Staff
Tim Bayliss-Smith, MA PhD
Reader in Pacific Geography and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge
Member of the Society, Environment and Development and Historical & Cultural Geography research clusters, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
Interests range from biogeography to cultural geography and development studies, with a regional focus on Melanesia and northern Scandinavia.
Qualifications
- BA University of Cambridge
- PhD University of Cambridge
Research
Tim Bayliss-Smith is a member of the Political Ecology group. His current research projects include:
- The governance of tropical rainforests and softwood plantations in Melanesia, in the context of commercial logging. There is a particular focus on the local social institutions for common property resource management. Fieldwork sites include Fiji and Solomon Islands.
- Agricultural intensification in pre-colonial Melanesia, with field sites at Kuk in the New Guinea Highlands and Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands.
Tim Bayliss-Smith also has links to the Historical and Cultural Geography research cluster, with ongoing work on:
- Historical geography of Sami hunting and reindeer herding society in northern Sweden, including the documentation and interpretation of the Padjelanta rock art site in Laponia.
- Historical demography of Melanesia, focusing on depopulation in Solomon Islands in the 19th century and a re-evaluation of the work of W.H.R. Rivers.
Publications
Books:
- 2000: E.Hviding and T. Bayliss-Smith Islands of Rainforest: Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-Tourism in Solomon Islands. Ashgate, Aldershot.
- 1990: T.P. Bayliss-Smith and S.E. Owens, eds. Britain’s Changing Environment from the Air Cambridge University Press, 256 pp.
- 1988: T.P. Bayliss-Smith, H.C. Brookfield, R.D. Bedford and M. Latham Islands, Islanders and the World: the Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji Cambridge University Press, 323 pp.
- 1984: T.P. Bayliss-Smith and Sudhir Wanmali, eds. Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia. Cambridge University Press, 383 pp.
- 1982: T.P. Bayliss-Smith The Ecology of Agricultural Systems. Cambridge University Press, 104 pp. (reprinted 1987)
- 1977: T.P. Bayliss-Smith and R.G.A. Feachem, eds. Subsistence and Survival: Rural Ecology in the Pacific. Academic Press, London, 428 pp.
Other selected publications (since 2000):
- T.P. Bayliss-Smith (2004) Hunting and gathering societies, energy flows in. In C.J. Cleveland, ed. The Encyclopaedia of Energy, volume 3, 183-195. New York, Academic Press and Elsevier.
- T.P. Bayliss-Smith (2003) Comment on the archaeology and ethnohistory of precolonial and colonial Roviana. Current Anthropology 44 (suppl.), S70-S71.
- T.P. Bayliss-Smith, E. Hviding and T.C. Whitmore (2003) Rain forest composition and histories of disturbance in Solomon Islands. Ambio 32(5), 346-52.T.P. Bayliss-Smith (2003) Goodbye to geographical reality? A retrospect on the New Geography. In- S. Trudgill and A. Roy, eds. Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography, 63-84. London, Hodder Arnold.
- T.P. Bayliss-Smith (2003) Livelihoods and sustainability at the agrarian frontier. Geografiska Annaler 85B (1), 63-65.
- Mulk, I.M. and T.P. Bayliss-Smith (2001) Anthropomorphic images at the Padjelanta site, northern Sweden: rock engravings in the context of Sámi myth and ritual. Current Swedish Archaeology 9, 1-30.
- Hviding, E. and T.P. Bayliss-Smith (2000) Islands of Rainforest: Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-Tourism in Solomon Islands. Ashgate, Aldershot. pp. 1-371.
Rob Small BSc (Hons) MPhil
Doctoral Researcher and Member of Darwin College, Cambridge
Member of Society, Environment and Development research cluster, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Interests are the interplay between conservation and development with a regional focus on Papua New Guinea
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Tropical Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen
- MPhil Environment and Development, University of Cambridge
Research
- 2003: BSc (Hons) Thesis – Aspects of the Population and Conservation Biology of the Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus scottae, in the Torricelli Mountains, Papua New Guinea.
- 2004: MPhil Thesis – Uptake and the Success of Insect Farming Projects in Papua New Guinea Implications for Biodiversity Conservation