Illegal Logging in Vietnam:<i>Lam Tac</i>(Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk

Sikor, Thomas; To, Phuc Xuan

doi:10.1080/08941920903573057

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“…There are many possible explanations for political inaction. One contributing factor is the collusion between logging interests and government officials, which reveals a clear conflict of interest among some state actors (Alemagi and Kozak 2010), although such problems are found in other countries as well (Casson and Obidzinski 2002, World Bank 2006, Sikor and To 2011.…”

Section: National Ownership As a Prerequisite For Progressmentioning

confidence: 99%

National REDD+ policy networks: from cooperation to conflict

Brockhaus¹,

Gregorio²

2014

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is a financial mechanism aimed at providing incentives to reduce carbon emissions from forests and enhance carbon stocks. In most forest-rich developing countries, policy actors, i.e., state and nonstate as well as international and national, are designing national REDD+ policies. Actors' interests and beliefs shape patterns of interactions, ranging from cooperation to conflict, and these interactions influence a country's direction and progress in REDD+ policy formulation and implementation. We used a comparative policy network approach to analyze the power structures in national REDD+ policy domains in seven countries. We drew on the typology of power structures defined by two dimensions, namely the distribution of power in the policy arena and the dominant type of interaction, cooperative or conflictual, among actors, and we mapped the progress of national REDD+ decision-making processes against these power structures. We tested three hypotheses and found that (1) national ownership over the policy process is a prerequisite for progress. In addition, (2) the level of concentration of power in an actor group can facilitate progress in REDD+; however, particularly when concentration of power is high, progress will be possible only if the interests of the most powerful are aligned with the objectives of REDD+ and address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. Furthermore, (3) although cooperation is perceived as ideal in any collective decision-making setting, a certain level of conflict is necessary for progress in REDD+ decision making. This applies particularly in more advanced national REDD+ domains, where, following a honeymoon phase during which most policy actors embrace the broad idea of REDD+, policy decisions must deal with difficult realities associated with negotiating established business-as-usual interests, which entails high political costs.

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Section: National Ownership As a Prerequisite For Progressmentioning

confidence: 99%

National REDD+ policy networks: from cooperation to conflict

Brockhaus¹,

Gregorio²

2014

E&S

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“…If divided, as seen in the case of Nui Chua, management decisions may contradict the conservation and livelihood goals of the SUFs in question-a problem extending to various cases of hydropower and infrastructure development supported by PPCs (e.g., [68]). Weak cross-accountability of these organizations is also not desirable given the complex political economy of illegal forestry activity [69]. In order to facilitate more meaningful community collaboration, and thereby break down the dominant administrative mode of co-management, greater awareness of the political dynamics of power and decision-making is required.…”

Section: Comparative Analysis and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Vietnamese State and Administrative Co-Management of Nature Reserves

2016

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Abstract:The Vietnamese government has introduced co-management in its national system of special-use forests (SUFs) to improve the effectiveness of nature and biodiversity conservation. One of the major challenges is to allow flexibility and local adaptability of co-management coordinated by SUF management boards within the overall still-rigid structure of vertical state networks. Using a critical institutional perspective, this paper examines the influence of the vertical and horizontal linkages that underline the form and function of SUF co-management. Data is presented from a nation-wide survey of 113 SUFs, 22 random in-depth interviews, and four in-depth case studies of SUFs. The results show that the success of co-management in centralized states like Vietnam depends on the greater devolution of allocative power from central to district governments to facilitate horizontal networked collaboration with local communities. Yet the results also indicate that the central state maintains an important role in setting the conditions that allow for the success of these networked collaborations. Based on these findings the conclusions reflect on the need to further develop a critical institutional approach for understanding the purpose, interests, and resources of co-management in the context of centralized states.

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“…Cash income from expanding larger-scale commercial acacia plantations has become ever more important, however with an income gap opening between rich landholders (making good profits from acacias) and poor households (becoming more marginalized and dependent on casual/subsidiary labor) (Tran et al 2013b;Bayrak et al 2015). In accordance with expanding cash crops, the collection of wild products has also become more commercialized, with rich households often maintaining controls over collection/trade of key products (McElwee 2008;Sikor and To 2011;Tran et al 2013b). Programs of community-based forest management (CFM) were launched in 2006 and piloted in Nam Đông (Tran et al 2010b), but strong socio-economic dynamics linked to market forces and emerging cash crops outweigh many efforts directed at the conservation and sustainable use of remaining communally managed natural forests.…”

Section: Ntfps and Associated Values Of Hpc-forestmentioning

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Tree species diversity and utilities in a contracting lowland hillside rainforest fragment in Central Vietnam

Van

Cochard²

2017

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Background: Within the highly bio-diverse 'Northern Vietnam Lowland Rain Forests Ecoregion' only small, and mostly highly modified forestlands persist within vast exotic-species plantations. The aim of this study was to elucidate vegetation patterns of a secondary hillside rainforest remnant (elevation 120-330 m, 76 ha) as an outcome of natural processes, and anthropogenic processes linked to changing forest values.

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Illegal Logging in Vietnam:Lam Tac(Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk

Cited by 52 publications

References 13 publications

National REDD+ policy networks: from cooperation to conflict

National REDD+ policy networks: from cooperation to conflict

The Vietnamese State and Administrative Co-Management of Nature Reserves

Tree species diversity and utilities in a contracting lowland hillside rainforest fragment in Central Vietnam

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