APrf Jungho Suh

Research Interests

Agricultural Economics Community Ecology Comparative Economic Systems Cross-Sectional Analysis Decision Making Decision Support and Group Support Systems Development Studies Ecological Economics Ecology Economic Geography Environment and Resource Economics Environment Policy Environmental Philosophy Environmental Sociology Human Geography Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy of Religion Recreation, Leisure and Tourism Geography Religion and Society Rural Management Rural Sociology Sociology Studies of Asian Society Tourism Tourism Economics Tourism Policy Tourist Behaviour and Visitor Experience

APrf Jungho Suh

Senior Lecturer

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Jungho Suh has a strong research interest in permaculture and ecovillages. In 2012, he obtained a Permaculture Design Certificate at the Food Forest, a permaculture farm in Adelaide, South Australia. Out of his research interest in the ecovillage movement, Jungho has examined small-scale yet collective actions in mitigating global warming, reducing climate change vulnerability, and enhancing social sustainability. He has visited various ecovillages around the world, including Crystal Waters in Queensland, Auroville in Tamil Nadu, Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland, and Ecovillage at Ithaca in New York.

  • Permaculture and ecovillages
  • Agritourism
  • Community-based natural resource management in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Economic valuation of non-market environmental goods and services
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • Community gardening

Date Position Institution name
2026 - ongoing Associate Professor Adelaide University
2020 - 2025 Senior Lecturer The University of Adelaide
2006 - 2019 Lecturer The University of Adelaide
2002 - 2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow The University of Queensland

Date Institution name Country Title
2002 The University of Queensland Australia PhD
1991 The Academy of Korean Studies South Korea MA
1988 Dongguk University South Korea BEcon

Year Citation
2026 Namalwa, S., Tan, Y., & Suh, J. (2026). Cultivating Resilience in the Informal City: A Systematic Review of Urban Agriculture's Multidimensional Outcomes in Slum Contexts. Geography Compass, 20(3).
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2025 Amegavi, G. B., Nursey-Bray, M., & Suh, J. (2025). Advancing social equity in urban resilience planning: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-21.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3
2025 Thwaites, H. J., Suh, J., Coote, G. M., Nursey-Bray, M., Cavagnaro, T. R., & Salomon, M. J. (2025). Urban food forests: Seeing the fruit for the trees - A systematic quantitative literature review and emerging research gaps. Journal of Cleaner Production, 501, 13 pages.
DOI Scopus5 WoS6
2025 Nand, M. M., Bardsley, D. K., & Suh, J. (2025). Climate change loss and damage from droughts: key insights from Fiji's sugar industry. Local Environment, 30(6), 778-794.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2024 Addai, G., Suh, J., Bardsley, D., Robinson, G., & Guodaar, L. (2024). Exploring sustainable development within rural regions in Ghana: A rural web approach. Sustainable Development, 32(4), 3890-3907.
DOI Scopus14 WoS8
2024 Suh, J., & Graham, A. (2024). Community building through collaborative food production and consumption: A case study of Grow Free in South Australia. Community Development, 55(4), 599-614.
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2024 Suh, J. (2024). Buddhism-based Intentional Communities Becoming Ecovillages: A Case of Sisa Asoke in Thailand. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 6(1), 10-26.
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2024 Amegavi, G. B., Nursey-Bray, M., & Suh, J. (2024). Exploring the realities of urban resilience: Practitioners’ perspectives. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103, 104313-1-104313-12.
DOI Scopus20 WoS19
2024 Cattonar, L., Suh, J., & Nursey-Bray, M. (2024). Coal dust pollution in regional Australian coal mining towns: Social License to Operate and community resistance. Geoforum, 151, 104008.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2023 Suh, J. (2023). Buddhism, tourism, and development in the trans-Himalayan Buddhist region: Three decades after Ancient Futures (Norberg-Hodge, 1991). International Journal of Tourism Policy, 13(3), 219-229.
DOI Scopus2
2023 Minja, G., Suh, J., & Tan, Y. (2023). Joint venture wildlife management of the Loliondo Game Controlled Area in Tanzania: A multi-criteria analysis. South African Geographical Journal, 105(3), 346-364.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2023 Nand, M. M., Bardsley, D. K., & Suh, J. (2023). Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry. Local Environment, 28(6), 768-783.
DOI Scopus8 WoS6
2023 Nand, M., Bardsley, D., & Suh, J. (2023). Addressing unavoidable climate change loss and damage: a case study from Fiji's sugar industry. Climatic Change, 176(2), 21-1-21-20.
DOI Scopus16 WoS14
2022 Suh, J., Auberson, L., & Ede, S. (2022). Connected backyard gardening as a platform for suburban community building in Adelaide, Australia. Community Development, 53(1), 21-38.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2021 Suh, J. (2021). Buddhist-Led Rural Community Rebuilding in the Republic of Korea from the Indra’s Net Perspective. Sustainability, 13(16), 9328-1-9328-14.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2021 Guodaar, L., Bardsley, D. K., & Suh, J. (2021). Integrating local perceptions with scientific evidence to understand climate change variability in northern Ghana: A mixed-methods approach. Applied Geography, 130, 102440-1-102440-12.
DOI Scopus60 WoS52
2021 Guodaar, L., Bardsley, D. K., & Suh, J. (2021). Indigenous adaptation to climate change risks in northern Ghana. Climatic Change, 166(1-2), 24-1-24-20.
DOI Scopus26 WoS23
2020 Suh, J. (2020). The Confucian doctrine of the Mean, the optimality principle, and social harmony. Society and Economy, 42(1), 59-73.
DOI Scopus18
2019 Suh, J. (2019). A comparative analysis of sustainability views across the Saemaul Movement in South Korea and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 26, 1-32.
Scopus5
2019 Suh, J. (2019). Environmental characteristics of urban-rural farming migrants in the Republic of Korea and their significance for rural sustainability. Local Environment, 24(8), 663-677.
DOI Scopus8 WoS9
2018 Suh, J. (2018). Agriculture and sustainable communities: Reflections from a comparative case study. Community Development, 49(1), 34-49.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7
2015 Suh, J. (2015). Community-based organic agriculture in the Philippines. Outlook on Agriculture, 44(4), 291-296.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8
2015 Suh, J. (2015). An institutional and policy framework to foster integrated rice-duck farming in Asian developing countries. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 13(4), 294-307.
DOI Scopus22 WoS20
2015 Suh, J. (2015). Communitarian cooperative organic rice farming in Hongdong District, South Korea. Journal of Rural Studies, 37, 29-37.
DOI Scopus30 WoS23
2014 Suh, J. (2014). Theory and reality of integrated rice-duck farming in Asian developing countries: a systematic review and SWOT analysis. Agricultural Systems, 125, 74-81.
DOI Scopus64 WoS51
2014 Suh, J. (2014). Towards sustainable agricultural stewardship: evolution and future directions of the permaculture concept. Environmental Values, 23(1), 75-98.
DOI Scopus27
2014 Suh, J. (2014). The role of the forestry industry for the success of community forestry: a comparative input-output analysis across India and the Philippines. Southern Forests, 76(1), 29-36.
DOI Scopus7
2013 Suh, J. (2013). Does Buddhism have much to offer in terms of reduction in global CO₂ emissions? A panel data analysis. Society and Economy, 35(2), 209-225.
DOI Scopus2
2012 Suh, J. (2012). Community-based forest management and the forestry industries in the Philippines and India: A comparative inter-industry analysis. The Empirical Economics Letters, 11(10), 1-8.
2012 Suh, J. (2012). The past and future of community-based forest management in the Philippines. Philippine Studies, 60(4), 489-511.
DOI Scopus8 WoS4
2011 Suh, J., Lwanga, R., Harrison, S., & Herbohn, J. (2011). Visitors' attitudes towards and willingness-to-pay for hypothetical hoop pine plantations on the pastoral southern Atherton Tablelands, Australia. Small-Scale Forestry, 10(3), 319-338.
DOI Scopus1
2008 Robinson, J., Clouston, B., Suh, J., & Chaloupka, M. (2008). Are citizens' juries a useful tool for assessing environmental value?. Environmental Conservation, 35(4), 351-360.
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2008 Bonham, J., & Suh, J. (2008). Pedalling the city: intra-urban differences in cycling for the journey-to-work. Road and Transport Research, 17(4), 25-40.
Scopus11 WoS10
2006 Suh, J., & Harrison, S. (2006). Pure altruism, consumer behaviour and choice modeling. Asian Economic Journal, 20(2), 173-190.
DOI Scopus3
2006 Emtage, N., Suh, J., Cedamon, E., Harrison, S., & Herbohn, J. (2006). Promoting smallholder forestry as a poverty alleviation measure in the Phillipines: A study focused on Leyte Province. Indian Development Review, 4(2), 385-405.
2005 Emtage, N., & Suh, J. (2005). Variations in socioeconomic characteristics, farming assets and livelihood systems of Leyte rural households. Annals of Tropical Research, 27(1), 35-54.
2005 Suh, J., & Emtage, N. (2005). Identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the community-based forest management program. Annals of Tropical Research, 27(1), 55-66.
2004 Xu, J., Zhao, Y., & Suh, J. (2004). Community forestry for poverty alleviation in China with reference to Huoshan County, Anhui Province. Small-Scale Forestry, 3(3), 385-400.
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2004 Harrison, S., & Suh, J. (2004). Progress and prospects of community forestry in developing and developed countries. Small-Scale Forestry, 3(3), 287-302.
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2004 Emtage, N., & Suh, J. (2004). Socio-economic factors affecting smallholder tree planting and management intentions in leyte province the philippines. Small-Scale Forestry, 3(2), 257-270.
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2004 Suh, J. (2004). Regulatory failure in the management of South Korea's national parks. Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, 8(1), 133-151.
2002 Suh, J. (2002). Incompatibility of hiking and skiing in the Mt Togyu National Park in Korea: an implication for the National Park Management. Journal of Tourism, 5(1), 41-66.

Year Citation
2025 Minja, G. S., Suh, J., & Tan, Y. (2025). Land-use Conflicts and an Alternative Wildlife Management Option for the Loliondo Game-controlled Area, Tanzania: Insights From a Community Survey. In Tourism Case Studies Middle East North Africa Mena and Sub Saharan Africa Ssa Regions (pp. 30-38).
2024 Cattonar, L., Suh, J., & Nursey-Bray, M. (2024). Exploring Coal Dust Pollution and Social Acceptance in Singleton, New South Wales: Implications for the Social License to Operate through Risk Society Theory. In G. Wood, J. Górski, & G. Mete (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Social License to Operate and Energy Transitions (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-20). Palgrave.
DOI
2023 Suh, J. (2023). Permaculture principles, practices, and environmentalism. In A. Iqbal, M. Iqbal, M. Alamzeb, S. Mehzhen, X. Zhang, M. Arif, . . . E. Lichtfouse (Eds.), Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 58: Phosphorus Use Efficiency for Sustainable Agriculture (pp. 1-23). Cham: Springer.
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2023 Suh, J. (2023). Are Generation Zers Homo vians, Phono sapiens, and Homo ecologicus? Intergenerational comparison with a reference to the Republic of Korea. In S. Seyfi, M. Hall, & M. Strzelecka (Eds.), Gen Z, Tourism and Sustainable Consumption: The Most Sustainable Generation Ever? (pp. 46-57). Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge.
DOI Scopus1
2018 Suh, J. (2018). Sustainable agriculture in the Republic of Korea. In E. Lichtfouse (Ed.), Sustainable Agriculture Reviews (Vol. 27, pp. 193-211). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
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2016 Suh, J. (2016). Towards sustainable agricultural stewardship: Evolution and future directions of the permaculture concept. In S. Johnson (Ed.), Farming (Vol. 6, 1 ed., pp. 373-394). Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press.
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2015 Suh, J. (2015). Economics of everyday cycling and cycling facilities. In J. Bonham, & M. Johnson (Eds.), Cycling Futures (pp. 107-130). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
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2009 Suh, J., Lwanga, R., Harrison, S., & Herbohn, J. (2009). Visitors’ attitudes towards hypothetical hoop pine plantations on the pastoral southern Atherton Tablelands, Australia. In E. Saratsi, M. Burgi, K. Johann, D. Kirby, C. Moreno, & C. Watkins (Eds.), Woodland Cultures in Time and Space : tales from the past, messages for the future (pp. 323-329). Athens: Embryo.
DOI
2007 Emtage, N., Suh, J., Cedamon, E., Harrison, S., & Herbohn, J. (2007). Promoting smallholder forestry as a poverty alleviation measure in the Philippines: A study focused on Leyte Province. In C. Tisdell (Ed.), Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and Social Disadvantage: Analysis, Case Study and Policies (Vol. 3, pp. 904-924). New Delhi: Serials.
2005 Harrison, S., Herbohn, J., Smorfitt, D., & Suh, J. (2005). Economic issues and lessons arising from the community rainforest reforestation program. In P. Erskine, D. Lamb, & M. Bristow (Eds.), Reforestation in the tropics and subtropics of Australia using rainforest tree species (pp. 245-261). Barton, A.C.T: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation.
2004 Harrison, S., Herbohn, J., Killin, D., Suh, J., & Smorfitt, D. (2004). Timber marketing in a revitalised north Queensland forest industry: overview of major issues. In J. Suh, D. Smorfitt, S. Harrison, & J. Herbohn (Eds.), Marketing of farm-grown timber in tropical North Queensland (pp. 1-7). Brisbane, Australia: CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology & Management.

Year Citation
2012 Suh, J. (2012). A SWOT analysis of integrated rice-duck farming in Asian developing countries. In Proceedings of the International conference on food and agricultural engineering and International Multi-conference on chemical, ecological and biological sciences (pp. 166-170). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: International Scientific Academy of Engineering & Technology.
2006 Suh, J., Lwanga, R., Harrison, S., & Herbohn, J. (2006). Visitor attitudes to a proposed hoop pine plantation establishment on the Southern Atherton tablelands. In S. Harrison, & J. Herbohn (Eds.), Sustainable Forest Industry Development inTropical North Queensland Workshop proceedings (pp. 135-146). Australia: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management.
2005 Harrison, S., Suh, J., Mangaoang, E., Bulayog, S., & Herbohn, J. (2005). Modelling timber supply and demand associated with existing tree farms within Leyte including external markets. In J. Suh, S. Harrison, J. Herbohn, E. Mangaoang, & J. Vanclay (Eds.), ACIAR Smallholder Forestry Project - Improving Financial Returns to Smallholder Tree Farmers in the Philippines (pp. 87-94). Australia: University of Queensland.
2004 Suh, J., Killin, D., & Harrison, S. (2004). The role of grower co-operatives in the marketing of farm-grown timber in north Queensland. In J. Suh, D. Smorfitt, S. Harrison, & J. Herbohn (Eds.), Marketing of Farm-grown Timber in Tropical North Queensland (pp. 89-102). Cairns: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management.

Year Citation
2018 Suh, J. (2018). Permacultural environmentalism and practices. Poster session presented at the meeting of Present Environment and Sustainable Development International Symposium 2018. Iasi, Romania.
2016 Suh, J. (2016). A brief history of organic agriculture and rural community in South Korea. Poster session presented at the meeting of International Seminar on Emerging Trends in Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.
2015 Suh, J. (2015). A tale of two rural development movements: Saemaul in South Korea and Sarvodaya Shramadana in Sri Lanka. Poster session presented at the meeting of 9th International Convention of Asian Scholars. Adelaide, Australia.
2014 Suh, J. (2014). Concepts and principles in neoclassical economics: discovery of human nature or making of norms. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2nd International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Asian Regional Conference.
2014 Suh, J. (2014). Large-scale organic rice farming by smallholder farmers in Hongdong District, South Korea. Poster session presented at the meeting of International Food Studies Conference 2014. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
2013 Suh, J. (2013). Future strategies to foster integrated rice-duck farming in Asian developing countries. Poster session presented at the meeting of 1st International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2012 Suh, J. (2012). A SWOT analysis of integrated rice-duck farming in Asian developing countries. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the International Conference on Food and Agricultural Engineering. Kuala Lumpur.
2005 Suh, J., & Emtage, N. (2005). Identifying typology of households based on the characteristics of their farming land and livelihood systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of ACIAR Smallholder Forestry Project - Improving Financial Returns to Smallholder Tree Farmers in the Philippines, 15-17 February, 2005, Ormoc City, the Philippines. Ormoc City, the Philippines.

Erasmus+ Staff Teaching Mobility Grant 2018, Alexsandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

Korean Studies Grants Scheme 2018, The Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea 

Korean Studies Grants Scheme 2023, The Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea 

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  • GEOG 2134 Resource Scarcity and Allocation
  • GEOG 3010 Tourism and Environment
  • GEOG 7004 Environmental Economics and Policy

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Depletion of Urban Green Spaces using Land-Use Land-Cover Classification System in Slum Dwelling Areas: A Case of Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Silva Mgunda Namalwa
2025 Co-Supervisor A more effective use of the mining industry value chain and effective Strategies for sustainable local development: Concepts for a framework and Policy approach Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Namatai Arcdon Ruswa
2025 Co-Supervisor Knowledge-networks and decision-making in traditional and modern farming methods: Insights from South Asian production systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Pragya Timsina
2025 Principal Supervisor Tourism and Transport Couplet: The Role of Mobility Experience in Shaping Tourist Destination Image Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Eniola Judah Ayanlowo
2025 Co-Supervisor A more effective use of the mining industry value chain and effective Strategies for sustainable local development: Concepts for a framework and Policy approach Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Namatai Arcdon Ruswa
2025 Co-Supervisor Knowledge-networks and decision-making in traditional and modern farming methods: Insights from South Asian production systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Pragya Timsina
2025 Principal Supervisor Tourism and Transport Couplet: The Role of Mobility Experience in Shaping Tourist Destination Image Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Eniola Judah Ayanlowo
2025 Co-Supervisor Depletion of Urban Green Spaces using Land-Use Land-Cover Classification System in Slum Dwelling Areas: A Case of Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Silva Mgunda Namalwa
2023 Principal Supervisor The rationales and prospects for, and impediments to, the extension of Permaculture as a repopulation and revegetation strategy in regional and rural Australia Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Greg Mark Shepherd

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Coal Dust Risks, Community Disempowerment, and Unwillingness to Pay for a Hypothetical Coal Dust Reduction: Paradoxical Tensions in Coal-Dependent Regional Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Laura Anne Cattonar
2019 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Sustainable Development and Regenerative Tourism in Viticultural Regions: Insights from McLaren Vale, South Australia and Margaret River, Western Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Rebecca Eve Pearson
2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Resilience Planning to Climate Change in Ghana: Community Participation and Social Equity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr George Babington Amegavi
2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Effects of Urban Periodic Markets on Rural Development in Ghana: A Rural Web Analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Godfred Addai
2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Climate change, Indigenous knowledge and food security in northern Ghana Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Lawrence Guodaar
2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Migration between Australia and Singapore in the 21st Century: Settlement Experiences and Transnational Issues Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Hannah Barbour
2018 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Policy options for climate change loss and damage: A case study from Fijian agriculture Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Moleen Monita Nand
2017 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Exploration and Evaluation of the Alternative Wildlife Management Options for the Loliondo Game Controlled Area in Tanzania: Multi-criteria Analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gileard Sifueli Minja
2015 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Contemporary migration between Malaysia and Australia: Transnational and settlement experiences Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Christina Ken Yin Yeo
2015 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Sustaining Off-Reserve Forests in Ghana: A Game-Theoretic Approach Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Emmanuel Otutei
2007 - 2010 Co-Supervisor The Social and Economic Impacts of a Logging Access Road: A Case Study of Marudi Town, Sarawak, Malaysia Master of Arts Master Full Time Mr Bemen Win Keong Wong
2007 - 2008 Co-Supervisor Planning for Holistic Sustainability: A Study of the 'Process' in Kerala (India) and Sweden Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Vigya Sharma

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2004 - ongoing Board Member Small-Scale Forestry US Forest Service United States

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