UHM LuceSEA Transitions: Environment, Society and Change
Exploring how socio-economic and political transformations are reshaping Southeast Asian environments.
About Our Project
Aloha, welcome to our UHM LuceSEA Transitions Project! This project focuses on how socio-economic and political shifts are transforming Southeast Asia (SEA) societies in a time of accelerated climate and environmental change. We are a research cluster of UHM scholars who study SEA environmental transitions, that is, the transformation from a rural agrarian society to one that is predominantly urbanized, industrialized, and market-based. Our UHM community of researchers has collaborated with SEA colleagues for decades to document how the interconnections between rural and urban areas and the diversification of household economies have created places of mobility in which households shift between agricultural and industrial pursuits. This website is a living repository of our project outcomes, engaged scholarship and growing networks that continue to persist beyond the project.
