About Dr Soyeun Kim

Dr Soyeun Kim's research interests are broadly in political ecology and political economy of development and environmentalism - with a particular geographical focus on East Asia.  Her current research is on the East Asian donors (aid providers), and environmentalism and green development/growth in East Asia.

Key Publications and Activities

Journal Articles and Papers

• (2010) 'Greening the Dam: the Case of the San Roque Multipurpose Project in the Philippines', Geoforum, 41 (4), pp. 627-637.
• (2009) 'Translating sustainable development: greening of Japan's international cooperation', Global Environmental Politics. 9(2), pp. 24-51
• (April 2007) 'Michael Redclift: Global Environmental Change and Sustainable Development', The Korea Spatial Planning Review (Guk-to yeon-gu), pp. 82-95

Consultancy and Other Papers and Reports

• Currently a policy advisor (on the environment and climate change-related issues) to a Korean NGO "ODA Watch", and an advisor to a research project to produce Mongolia Country Assistance Strategy for Korea International Cooperation Agency
• (2010) Korea: ‘Something Old’ and ‘Something Borrowed,’ NORRAG Newsletter: A Brave New World of 'Emerging', 'Non-DAC' Donors and their Differences from Traditional Donors, NN44, September, pp. 76-78. <http://www.norrag.org/issues/article/1344/en/korea-_something-old-and-_something-borrowed.html>
  
• (April 2010) Energy and Environment: Green Sparks and Shoots, Special Report for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Africa-Asian Confidential, April, pp 8 -9.
• (January 2010) ‘Broken-hagen accord that smashed our hope for Hopen-hangen’ (written in Korean), ODA Watch News Letter, Vol. 37.
  
• (May 2009) ‘Development for whom? – the question ‘unanswered’ Part One’ (written in Korean), ODA Watch News Letter, Vol. 31. 
• (May 2009) ‘Development for whom? – the question ‘unanswered’ Part Two’ (written in Korean), ODA Watch News Letter, Vol. 32.
• (2008) 'A discussant report – looking into the Dok-do (Liancourt Rocks) territorial dispute through the comparison of diplomatic strategies taken by Japan and Korea, an unpublished monograph submitted to the Northeast History Foundation
• (2007) 'Bringing science into UK international development', chapter of Benchmarking Studies on EU-UK Science and Technology Trends, consultancy report for Korean Ministry of Science and Technology, pp.161-184
• (2007) 'Japan: Production System and Market Structure', in Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice and Vina Ram-Bidesi, Pacific Island Countries, the Global Tuna Industry and the International Trade Regime, c.450pp. [fully peer reviewed electronic publication] pp. 235 – 278, co-authored with Liam Campling

Funded Research Projects

Conferences and Workshops

• (2010) A Bridge over Troubled ‘Worlds’? – an ethical case of South Korea’s aid, a paper presented at the 2010 Development Studies Association UK Annual Conference Values, Ethics and Morality, Westminster, London, 5 November
•  (2010) ‘Japan’s climate aid to Africa’, a paper presented at The TICAD Initiative: What is new in Japanese Economic Assistance to Africa?, 11 -12 October, University of Leeds and Birkbeck College (University of London)
• (2010) ‘Contextualising for other political ecology’, a paper presented at the panel ‘Globalising political ecology: a high time for ‘other’ political ecology?’ (organised by Soyeun Kim and Godwin Ojo), the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographer Annual International Conference Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment, Royal Geographical Society, London, 2 September 
• (2010) ‘Mainstreaming Gender – the case of Japan and Korea’s development assistance’, a paper presented at a workshop titled Gender: Perceptions and Realities in East Asia, organised by the White Rose East Asia Centre’s Social Change and Transition Cluster, University of Sheffield, 17 June
•  (2010) Political ecology and East Asian emerging actors, a seminar talk at the Department of Geography, King's College London, 27 January
• (2009) ‘Japan’s common but differentiated approach to climate change in Africa’, a paper presented at The Tokyo International Conference on African Development: Japan’s attempts to Re-invent the Development of Africa, University of Leeds, UK, 17 February
• (2007) ‘East Asian new donors and Japan: historical and institutional aspects’, Draft paper presented to a conference for Early Career Researchers: Dynamics of Transformation in East Asia, Edinburgh, UK, 24-26 October
• (2005) ‘Greening of aid: Political Ecology of Japanese Bilateral Aid in the Philippines’, paper presented at Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Conference Flows and spaces in a globalised world, Royal Geographical Society, London, September