New partnership mechanisms for integrated natural resource management: the Red River Basin (Vietnam) pilot region for operational ecoregional approach

Combining top-down and bottom-up modelling approaches of land use/cover change to support public policies: Application to sustainable management of natural resources in northern Vietnam

“…The main challenge for research to support these trends is to avoid producing more academic models for NRM but rather to strive for widespread acceptance and use of NRM approaches that have real and lasting impact (ISNAR, 2004). For this to happen, NRM research requires new partnership mechanisms that allow better integration of the scientific-technical perspectives of the researchers with the local-indigenous perspectives of other stakeholders (Castella et al, 2001).…”

“…The RRB features a wide range of agroecological and socio-economic situations, which call for the development of specific tools and methodologies for integrated management of natural resources across multiple scales. Reconnaissance meetings and a number of workshops were organized with concerned institutions to identify key NRM issues, take stock of past and ongoing NRM research, and identify appropriate methodologies that could be easily implemented or developed jointly, and to strengthen inter-institutional partnerships (Castella et al, 2001). It was agreed that comprehensive analysis of land use/cover change (LUCC) to understand past and ongoing changes was needed as a first essential step for integrated, multi-scale NRM research .…”

Towards new modes of governance of the research?development continuum to facilitate the dissemination of agricultural innovations in a mountainous province of northern Vietnam

“…It also requires the use of specific tools and methods as well as precise know-how in networking and partnership management. These aspects of coordination, which have not yet been recognised by the scientific community, form a new research topic [7].…”