Dr. Lonn Pichdara
Position
Assistant Professor
Unit
Natural Resources Management (NRM), Faculty of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
Contact Info
QUALIFICATION
AREA OF EXPERTISE
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
PROJECT AND PARTNERS
AWARDS & HONORS
- Ph. D in Forest Management, Kyushu University, Japan
- M. Sc. in Forest Management, Kyushu University, Japan
- B. Sc, in Environmental Science, Royal University of Phnom Penh
- Climate resilience
- Eco-Tourism
- CBNRM
- Forest policy, REDD+
- NbS, biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Gender
- Climate change
- Water diplomacy & scarcity
- Carbon-constrained development
- Renewable energy
- Green development
- Executive Director, My Village (2022–2025)
- Director, Centre for Natural Resources and Environment, CDRI (2020–2021)
- Research Fellow/Associate, CDRI (2008–2021)
- Graduate-level teaching: Nature-based Solutions, REDD+, GIS, Biodiversity
- Research: Forest monitoring, forest policy, environmental economics, carbon capture, ICT tools for NRM, climate change and gender, renewable energy, water-energy-food nexus, agriculture policy
- Graduate supervision, curriculum design, SERD strategic planning
- Siciliano, G., Cantoni, R., Lonn, P., Por, N., Kry, S., Morn, C., & Oudom, H. (2025). “Leave no one behind”. A power-capabilities-energy justice perspective on energy transition in remote rural communities in Cambodia. World Development, 185, 106793.
- Lonn, P., Monin, N., Marong, C., Sivmuy, D., & Saren, K. (2022). Challenges of targeting poor and vulnerable groups to reduce climate change vulnerability: The case of a Water and Sanitation project in Kampong Svay District, Cambodia. In Financial Crises, Poverty and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges in the Context of the SDGs and Covid-19 Recovery (pp. 155-169). Springer, Cham.
- Ota, T., Lonn, P., & Mizoue, N. (2021). Contribution of Community-Based Ecotourism to Forest Conservation and Local Livelihoods. Decision Science for Future Earth, 197.
Ota, T., Lonn, P., & Mizoue, N. (2020). A country scale analysis revealed effective forest policy affecting forest cover changes in Cambodia. Land Use Policy, 95, 104597.
- Lonn, P., Mizoue, N., Ota, T., Kajisa, T., & Yoshida, S. (2019). Using Forest Cover Maps and
Local People’s Perceptions to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Community-based Ecotourism for Forest Conservation in Chambok (Cambodia). Environmental Conservation, 46(2), 111-117. DOI:10.1017/S0376892918000462
- Lonn, P., Mizoue, N., Ota, T., Kajisa, T., & Yoshida, S. (2018). Evaluating the Contribution of Community–based Ecotourism (CBET) to Household Income and Livelihood Changes: A Case Study of the Chambok CBET Program in Cambodia. Ecological Economics, 151, 62–69.
- Lonn, P., Mizoue, N., Ota, T., Kajisa, T., & Yoshida, S. (2018). Biophysical Factors Affecting Forest Cover Changes in Community Forestry: A Country Scale Analysis in Cambodia. Forests, 9(5), 273.
- Lonn, P, Kalyan, M., & Visalsok, T. (2016). Agricultural Policy and Institutional Reforms in Cambodia: Experiences, Impacts, and Lessons. Southeast Asian Agriculture and Development Primer Series 2nd Edition.
- UNDP, UNEP, FAO, UN Women, GIZ, WWF, CI
- Collaborators: Kyushu University Japan, SOAS UK, SEI Thailand, Maejo University Thailand, SUSTech China
- Project Themes: PA, forest governance and livelihood, water diplomacy, climate vulnerability, agricultural policy, renewable energy, water-energy-food nexus
- Workshops and trainings across Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, and Vietnam
- Community support on ecotourism, GIS, REDD+
- Strategic advice: climate policy, forest conservation, rural livelihoods
- Outstanding Presenter Award (Hiroshima University, 2018)
- Training: STATA, NVivo, GIS, Econometrics, Environmental Economics
