, 2018, 'Living with disasters: social capital for disaster governance', Disasters, 42, pp. 471 - 589, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12257

Melo Zurita M; Thomsen DC; Holbrook NJ; Smith TF; Lyth A; Munro PG; de Bruin A; Seddaiu G; Roggero PP; Baird J; Plummer R; Bullock R; Collins K; Powell N, 2018, 'Global water governance and Climate Change: Identifying innovative arrangements for adaptive transformation', Water (Switzerland), 10, pp. 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w10010029

Samarakoon S; Christiansen A; Munro PG, 2017, 'Equitable and Quality Education for All of Africa? The Challenges of Using ICT in Education', Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 16, pp. 645 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341454

Munro P; van der Horst G; Healy S, 2017, 'Energy justice for all? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone', Energy Policy, 105, pp. 635 - 641, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.01.038

Munro PG; van der Horst G, 2016, 'Contesting African landscapes: A critical reappraisal of Sierra Leones competing forest cover histories', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34, pp. 706 - 724, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775815622210

de Rijke K; Munro P; Melo Zurita MDL, 2016, 'The Great Artesian Basin: A Contested Resource Environment of Subterranean Water and Coal Seam Gas in Australia', Society and Natural Resources, 29, pp. 696 - 710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1122133

Munro PG; van der Horst G; Willans S; Kemeny P; Christiansen A; Schiavone N, 2016, 'Social enterprise development and renewable energy dissemination in Africa: The experience of the community charging station model in Sierra Leone', Progress in Development Studies, 16, pp. 24 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464993415608080

Munro PG, 2015, 'Book Review: Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61, pp. 476 - 477

Munro PG, 2015, 'Geza Teleki and the Emergence of Sierra Leone’s Wildlife Conservation Movement', Primate Conservation, 29, pp. 115 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1896/052.029.0112

Munro PG, 2015, 'Book Reviews: Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life of Earth, By Alison Bashford"', Australian Journal of Politics & History, 61, pp. 450 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12113

Kemeny P; Munro PG; Schiavone N; van der Horst G; Willans S, 2014, 'Community Charging Stations in rural sub-Saharan Africa: Commercial success, positive externalities, and growing supply chains', Energy for Sustainable Development, 23, pp. 228 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2014.09.005

Jacobson C; Hughey KFD; Lynch AJJ; Nursey-Bray N; O'Connell M; Munro PG; Vella K; Whiley D; Dovers S; Carter, R RW, 2014, 'Twenty years of pacifying responses to environmental management', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 21, pp. 143 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2014.917594

Munro PG; Melo Zurita MDL, 2011, 'The Role of Cenotes in the Social History of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula', Environment and History, 17, pp. 583 - 612, http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734011X13150366551616

Munro PG, 2011, 'Africa's Turn? A Boston Review Book', PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 11, pp. 260 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146499341001100310

Munro PG; Hiemstra-van der Horst G, 2011, 'Conserving exploitation? A political ecology of forestry policy in Sierra Leone', AUSTRALASIAN REVIEW OF AFRICAN STUDIES, 32, pp. 59 - 78

Munro PG, 2011, 'BOOK REVIEW: Emma Christopher. A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and How it Led to the Settlement of Australia', The Australasian Review of African Studies, 32, pp. 152 - 153

Munro PG; Hiemstra van der Horst G, 2011, 'Conserving exploitation? A political ecology of forestry management in Sierra Leone', The Australasian Review of African Studies, 21, pp. 59 - 72, http://www.informit.com.au/products/productdetails.aspx?id=1447-8420&container=IELIND

Hiemstra-van der Horst G; Munro PG; Batterbury S, 2011, 'Les réseaux illégaux du pillage: La demande globale de bois et la (re)commercialisation des forêts d’Afrique de l’Ouest', Écologie & Politique, 42, pp. 47 - 58

Munro PG; Melo Zurita M, 2009, 'Aprendiendo del pasado: Impactos históricos de intervenciones en la agricultura de Sierra Leona', Ecología Política, 38, pp. 92 - 95

Munro PG, 2009, 'Deforestation: Constructing Problems and Solutions on Sierra Leone's Freetown Peninsula', The Journal of Political Ecology, 16, pp. 104 - 124

Conference Papers

Munro PG; Hiemstra-van der Horst G, 2010, 'Conserving exploitation? A political ecology of forestry management in Sierra Leone', Melbourne: Victoria University, presented at 33rd conference of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific,, Melbourne: Victoria University, 02 December 2010 - 04 December 2010

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