Postgraduate Students

Sophal Chhun is working on his PhD, researching how ecosystem service approaches and choice modeling with regards to environmental valuation can help integrate customary management areas and marine reserves into New Zealand?s quota management system. His main supervisor at CSAFE is Professor Henrik Moller. Sophal is also working with Dr. Viktoria Kahui and Dr. Paul Thorsnes of the Department of Economics.

Sophal received a bachelor's degree in Forestry Science from the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), as well as a graduate diploma and master's degree in Environmental Management & Development from the Australian National University in Canberra.

Sophal had experience working in the Ministry of Environment in Cambodia for more than seven years. He was the Chief of Project Monitoring Office in the Department of Environmental Impact Assessment and a member of the Legal, Environmental, Economic, Social & Cultural Advisory Group (Think Tank) for Cambodia's Minister of the Environment. He was actively involved with several collaborative projects at the ministry, such as the UNOPS-GEF funded project, ?Supporting Country Action on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Programme of Work on Protected Areas?; the World Bank funded project, ?Strengthening Environmental Management Capacity at the Local Level in Cambodia?; and the project, ?EU-Asia Institutional Co-operation and Multinational Dialogue on Enabling the Meaningful Participation of Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).? Sophal also had experience working as a consultant and collaborator with international and national organisations, such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Oxfam America (OA), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Fauna and Flora International (FFI), American Friends Service Committee (ASC), China Appraisal Centre for Environment and Engineering (ACEE), and Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP).

Sophal's research interests include impact assessment, environmental policy analysis, and economic valuation of the environment. He is keen to explore how a resource-use policy might and should be changed if environmental impacts and the value of such impacts are taken into account in decision-making. He also collaborates with other research networks such as the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and the Cambodian Environmental Association (CEA). 

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Significant Publications

Chhun, S, Kim, S & Ngy, L 2010, Environmental Impact Assessment and Mining in North-eastern Cambodia: A Scoping Study, Cambodian Ministry of Environment and WWF Greater Mekong ? Cambodia Country Programme, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Chhun, S & Ngy, L 2010, The State of SEA, CIA, EIA, and EMP and Capacity Needs: Cambodia, ADB/GMS RETA No 6440 ? REG: Facilitating Regional Power Trading and Environmentally Sustainable Development of Electricity Infrastructure in the GMS, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Chhun, S 2009, 'Cambodia's Report on Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management', a paper presented at The 4th Seoul Initiative Leadership Programme on Green Growth: Environmental Sustainability and Green Industry ? 14-24 September 2009, National Institute of Environmental Human Resources Development, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

Chhun, S 2009, 'EMP and monitoring', a paper presented at the Regional Stakeholders Consultation Workshop ? 9-10 July 2009, ADB/GMS RETA No 6440 ? REG: Facilitating Regional Power Trading and Environmentally Sustainable Development of Electricity Infrastructure in the GMS, Bangkok, Thailand.

Chhun, S 2009, 'Current status of the Cambodian EIA system', a paper presented at the Regional Stakeholders Consultation Workshop ? 9-10 July 2009, ADB/GMS RETA No 6440 ? REG: Facilitating Regional Power Trading and Environmentally Sustainable Development of Electricity Infrastructure in the GMS, Bangkok, Thailand.

Chhun, S & Ke VW 2009, The Guide to the Application of the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool, ?Supporting Country Action on the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas? Project, Secretariat for National Biodiversity Steering Committee, Cambodian Ministry of Environment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Chhun, S & Ke, VW 2009, Synthesis Report on METT application in Phase II, ?Supporting Country Action on the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas? Project, Secretariat for National Biodiversity Steering Committee, Cambodian Ministry of Environment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Chhun, S & Ke, VW 2009, Synthesis Report on METT Application in Phase I, ?Supporting Country Action on the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas? Project, Secretariat for National Biodiversity Steering Committee, Cambodian Ministry of Environment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Chhun, S 2008, 'Project monitoring process', a paper presented at the First National Forum on Environmental Impact Assessment and Safeguards ? 2-3 October 2008, WB: IDF Grand No. TF 055949 - Strengthening Environmental Management Capacity at Local Level in Cambodia Project, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Chhun, S 2007, ?Community-based ecotourism as a conservation strategy: A case in Kirirom National Park, Cambodia?, a paper presented at the Environmental and Resource Economics Early Career Researcher Workshop (E-CReW 2007), Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia.

National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) Project 2005, Proceeding of the Third National Stakeholder Consultation Workshop ? 13-14 October 2005, NCSA Project Ministry of Environment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) Project 2005, Proceeding of the Senior Official?s Briefing on National Capacity Self-Assessment ? 20 September 2005, NCSA Project, Ministry of Environment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) Project 2005, Proceeding of the Second National Stakeholder Consultation Workshop ? 27-28 June 2005, NCSA Project Ministry of Environment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Cambodian Ministry of Environment (MoE) 2004, Environmental Action Plan 2004-2008, MoE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Cambodian Ministry of Environment (MoE) 2004, Annual report 2004 and vision 2005, MoE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Cambodian Ministry of Environment (MoE) 2003, Annual report 2003 and vision 2004, MoE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.