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Forest Management Systems in the Uplands of Vietnam: Social, Economic and Environmental Perspectives

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  • Nguyen Nghia Bien

    (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development)

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The North Upland of Vietnam is characterized by biophysical, social and cultural diversity as well as its important role in the national economy’s development. However, the region, like those in other developing countries, suffers from serious environmental problems such as deforestation, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and unsustainable livelihoods. Major causes are attributed to ineffective institutional arrangements such as inadequate property rights and enforcement, lack of local participation and empowerment, and misguided government policies. This research project began in early 1999 with financial and technical supports from the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). It aimed to determine the better institutional structures for promoting sustainable forest management in the North Upland using the multiple criteria decision making and participatory approaches. In other words, the project assessed and compared various forest management regimes against different socio-economic, environmental and institutional variables. Methods used in this research included Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Criteria and Indicators (C&Is) Framework (CIFOR approach) and Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). PRA is used to learn about rural livelihoods and identify problems emerging from forest resource management and use, making sure that all information from the grassroots, including their views, interests and desires, is taken into consideration. C&Is Framework is widely used by CIFOR to test and develop C&Is for sustainable forest management in various locations around the world. It can result in a number of context-specific and locally adapted C&Is which are used for further treatment with MCDA. TopDec, one of the recently developed MCDA programs, was chosen for data analysis.

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  • Nguyen Nghia Bien, 2016. "Forest Management Systems in the Uplands of Vietnam: Social, Economic and Environmental Perspectives," EEPSEA Research Report rr2016052, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), revised Apr 2016.
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