Environmental change and policy: natural resource access in Vietnam's ethnic communities

The paper examines the impact of environmental policies on ethnic minorities in the Dong Phuc commune of Vietnam, finding that tenure and environmental policies often reinforce pre-existing ethnic inequalities and use conservation discourses to justify the appropriation of natural resources.

• Environmental and tenure policies in the studied region have transformed socio-natural configurations and reinforced existing inequalities between different ethnic groups.
• Local perceptions that forest protection increases water availability have been used to justify the appropriation of natural resources for conservation purposes and have shifted community attitudes toward their own limited resource access.
• While not a direct result of environmental demarcation policies, women's increasing economic influence has started to change the power structures governing land access and control.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Environmental change and policy: natural resource access in Vietnam's ethnic communities. https://www.sei.org/publications/environmental-change-policy-natural-resource-access-vietnam-ethnic-communities/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Environmental change and policy: natural resource access in Vietnam's ethnic communities. 2020. https://www.sei.org/publications/environmental-change-policy-natural-resource-access-vietnam-ethnic-communities/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020environmental, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Environmental change and policy: natural resource access in Vietnam's ethnic communities}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/environmental-change-policy-natural-resource-access-vietnam-ethnic-communities/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }