Current Research
The Gobi Framework project develops a model for sustainable infrastructure development to promote inclusive social and economic development and sustainable environments in the context of Chinese investment initiatives in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Across Asia China's £1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is set to transform societies, economies and landscapes through infrastructure megaprojects. The project region has fragile environments, a lack of water, extreme geography (deserts, mountains) and temperature (+40C to -45C) that are matched with limited state capacity, poverty, rural isolation and ex-Soviet structures and thought. In this context responsibility, cooperation and transparency are key themes as we work to scale up a pioneering dispute resolution model from Mongolia to Central Asia and beyond.

Troy works with the University of Central Asia, Mongolian Institute of Geography, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Kazakh National University, Mongolian National University, the University of Nagoya and Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan. He teaches on Water and Society in the Middle East, supervises dissertations, is the UK member of the EU's Drylands Facing Change initiative and organises the Oxford Desert Conference series (next in 2020).