Reforesting "bare hills" in Vietnam: Social and environmental consequences of the 5 million hectare reforestation program

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 325-333

  McElwee, Pamela ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST PRODUCT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND CLASSIFICATION; PLANTATION; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STATE ROLE;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREE; VIET NAM; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; HUMANS; OWNERSHIP; POVERTY; PRIVATE SECTOR; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREES; VIETNAM;

VIET NAM;

EID: 77649245453     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/08-R-520.1     Document Type: Article

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73. Funding for research in Ha Tinh in 2000-2001 was generously provided by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. The author would like to thank her research sponsor in Vietnam, the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies of Vietnam National University, and in particular Dr. Vo Quy, Dr. Truong Quang Hoc, and Vo Thanh Giang, for their support of this research project. Dr. Le Tran Chan's assistance in identifying specimens is gratefully acknowledged. The author would like to thank Dr. Michael Dove, Dr. Eric Worby, and Dr. Jim Scott for providing helpful comments on this paper when it was previously a dissertation chapter.
74. First submitted 1 May 2008. Accepted for publication 22 December 2008.