Peer reviewed articles and research reports

Smith, W., Pellini, K., Wen, S.Q., Soni, T. (2025). Beyond inclusion: Empowering women and girls for smarter, fairer Nature-based Solutions to climate change. Plan International Australia, Melbourne.

Yanquiling, R. S., Dressler, W., & Smith, W. (2025). Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines. Journal of Historical Geography.

Alejandria, M. C., Grace, R., Gloria Cajilig, P., & Smith, W. (2024). Guest editorial: Complex disasters, complex solutions: advancing inclusive governance and decolonization in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 24(3), 167-170.

Dressler, W and Smith, W. (2023) Blood, timber and plantations: the violence of enclosing lives and livelihoods in the Philippines. The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Smith, W. (2022). Climates of Control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines. Political Geography.

Smith, W. (2022) Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation. Ambio

Smith, W., Neale, T., & Weir, J. K. (2021). Persuasion without policies: The work of reviving Indigenous peoples’ fire management in southern Australia. Geoforum.

Smith, W. (2020). Beyond Loving Nature: Affective Conservation and Human-pig Violence in the Philippines. Ethnos.

Dressler, W. H., Smith, W., Kull, C. A., Carmenta, R., & Pulhin, J. M. (2020). Recalibrating burdens of blame: Anti-swidden politics and green governance in the Philippine Uplands. Geoforum.

Smith, W. and Dressler, W. (2020). Forged in flames: Indigeneity, forest fire and geographies of blame in the Philippines. Postcolonial Studies.

Neale, T., Zahara, A., and Smith, W. (2019). An eternal flame: The elemental governance of wildfire’s past, present and future. Cultural Studies Review.

Smith, W. and Dressler, W. (2019). Governing vulnerability: The biopolitics of conservation and climate in upland Southeast Asia. Political Geography.

Smith, W. (2019). Drought, Food Insecurity, and Cultures of Hunger in the Philippines. In Disaster Archipelago: Locating Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines.

Smith, W. (2018). Weather from incest: The politics of indigenous climate change knowledge on Palawan Island, the Philippines. The Australian Journal of Anthropology.

Dressler, W, Smith, W., and Montefrio, M. J. (2018). Ungovernable? The vital natures of swidden assemblages in an upland frontier. Journal of Rural Studies.

Smith, W., and Dressler, W. (2017). Rooted in Place? The coproduction of knowledge and space in agroforestry assemblages. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Dressler, W., McDermott, M., Smith, W., & Pulhin, J. (2012). REDD policy impacts on indigenous property rights regimes on Palawan Island, The Philippines. Human Ecology.