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

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 focusCovers the issues of natural resource management and biodiversity in depth using international case studiesProvides examples of measuring the potential climate change impacts on food security in agricultural regionsExamines topics such as planning for climate change, managing forestland, alleviating food shortages, living with biodiversity, and assessing development projects and policies

I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Toward Transforming the Approach to Natural Resource Management in Northern Vietnam

II: Climate Change

Chapter 2: Responding to Climate Change in the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector in Vietnam

Chapter 3: Assessing and Calculating a Climate Change Vulnerability Index for Agriculture Production in the Red River Delta, Vietnam

III: Payment From Ecosystem Services

Chapter 4: Cash-Based Versus Water-Based Payment for Environmental Services in the Uplands of Northern Vietnam: Potential Farmers’ Participation Using Farm Modeling

Chapter 5: A Voluntary Model of Payment for Environmental Services: Lessons From Ba Be District, Bac Kan Province of Vietnam

IV: Land-Use Planning

Chapter 6: Land-Cover and Land-Use Transitions in Northern Vietnam From the Early 1990s to 2012

Chapter 7: The Role of Land-Use Planning on Socioeconomic Development in Mai Chau District, Vietnam

V: Adaptive Livelihood in Response to Change

Chapter 8: Coping Mechanisms of the Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam’s Uplands as Responses to Food Shortages

Chapter 9: Home Gardens in the Composite Swiddening Farming System of the Da Bac Tay Ethnic Minority in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region

Chapter 10: How Agricultural Research for Development Can Make a Change: Assessing Livelihood Impacts in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam

Chapter 11: Changes in the Nature of the Cat Ba Forest Social-Ecological Systems

VI: Decentralization

Chapter 12: Decentralization in Forest Management in Vietnam’s Uplands: Case Studies of the Kho Mu and Thai Ethnic Community

Chapter 13: Institutions for Governance of Transboundary Water Commons: The Case of the Indus Basin

VII: New Way of Thinking to Managing Complex Natural Resource System

Chapter 14: A System Dynamics Approach for Integrated Natural Resources Management

Chapter 15: Navigating Complexities and Management Prospects of Natural Resources in Northern Vietnam