Livelihood Pathways of Indigenous People in Vietnam’s Central Highlands (eBook)

Exploring Land-Use Change

Huỳnh Anh Chi Thái (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
XIII, 157 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-71171-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highlands recent decades since the country's reunification in 1975.

The first empirical section sheds light on multiple external conditions (policy reforms, population trends, and market forces) exposed onto local people. The role of human and social capital is examined again in a specific livelihood of community-based tourism to testify the resilience level of local people when coping with constraints. The study concludes with an outlook on implications of development processed which still places agriculture at the primary position livelihood, and pays attention to human capital and social capital of indigenous groups in these highlands.

Thai Huynh Anh Chi has a PhD from the the Institute of Geography in Heidelberg. Her research focuses on tourism geography and responsible tourism, assessment and administration of natural resources and GIS applications in the administration of natural resources.   

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Vulnerability context: A Study on Livelihood Pathways of the Indigenous PeopleChapter 2. Exposure Context: Socio-Economic Transformations and Land-Use ChangeChapter 3. Sensitivity in Livelihood PathwaysChapter 4. Livelihood Resilience – A Case Study: Community-Based Tourism (CBT)Chapter 5. Conclusion and DiscussionReferencesAnnex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 157 p. 37 illus., 32 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Communities in Central Highlands of Vietnam • Community-Based Tourism (CBT) • Environmental and socio-economic transformation • Environmental Geography • Land-Use Change • Resilience of indigenous people • Vulnerability of indigenous people
• ISBN-10: 3-319-71171-7 / 3319711717
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-71171-3 / 9783319711713