Redefining Diversity & Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Asia, Volume 2. Upland Natural Resources and Social Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam

✍ Scribed by Ganesh Shivakoti, Mai Van Thanh, Tran Duc Vien, Stephen J Leisz

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Southeast Asia, Volumes 1-4 brings together scientific research and policy issues across various topographical areas in Asia to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues facing the region.

Upland Natural Resources and Social Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam, Volume 2, provides chapters on natural resource management in northern Vietnam tied together by the concept that participatory local involvement is needed in all aspects of natural resource management. The volume examines planning for climate change, managing forestland, alleviating food shortages, living with biodiversity, and assessing the development projects and policies being implemented. Without the involvement of local communities, households, and ultimately individual people, the needed action will not be effectively taken.

Upland Natural Resources and Social Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam, Volume 2, goes beyond just Northern Vietnam to address the issue of transboundary natural resource management―an issue that Vietnam is dealing with in its relations with northern neighbor, China, and western neighbor, Laos―as well as the transboundary water governance between Pakistan and India in south Asia, with the hope that some of the lessons learned may one day be useful in the case of Vietnam and its neighbors.

• Provides a multi-disciplinary case study into a complex environmental situation involving government institutions, planning, and practices, using northern Vietnam as the focus
• Covers the issues of natural resource management and biodiversity in depth using international case studies
• Provides examples of measuring the potential climate change impacts on food security in agricultural regions
• Examines topics such as planning for climate change, managing forestland, alleviating food shortages, living with biodiversity, and assessing development projects and policies

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Copyright,Contributors,Words From Book Editors,Foreword,PrefaceEntitled to full textI: IntroductionChapter 1 - Toward Transforming the Approach to Natural Resource Management in Northern Vietnam, Pages 3-10, S.J. Leisz, M.V. Thanh, T.D. Vien
Chapter 2 - Responding to Climate Change in the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector in Vietnam, Pages 13-25, P.T. Dung, S. Sharma
Chapter 3 - Assessing and Calculating a Climate Change Vulnerability Index for Agriculture Production in the Red River Delta, Vietnam, Pages 27-40, H.H. Duong, T. Thuc, L. Ribbe
Chapter 4 - Cash-Based Versus Water-Based Payment for Environmental Services in the Uplands of Northern Vietnam: Potential Farmers’ Participation Using Farm Modeling, Pages 43-62, D. Jourdain, E. Boere, M. van den Berg, D.D. Quang, C.P. Thanh, F. Affholder
Chapter 5 - A Voluntary Model of Payment for Environmental Services: Lessons From Ba Be District, Bac Kan Province of Vietnam, Pages 63-74, T.D. Vien, C.T. Son, N.T.T. Dung, N.T. Lam
Chapter 6 - Land-Cover and Land-Use Transitions in Northern Vietnam From the Early 1990s to 2012, Pages 77-86, S.J. Leisz
Chapter 7 - The Role of Land-Use Planning on Socioeconomic Development in Mai Chau District, Vietnam, Pages 87-111, D.V. Nha
Chapter 8 - Coping Mechanisms of the Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam’s Uplands as Responses to Food Shortages, Pages 115-136, V.X. Tinh
Chapter 9 - Home Gardens in the Composite Swiddening Farming System of the Da Bac Tay Ethnic Minority in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region, Pages 137-154, N.T. Lam, N.H. Duong
Chapter 10 - How Agricultural Research for Development Can Make a Change: Assessing Livelihood Impacts in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam, Pages 155-176, N.H. Nhuan, E. van de Fliert, O. Nicetic
Chapter 11 - Changes in the Nature of the Cat Ba Forest Social-Ecological Systems, Pages 177-192, A.T.T. Nguyen, C. Jacobson, H. Ross
Chapter 12 - Decentralization in Forest Management in Vietnam’s Uplands: Case Studies of the Kho Mu and Thai Ethnic Community, Pages 195-206, T.D. Vien, M.V. Thanh
Chapter 13 - Institutions for Governance of Transboundary Water Commons: The Case of the Indus Basin, Pages 207-223, M.A. Kamran, A. Aijaz, G. Shivakoti
Chapter 14 - A System Dynamics Approach for Integrated Natural Resources Management, Pages 227-244, M.V. Thanh
Chapter 15 - Navigating Complexities and Management Prospects of Natural Resources in Northern Vietnam, Pages 245-256, S. Sharma, G. Shivakoti, M.V. Thanh, S.J. Leisz
Index, Pages 257-263

✦ Subjects

Natural resources;Vietnam;Management;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS;Real Estate;General;Natural resources;Management;Vietnam