Community Behaviour on the Conservation of Natural Resources: A case study in the Green Corridor of Vietnam - Softcover

Dung, Nguyen Viet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3846516155 ISBN 13: 9783846516157

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This book attempts to present understandings of community behaviour affecting natural resources based on research conducted by the author in the Green Corridor – a forest landscape of the highest global conservation importance in Thua Thien Hue province of Vietnam. Under an interdisciplinary approach, community behaviour, including livelihood-based decisions, practices, and actions, is recognised as the interface between ecosystem and social system, in which each behaviour is motivated or influenced by different ecological and social factors. The research was conducted in Thuong Nhat, a commune situated in the Green Corridor, through a three step participatory social assessment: step 1: assessing the situation to understand ecological and social contexts of the community and local conservation problems; step 2: identifying critical behaviours; and step 3: identifying key influential factors of critical behaviours. Based on such findings, the research has proposed a framework comprising specific actions, though are relevant to change those critical behaviour of Thuong Nhat’s community towards sustainable resource use and conservation.

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About the Author

Nguyen Viet Dung, Program Director in Policy and Education for PanNature in Vietnam since 2006, studied environmental education in the University of Strathclyde (Scotland,1999), and obtained a M.Sc in Human Ecology from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium,2005). He is interested in policy research and advocacy for natural resources governance.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3846516155
• ISBN 13: 9783846516157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144