BIOGRAPHY
Sonny Mumbunan is an ecological economist. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Leipzig, Germany. He is an associate researcher at the University of Indonesia’s Research Center for Climate Change, Depok, Indonesia. Since 2017, he is also a senior economist at the World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia.
He is a member of the Indonesian Academy of Young Scientists (ALMI). He is currently part of a thematic group “Climate Change and Tropical Marine Conservation” at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) that seeks to gain a better understanding on how MPAs are coping in times of a changing climate. The larger project intends to bring together information on what observed impacts of climate change on human and non-human communities in and adjacent to MPAs are and, for this, plans to look at select cases of MPAs in Indonesia and the Dutch Caribbean that represent highly sensitive and biologically diverse tropical marine social-ecological systems.
My research intends to reflect on the governance of tropical marine social-ecological system that (re)consider interactions of social-economic conditions with climate and ecosystem changes and contribute to the discussion on building a plausible framework for this.