Effects of Development and Reforestation on Agrarian Livelihoods in Upland Vietnam

Effects of Development and Reforestation on Agrarian Livelihoods in Upland Vietnam
Author: Ann Elizabeth Macfadyen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

This research highlighted the role everyday politics emerging from local inequalities play in intra-hamlet livelihood resilience. Acacia and cassava provide finite benefits to specific households, yet they cause diffuse environmental risks across the hamlets, placing the wellbeing of less-well off families at risk. People will assume authority over their own circumstances, even continuing illicit strategies as part of their efforts to manage barriers to livelihood sustainability and improvement in the context of the changing climate.

Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas

Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas
Author: Holger L. Fröhlich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 364233377X

This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. Having three objectives the book first aims to give an interdisciplinary account of the drivers, consequences and challenges of ongoing changes in mountainous areas of Southeast Asia. Second, the book describes how innovation processes can contribute to addressing these challenges and third, how knowledge creation to support change in policies and institutions can assist in sustainably develop mountain areas and people’s livelihoods.

Upland Transformations in Vietnam

Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Author: Thomas Sikor
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789971695149

Originated from a workshop on "Montane choices and outcomes, contemporary transformations of Vietnam's uplands", held in Hanoi in January 2007.

An Upland Community in Transition

An Upland Community in Transition
Author: Agnes C. Rola
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814345156

All over Southeast Asia, rural communities are in transition to a sustainable status. This book explores how an environmentally fragile upland community in rural Philippines coped with and responded to economic and environmental tensions brought about by a globalized economy and decentralization. This in turn gave rise to local power especially in the management of natural resources.

Living with Environmental Change

Living with Environmental Change
Author: W. Neil Adger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134604203

Vietnam and the neighbouring countries of Southeast Asia face diverse challenges created by the rapid evolution of their social, economic and environmental systems and resources. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the Vietnamese situation, identifying the factors shaping social vulnerability and resilience to environmental change and considering prospects for sustainable development.

Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources

Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1552502309

This book synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of ""good practice"" in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy. There are 11 case studies featured, from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, V.

Frontier Livelihoods

Frontier Livelihoods
Author: Sarah Turner
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 029580596X

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little. The product of wide-ranging research over many years, Frontier Livelihoods bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by Hmong communities in Vietnam and in China’s Yunnan Province. It covers the reactions to state modernization projects among this ethnic group in two separate national jurisdictions and contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border relationships between ethnic minorities in the borderlands of China and its neighbors and in Southeast Asia more broadly.

Environment, Livelihoods, and Local Institutions

Environment, Livelihoods, and Local Institutions
Author: Mairi Kristina Dupar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2002
Genre: Decentralization in government
ISBN:

An analysis of how decentralization reforms are changing local institutions for natural resource management in mainland Southeast Asia. The focus is on mountainous areas where impoverished populations struggle to preserve meagre resources, remaining biodiversity and food security.