Daniel Marks
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Dr. Danny Marks is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics and Policy in the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University. Prior to this position, he was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the Department of Asian and International Studies of City University of Hong Kong. He also was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia project at the Munk School of Global Affairs of the University of Toronto. Dr. Marks has spent a number of years conducting research and working in Southeast Asia, particularly in the field of environmental governance. He has worked for a number of organizations in the region, including the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Governance Hub, the Rockefeller Foundation, ActionAid and the NGO Forum on Cambodia. Dr. Marks completed his PhD dissertation, An Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Bangkok Floods, at the University of Sydney. He received his MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His research interests are political ecology, environmental justice, climate governance, disaster risk reduction, with a focus on Southeast Asia.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2025 | Yingshan Lau; Miles Kenney‐Lazar; Shakura N. Bashir; Robert Cole; Dixon T. Gevaña; Janice Lee; Danny Marks; Michelle A. Miller; Yunrui Ren; David Taylor; Yuchuan Zhou (2025) 'Challenges in Forest Carbon Governance: Insights From Southeast Asia'. WIREs Climate Change, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Magnetti, J.; Marks, D.; Dominioni, G. (2025) 'Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland'. Energy Research and Social Science, 125 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Marks, D; Baird, I. G. (2025) 'The urban political ecology of worsening flooding in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Neopatrimonialism, displacement, and uneven harm'. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 118 . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105229 | |
| 2024 | Quevedo, J.M.D.; Miller, M.A.; Gevaña, D.T.; Marks, D.; Friess, D.A.; Tonoto, P.; Taylor, D. (2024) 'Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions'. Ambio, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Marks, Danny; Connell, John (2024) 'Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok's increasing urban heat island'. Urban Studies, 61 (15). [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Marks, D.; Baird, I.G.; Jirasatthumb, N. (2024) 'Thailand's Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and the Need to Better Protect Smallholders'. Critical Asian Studies, 56 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Marks, D.; Connell, J. (2024) '“Their lives don't matter to politicians”: The necropolitical ecology of Thailand's dangerous and unequal roads'. Political Geography, 108 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Marks, D.; Miller, M.A.; Vassanadumrongdee, S. (2023) 'Closing the loop or widening the gap? The unequal politics of Thailand's circular economy in addressing marine plastic pollution'. Journal of Cleaner Production, 391 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Marks, D.; Bayrak, M.M.; Connell, J. (2023) 'Increasing livelihood vulnerabilities to coastal erosion and wastewater intrusion: The political ecology of Thai aquaculture in peri-urban Bangkok'. Geographical Research, 61 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Marks, D.; Pulliat, G. (2022) 'Climate Governance in Southeast Asian small and mid-sized cities: undermining resilience and distributing risks unevenly'. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 19 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Marks, D.; Miller, M.A. (2022) 'A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins'. Environmental Policy and Governance, 32 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Marks, D.; Bayrak, M.M.; Jahangir, S.; Henig, D.; Bailey, A. (2022) 'Towards a cultural lens for adaptation pathways to climate change'. Regional Environmental Change, 22 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Bayrak, Mucahid Mustafa; Marks, Danny; Hauser, Leon T. (2022) 'Disentangling the concepts of global climate change, adaptation, and human mobility: a political-ecological exploration in Vietnam's Mekong Delta'. Climate and Development, 14 (10). [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Omeyer, L.C.M.; Duncan, E.M.; Aiemsomboon, K.; Beaumont, N.; Bureekul, S.; Cao, B.; Carrasco, L.R.; Chavanich, S.; Clark, J.R.; Cordova, M.R.; Couceiro, F.; Cragg, S.M.; Dickson, N.; Failler, P.; Ferraro, G.; Fletcher, S.; Fong, J.; Ford, A.T.; Gutierrez, T.; Shahul Hamid, F.; Hiddink, J.G.; Hoa, P.T.; Holland, S.I.; Jones, L.; Jones, N.H.; Koldewey, H.; Lauro, F.M.; Lee, C.; Lewis, M.; Marks, D.; Matallana-Surget, S.; Mayorga-Adame, C.G.; McGeehan, J.; Messer, L.F.; Michie, L.; Miller, M.A.; Mohamad, Z.F.; Nor, N.H.M.; Müller, M.; Neill, S.P.; Nelms, S.E.; Onda, D.F.L.; Ong, J.J.L.; Pariatamby, A.; Phang, S.C.; Quilliam, R.; Robins, P.E.; Salta, M.; Sartimbul, A.; Shakuto, S.; Skov, M.W.; Taboada, E.B.; Todd, P.A.; Toh, T.C.; Valiyaveettil, S.; Viyakarn, V.; Wonnapinij, P.; Wood, L.E.; Yong, C.L.X. (2022) 'Priorities to inform research on marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia'. Science of the Total Environment, 841 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Cai, Y.; Marks, D. (2021) 'Photovoice in the age of social media: Helping to build participation needed for urban climate resilience?'. Urban Climate, 40 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Marks, D.; Breen, M. (2021) 'The political economy of corruption and unequal gains and losses in water and sanitation services: Experiences from Bangkok'. Water Alternatives, 14 (3):795-810. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Danny Marks (2020) 'An urban political ecology of Bangkok's awful traffic congestion'. Journal of Political Ecology, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Abdul-Lateef Balogun; Danny Marks; Richa Sharma; Himanshu Shekhar; Chiden Balmes; Dikman Maheng; Adnan Arshad; Pourya Salehi (2020) 'Assessing the Potentials of Digitalization as a Tool for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development in Urban Centres'. Sustainable Cities and Society, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Danny Marks; John Connell; Federico Ferrara (2019) 'Contested notions of disaster justice during the 2011 Bangkok floods'. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Danny Marks; Eli Elinoff (2020) 'Splintering disaster'. International Development Planning Review, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Danny Marks; Michelle Ann Miller; Sujitra Vassanadumrongdee (2020) 'The geopolitical economy of Thailand’s marine plastic pollution crisis'. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Vassanadumrongdee, S.; Hoontrakool, D.; Marks, D. (2020) 'Perception and behavioral changes of thai youths towards the plastic bag charging program'. Applied Environmental Research, 42 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Danny Marks; Jun Zhang (2019) 'Circuits of power'. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Danny Marks (2019) 'Assembling the 2011 Thailand floods'. Political Geography, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Frank Thomalla; Louis Lebel; Michael Boyland; Danny Marks; Ham Kimkong; Sinh Bach Tan; Agus Nugroho (2018) 'Long-term recovery narratives following major disasters in Southeast Asia'. Regional Environmental Change, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Danny Marks; Frank Thomalla (2017) 'Responses to the 2011 floods in Central Thailand'. Natural Hazards, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Danny Marks; Louis Lebel (2016) 'Disaster governance and the scalar politics of incomplete decentralization'. Habitat International, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Danny Marks (2015) 'The urban political ecology of the 2011 floods in Bangkok'. Pacific Affairs, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2011 | DANNY MARKS (2011) 'Climate Change and Thailand'. Contemporary Southeast Asia, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2010 | DANNY MARKS (2010) 'China's Climate Change Policy Process'. Journal of Contemporary China, . [Link] [DOI] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Boyland, M.; Marks, D.; Kimkong, H.; Nugroho, A. (2024) 'Towards Effective Loss and Damage Systems in Disaster Recovery Contexts in Southeast Asia' In: Linking Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Loss & Damage. Cham : Springer. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Marks, D. (2022) 'Transboundary governance failures and southeast Asia's plastic pollution' In: Routledge Handbook of Global Development. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Marks D. (2019) '‘We Are Quality Citizens of Bangkok Too’: Urban Activism in Bangkok During the 2011 Floods' In: Contested Cities and Urban Activism. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Marks D. (2019) 'Common challenges of smallholders in ASEAN: Lacking access to land, water, market, and state' In: Water and Power. Cham : Springer. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Marks D. (2019) 'Water access and resilience to climate-induced droughts in the thai secondary city of khon kaen: Unequal and unjust vulnerability' In: Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia. Cham : Springer. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Garschagen M.; Marks D. (2019) 'Towards an agenda for profound Urban climate resilience in Southeast Asia' In: Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia. Cham : Springer. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Marks D. (2019) 'Reducing the high vulnerability of the elderly to urban flooding: Findings from the 2011 floods in Bangkok' In: Social Work and Sustainability in Asia: Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Marks, D. (2019) 'The Political Ecology of Climate Injustice in Bangkok' In: Future Challenges of Cities in Asia. Amsterdam : University of Amsterdam Press. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Boyland, M.; Thomalla, F.; Lebel, L.; Marks, D.; Tan, S.B.; Kimong, H.; Nugroho, A. (2019) 'Linking disaster recovery approaches and loss and damage systems in the Mekong Region' In: Development and Climate Change in the Mekong Region. Petaling Jaya : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre. [Link] | |
| 2018 | Danny Marks (2018) 'The political ecology of uneven development and vulnerability to disasters' In: Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Danny Marks (2015) 'Thailand' In: Ethics and climate change. [Link] [DOI] |
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Research Interests
Political ecology; Environmental governance and politics; Climate change governance; Disaster risk reduction; Thailand