Overview
- First book-length text to deal with mangrove forests and livelihoods to focus on relationship between people and their environment and relationships among different resource stakeholder groups
- Explores how women and men have used and managed resources as they experienced environmental degradation and coped with government-imposed regulations on their use of these resources
- Argues that mangrove resource use cannot be understood without a concern for gender
- Demonstrates that local-level studies can contribute to a better conceptual understanding of both causes and consequences of agrarian change
Part of the book series: MARE Publication Series (MARE, volume 24)
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About this book
This book presents a historical and ethnographic study of changing mangrove management in northern Vietnam over the past 100 years, grounded in a case study in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. The book shows that three primary socio-economic dynamics have affected mangroves: enclosure movements that have restricted access by different user communities over time, such as the exclusion of women; changing valuation of mangroves and their products and services; and social and class differentiation caused by privatization of once common resources. The result of these pressures have been erosions of norms, rules, and collective action to protect and nurture mangroves, leading to widespread loss of coastal forests. Sustainable mangrove management will require attention to these dynamics to address current-day land conflicts. The book will be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners, and academics and students in forest policy, management and governance; rural livelihoods;and globalization and agrarian change.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Hue Le is senior researcher and lecturer from the VNU - Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (CRES), Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Dr. Le’s research focuses on natural resource management, land tenure, and gender. Her scholarship examines the differentiating effects of the macro policy and investigates how social differentiation and power relations affect the way in which different classes of people use the resources and the income that each class earns from forest-related resources.
Dr. Le received her MA in Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University and her PhD in Agriculture and Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands. From February to August 2012, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. From October to November 2016, she was a visiting scholar at York Centre for Asian Research, York University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Competing for Land, Mangroves and Marine Resources in Coastal Vietnam
Authors: Hue Le
Series Title: MARE Publication Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2109-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2107-1Published: 31 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-2109-5Published: 30 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2212-6260
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6279
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 171
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Social Sciences, general