Overview
- Presents a detailed study on the agentive role of local people while coping with pressures
- Includes in-depth interviews, supported by spatial data and secondary data to show the dynamics of livelihood pathways and insights within these indigenous communities
- Applies a hybrid concept of vulnerability and actors to disaggregate the complex problem and shed light on agentive behaviours of indigenous people on their own livelihoods
Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (AAHER)
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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.
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.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Livelihood Pathways of Indigenous People in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Book Subtitle: Exploring Land-Use Change
Authors: Huỳnh Anh Chi Thái
Series Title: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71171-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71170-6Published: 08 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89044-9Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71171-3Published: 31 January 2018
Series ISSN: 1879-7180
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 157
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Geography, Human Geography, Environmental Politics, Landscape Ecology, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Sociology