Selected Journal Articles

• Milne, S., Beaver, S., Baljak, C., Cox, A., Howden, M. 2024 ‘Carbon farming co-benefits: A review of concepts, policy and potential in Australian landscapes’ The Rangeland Journal here [open access]

• Mahanty, S., Milne, S., Barney, K., Dressler, W., Hirsch P., To, P. 2023 ‘Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis’ Dialogues in Human Geography here [open access]

• Mackenzie, E., Milne, S., Van Kerkhoff, L., Ray, B. 2022 ‘Development or dispossession? Exploring the consequences of a major Chinese investment in rural Cambodia’. Journal of Peasant Studies here

• Milne, S., Mahanty, S. and Cristofoletti T. 2021 ‘Ruptured worlds: A Photo Essay on the Lower Sesan Two dam, Cambodia’. Made in China here

• Soung, S., Mahanty, S. and Milne S. 2021. ‘Under the water: Cambodian artist Sao Sreymao on the lived experience of hydropower dams’. Made in China here

• Loughlin, N. and Milne, S. 2020. ‘After the grab? Land control and regime survival in Cambodia, post-2012’ Journal of Contemporary Asia here

• Milne, S. and Mahanty, S. 2019 ‘Value and bureaucratic violence in the green economy’ Geoforum 98(January): 133-143 here

• Milne, S., Mahanty, S., To, P., Dressler, W., Kanowski, P., Thavat, M. 2019. ‘Learning from ‘actually existing’ REDD+: A synthesis of ethnographic findings’ Conservation and Society 17(1): 84-95

• Mahanty, S. and Milne S. 2016 ‘Anatomy of a boom: Cassava as a ‘gateway’ crop in Cambodia’s north eastern borderland. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 57(2), pp. 180-193

• Milne, S., Milne M., Nurfatriani, F., Tacconi, L. 2016 ‘How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia’ Ecology & Society 21(2)

• Milne, S. 2015 ‘Cambodia’s unofficial regime of extraction: Illicit logging in the shadow of transnational governance and investment’ Critical Asian Studies 47(2), pp. 200-228

• Baker, J. and Milne S. 2015 ‘Dirty Money States: Illicit Economies and the State in Southeast Asia’ Critical Asian Studies 47(2), pp. 151-176.

• Cacho, O., Milne, S., Gonzalez, R., Tacconi, L. 2014 ‘Benefits and costs of deforestation by smallholders: Implications for forest conservation and climate policy’. Ecological Economics 107(2014), pp. 321-332.

• Milne, S. 2013 ‘Under the leopard’s skin: Land commodification and the dilemmas of Indigenous communal title in upland Cambodia’. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 54(3), pp. 323-339

• Mahanty, S., Dressler, W., Milne, S., Filer, C. 2013 ‘Unravelling property relations around forest carbon’. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 34(2013), pp. 188-205

• Milne, S. 2012 ‘Grounding forest carbon: Property relations and avoided deforestation in Cambodia’. Human Ecology 40(5), pp. 693-706.

• Mahanty, S., Milne, S., Dressler, W., Filer, C. 2012 ‘The social life of forest carbon: Property and politics in the production of a new commodity’ Human Ecology 40(5), pp. 661-664.

• Milne, S. and Adams, W. 2012 ‘Market Masquerades: Uncovering the politics of community-level Payments for Environmental Services in Cambodia’ Development and Change 43(1),133-158

• Milne, S. and Niesten, E. 2009 ‘Direct payments for biodiversity conservation in developing countries: practical insights for design and implementation’. Oryx, 43(4), 530-541

Books

• Milne, Sarah (2022) ‘Corporate Nature: An insider’s ethnography of global conservation’, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. See here

• Milne, Sarah and Sango Mahanty (eds). 2015 ‘Conservation and development in Cambodia: Exploring frontiers of change in nature, state and society’, Routledge, Oxon. See book outline and interview about the book

Book Chapters

• Milne, S., Frewer, T., Mahanty, S. 2023. ‘Green Territoriality and Resource Extraction in Cambodia’ in Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing here

• Milne, S. 2021 ‘Resist or comply? Experiences of violence around dams in Cambodia’ in M. Menton and P. Le Billon (eds) ‘Environmental and land defenders: Deadly struggles for life and territory’. Routledge forthcoming

• Milne, S. 2017 ‘Combining participatory tools with ethnography in rural Cambodia’ in Crawford G., Kruckenberg L., Loubere N., Morgan R. (eds) ‘Undertaking Research in Global Development’ SAGE, London. p. 53-58

• Milne, S. and Mahanty, S. 2015 ‘The political ecology of Cambodia’s transformation’ in Milne, S. and Mahanty, S. (eds.) ‘Conservation and development in Cambodia: Exploring frontiers of change in nature, state and society’ Routledge, Oxon. p. 1-27

• Milne, S., Pak, K., & Sullivan M. 2015 ‘Shackled to nature? The post-conflict state and its relationship with natural resources’ in Milne, S. and Mahanty, S. (eds.) ‘Conservation and development in Cambodia: Exploring frontiers of change in nature, state and society’ Routledge, Oxon. p. 28-50

• Mahanty, S., Bradley, A., & Milne, S. 2015 ‘The forest carbon commodity chain in Cambodia’s voluntary carbon market.’ in Milne, S. and Mahanty, S. (eds.) ‘Conservation and development in Cambodia: Exploring frontiers of change in nature, state and society’ Routledge, Oxon. p. 177-200

Selected other contributions

• Milne, S. 2021 “The hidden cost: Are Cambodia’s carbon credits really clean and green?” Southeast Asia GLOBE here

• Milne, S. 2020 TEDx Talk Beyond Carbon Credits about climate mitigation in Cambodia

• Mahanty S., Milne S., and Chann, S. 2020 “Inside SDG9: Can hydroelectric dams be “resilient”, “inclusive” and “sustainable”?” Mekong Connect 2(1) here

• Milne, S., Hendriks, C. and Mahanty, S. 2020 “From the bushfires to coronavirus, our old ‘normal’ is gone forever. So what’s next?” The Conversation. here

• Milne, S. 2020 “Corporate Nature” in “Biodiversity Revisited’s Provocations for a New Research Agenda” here

• Baker, J. and Milne, S. 2019 “Cambodia’s anti-corruption regime, 2008-2018: A critical political economy approach” U4-the anti-corruption resource centre (Issue 2019:1) here

• Milne, S. 2019 “Reacting to reform: Cambodia’s environment” for DevPol blog here

• Milne S. 2017 “On the perils of resistance: Local politics and environmental struggle in Cambodia” International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, No. 78, Leiden here

• Milne S. and Mahanty S. 2015 “Through the cracks, light enters: Thinking differently about environmental reform in Cambodia” New Mandala here

• Milne, S. and Chervier, C. 2014 “A review of payments for environmental services experiences in Cambodia” Centre for International Forest Research (CIFOR) Working Paper no.154, Bogor, here

• Milne, S. 2014 “Resource conflicts: Can Cambodia’s sites of struggle become sources of hope?” East Asia Forum Quarterly, March-May issue here

• Milne, S. 2013 “Situation analysis at three project sites on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: An exploration of the socio-economic, institutional, and political context for community-based fisheries management”. IUCN Report - download here

• Milne S. 2012 ‘The dark side of green: Exploring corruption and international conservation in Cambodia’, for International Workshop on Corruption, Natural Resources and the Environment, hosted by Australian National University and the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor

• Milne, S. 2012 ‘Chut Wutty: Tragic casualty of Cambodia’s dirty war to save forests’ New Mandala – New perspectives on Mainland Southeast Asia, April 30th

• Milne, S. and Ouk, L. 2012 ‘A Not-so-perfect Match? Community experiences with the coupling of avoided deforestation and agricultural intensification in upland Cambodia’. Paper for conference ‘Climate Change Mitigation with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’, United Nations University- Traditional Knowledge Initiative, Cairns 26th -28th March