Matthew worked at SEI from 2002 until April 2012. Matthew was a Senior Research Associate and a theme co-leader for Rethinking Development.

Prior to this, he worked for Environmental Resources Management Limited and the Overseas Development Administration (now DFID). He was seconded to the SEI Centre in Asia in 2005 and took on the role of Acting Centre Director in 2007 until stepping down in May 2008.

His research work focuses on natural resources management issues and their relationship to livelihoods. His recent work has concentrated on water resource issues, primarily in Asia. His current research includes exploring water-constraints on the poor in the Mekong; and vulnerabilities linked to extreme events in the tourism sector.

He is also increasingly involved in climate change related research in the Mekong region, and also has a strong interest in the role of business social responsibility in relation to sustainable development.

Publications

• Metals in a Low-Carbon Economy: Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Business in a Finite World (Policy brief) (Policy brief - 2012)

• Metals in a Low-Carbon Economy: Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Business in a Finite World (Project report - 2012)

• Rethinking Development Factsheet (Fact sheet - 2011)

• Sustainable Recovery and Resilience Building Strategies in the Tourism Industry of Khao Lak, Patong Beach and Phi Phi Don (Policy brief - 2009)

• Cyclone Nargis: What are the Lessons from the 2004 Tsunami for Myanmar's Recovery? (Paper - 2008)

• Bayesian methods for livelihood, water and poverty analysis (Proceedings - 2008)

• The Bayesian Methods for Livelihood, Water and Poverty Analysis (Proceedings - 2008)

• Sustaining Tonle Sap: an assessment of development challenges facing the Great Lake (Report - 2008)

• GEO-4 Chapter 2: Atmosphere (Book chapter - 2007)

• Resilient Ecosystems, Healthy Communities: Human Health and Sustainable Ecosystems after the Tsunami (Journal article - 2006)

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Projects

• 3C - Resource scarcity

  
  

• CPWF L1 - Targetting and Out-scaling in the Limpopo Basin

  
  

• Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) V1 - Targeting and Scaling Out in the Volta Basin

  
  

• Sustainable Mekong Research Network (Sumernet, Phase II)

  
  

• Sustainable Mekong Research Network Programme (Sumernet)

  
  

• Managing pollution from small- and medium-scale industries in Bangladesh

  
  

• Sustainable Recovery and Resilience Building in the Tsunami Affected Region