About

Dr. Bernadette (Babette) P. Resurrección has researched gender, livelihoods, climate change adaptation, migration, and natural resource management in Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. She is a Senior Research Fellow at SEI Asia.

Babette leads sponsored projects on climate adaptation, gender and water stresses in peri-urban Southeast Asia (IDRC), mobility and disasters in Philippine coastal areas (The Research Council of Norway), and the Mekong research fellowships program on water governance (CPWF-M-POWER-AusAID).

Babette is an Associate Editor, Gender, Technology and Development (Taylor & Francis). Apart from book chapters and scientific papers in journals, she has co-edited Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions (Routledge, 2012) and Water Rights and Social Justice in Mekong Waters (Routledge, 2011).

In previous years, she led and co-managed IDRC-supported competitive research grants projects such as Gender and Social Analysis in Environment and Development (SAGA), Bio-innovation for Poverty Alleviation, as well as EU-supported Asia Link Projects on Gender, Migration and Sustainable Development, and Gender, Development and Public Policy in Asia.

Among her professional publications, she has co-authored studies on knowledge gaps in climate adaptation in Southeast Asia for ISET-IDRC-DFID; on gender and the adoption of the system of rice intensification in Cambodia for Oxfam America; and on gender, migration and development for the UNDP Asia-Pacific Human Development Report, 2010.

She served as a member of the management team of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food and as a member of the Sector Monitoring Group of AusAID?s Agriculture and Rural Development Initiatives in Cambodia.

Babette was formerly Associate Professor of Gender & Development Studies at the School of Environment, Resources & Development of the Asian Institute of Technology, a regional post-graduate institution in Thailand. She also received her masters and doctoral degrees in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.