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Many current social phenomena can be understood as a result of actors' interactions on local, national, and global levels. For example, national and regional implementation processes toward free trade, democratization, and local empowerment are diverse across countries, although they are acknowledged as the global trends. Of course, local influences are much more diverse because they largely depend on how various actors, such as firms, local people, government, and NGOs, interact to create culture, rules, and institutions.

I am currently engaged in inter-disciplinary research on how such actor interactions affect the creation of institutions related to environmental governance and its performance, and how regional peculiarity affects its pathways. I am investigating this issue in the following two concrete situations concerning resource production and conservation in Southeast Asia:

1. Reconciliation processes between local people, government, and entrepreneurs on raw material production in the pulp and paper industry

2. Policy formulations, implementations, and local responses in “Community-based Resource Management”