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Nga Dao

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Associate Professor
Business & Society (BUSO) and International Development Studies (IDS)

Office: 764A Ross Building South
Phone: 416 736 2100 Ext: 44675
Email: ngadao@yorku.ca

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I am a broadly trained human-environment geographer and international development practitioner/environmental activist with more than two decades of applied research experience. My research expertise lies at the intersection of resource governance, political ecology, political economy and livelihood change. My work is characterized by empirical, field-based research informed by relevant theory, and committed to improving the social and ecological outcomes of environmental governance. I have conducted research on topics including development-induced displacement in Southeast Asia, gender equality and women’s role in water resource governance, agri-business and land grabbing. I am now focusing on river ecologies, livelihood change and environmental justice in the Mekong delta, exploring how the delta landscape has been transformed through expansion of boom crops, industrialization, resource (land & water) degradation and migration.

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Degrees

PhD , York University
MA in International Agriculture and Rural Development, Cornell University
MSc in Financial Economics, University of London
BA in Linguistics, Hanoi University

Professional Leadership

Member of the Curriculum Committee, Department of Social Science, York University (2018-)

Board Chair of the Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development (WARECOD) (2018-)

Member of the International Rivers' Advisory Board, Berkeley, USA. (2007-)

Board Chair of the Vietnam Rivers Network, Vietnam. (2006-)

Review service:
Spring 2021: Reviewer, Journal of Peasant Studies
Fall 2020: Reviewer, Sociology Compass
Winter 2020: Reviewer, Sage Open, Journal of Peasant Studies, Geoforum
Summer 2019: Reviewer, Journal of Peasant Studies, Geoforum
Spring 2019: Reviewer, Globalization
Winter 2019: Reviewer, Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Research Interests

Environment and Sustainability , Gender Issues, Resources governance and environmental justice

Current Research Projects

Territory and Politics of Resources: everyday lives and landscapes in the Northwest Vietnam.

    Summary:

    In this project, I will focus on the impacts of mining in the Northwest uplands of Vietnam as part of a broader study of how development discourse and resource politics have shaped and reshaped this borderland over the past three decades.

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    Role: PI

    Start Date:
      Month: Aug   Year: 2020

    End Date:
      Month: Jul   Year: 2022

Living Delta Hub

    Summary:

    The Living Delta Hub focuses on 3 major deltas in Asia: The Red River, The Mekong & the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna. We aim to safeguard delta futures through more resilient communities and sustainable development and to address the significant challenges currently confronting these delta SESs in a transdisciplinary manner that responds to the interlinked agenda of the SDGs.

    See more
    Role: Co-PI

    Start Date:
      Month: Jan   Year: 2019

    End Date:
      Month: Dec   Year: 2024

Books

Publication
Year

Vietnam Hydropower and its challenges to sustainability. Hanoi: Science and Technology Publisher. Co-edited with Le, Anh Tuan

2016

Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. London: Earthscan. Co-edited with Lazarus, K., N. Badenoch, and B. P. Resurreccion.

2011

Book Chapters

Publication
Year

“Environment and Society in Contemporary Vietnam: Development, Crisis, And Response.” Chapter 25 in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam.

2022

“How to deal with hunger? Household strategies and rural livelihood diversification in dam-induced resettlement site”. Chapter 6 in "Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement in Vietnam: Exploring the State-People Nexus”

2022

“Land from the tiller: The politics of “land recovery” in Vietnam”. Chapter 10 in “Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region”

2022

“Money pool (Hụi/Họ) in the Mekong Delta: An old way of doing finance in rural Vietnam”. Chapter 10 in “Community economies in the Global South: Case studies about rotating savings and credit associations and economic cooperatives

2022

Community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification in river deltas: Lessons from the Ganges and Mekong Rivers. Co-authored with Douglas J. Merrey, Manoranjan K. Mondal, Chu Thai Hoanh, and Elizabeth Humphreys. Chapter 10 in “Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification: Technology and Policy Challenges in the Face of Climate Change”. Edited by Udaya Sekhar Nagothu and Esther Bloem. London: EarthScan/Routledge.

2018

Hydropower and waterscape transformation in Vietnam: background and history. Chapter 1, in “Vietnam Hydropower and its challenges to sustainability”. Edited by Le, Anh Tuan and Nga Dao. Hanoi: Science and Technology Publisher.

2016

Waterscape in Vietnam: Way forward. Chapter 11, in “Vietnam Hydropower and its challenges to sustainability”. Edited by Le, Anh Tuan and Nga Dao. Hanoi: Science and Technology Publisher.

2016

Rethinking Development Narratives of Hydropower in Vietnam. Chapter 9 in “Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region: Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives”. Edited by Nathanial Matthews and Kim Geheb. London: Earthscan.

2015

Ensuring justice in water governance in Mekong region. Co-authored with Bernadette P. Resurrection, Kate Lazarus and Nathan Badenoch. In Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. Page 245-253. Edited by Lazarus et al. London: Earthscan.

2011

Water Governance and Water rights in the Mekong region. Co-authored with Nathan Badenoch, Kate Lazarus, and Bernadette P. Resurreccion. In Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. Pages 1-16. Edited by Lazarus et al. London: Earthscan.

2011

Book Reviews

Publication
Year

Contested Territory: Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam. Christian Lentz. Yale University Press. New Haven and London
(2020) Volume 8, Issue 2, The AAG Review of Books, 8:2, 63-134, DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2020.1722505

2020

Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. Pamela
McElwee’s. University of Washington Press. Seattle and London.
H-Net Humanities and Social Science online. July 2017.

2017

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

Environmental justice and the politics of coal-fired thermal power in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Journal of Asia Pacific Viewpoint.

2022

Nga Dao. Rubber plantations and their implications on gender roles and relations in northern uplands Vietnam, Gender, Place & Culture, 25:11, 1579-1600, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1553851

2019

Perceptions and Practices of Investment: China’s hydropower investments in Vietnam and Myanmar. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 38(3): 395-413. Co-authored with Lamb, V.

2017

Reflecting on the role of academics/activists in shifting hydropower narratives in Vietnam. Critical Asian Studies. 49(3): 428-437, DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2017.1339444

2017

Political responses to dam-induced resettlement in northern uplands Vietnam. Journal of Agrarian Change. 16(2): 291-317 doi: 10.1111/joac.12106

2016

Rubber plantation in the Northwest region: Rethinking the concept of land grabs in Vietnam. Journal of Peasant Studies 42(2):347-369.

2015

Damming rivers in Vietnam: A lesson learned in the Tây Bắc (Northwest) region. Journal for Vietnamese Studies 6(2):106-140.

2011

Dam development in Vietnam: The evolution of dam-induced resettlement policy. Water Alternatives 3(2):324-340.

2010

Conference Papers

Publication
Year

Seminar on Regional Women's Human Rights mechanisms with UNWGDAW vice-chair Meskerem Geset Techane, July 19, University of Toronto.

2018

“The political economy of natural resources and indigenous rights in the Central Highlands of Vietnam”. Paper to be presented at the 15th Congress International Society for Ecological Economics. September 10-12. Puebla, Mexico.

2018

Boundaries and development in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: River Basin and hydropower. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference, March 16-19, 2017. Toronto, Canada.

2017

Environmental Justice and Populist Authoritarianism in Vietnam. Panelist. “Regionalization & the New Authoritarianism”. Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) conference. October 26-28. Toronto, Canada.

2017

“Reflecting on the role of academics/activists in shifting hydropower narratives in Vietnam.” Research at the Interface of Activism and Academia in Southeast Asia. AAS Southeast Asia Council Workshop, 16 March, 2017. Toronto, Canada.

2017

Agrarian change and gendered livelihoods in northern uplands Vietnam. Paper presented at the workshop on “Global Land transaction”, 20-21 April 2016. University of Michigan at Ann-Arbor.

2016

Pathways to engage communities in water governance in the Gam River basin and Mekong delta, Vietnam. Paper presented at the Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy, 9-11 November, 2016.

2016

Positive Deviants - Asymmetrical gender benefits of development projects. Paper presented at the Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy, 9-11 November, 2016, co-hosted by CGIAR and Chulalongkong University, Thailand.

2016

Rubber plantation in the Northwest region: Rethinking the concept of land grabs in Vietnam. Paper presented at the academic conference “Land grabbing, conflicts & agrarian-environmental transformations: Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia”, 5-6 June 2015, Chiang Mai University.

2015

Water right for ethnic minority groups in Vietnam. Paper presented at the Workshop on Land, Water and the Environment: The Politics of Rights, November 7-8, 2014, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2014

Local knowledge research in the Mekong Delta. Session on Community Resiliency & Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong and Mississippi River Deltas. May 19-23, Vietnam.

2013

Rubber plantation and the production of “new” land governance in the Northwest of Vietnam. Paper presented at Annual conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG). 12-15 August. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.

2013

Sustainability and water governance in the Mekong region. Session on the Mekong. Workshop on Water Diplomacy, November 13-15, The Hague, the Netherlands.

2013

Land tenure in Vietnam: Challenges and Policy Responses for Gender and Resettlement. Association for Asian Studies, March 15-18, Toronto, Canada.

2012

Dam development in Vietnam – Dispossession by accumulation for socialist construction /neoliberalism. AAG 12-17 April, Seattle, USA

2011

Resettlement rehabilitation & gender differentiation in northern uplands Vietnam. Association for Asian Studies, Mar 31-Apr 3, University of Hawaii.

2011

Rethinking Dam development in Vietnam: Displacement and Unevenness in development. Paper presented at Cornell University’s Conference on “Rethinking Development: Debating new directions in a time of crises” November 10-12.

2011

Water governance and its politics in Vietnam. Paper presented at the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference 2011, Toronto, Canada, 14-15th October

2011

Damming rivers in Vietnam: A lesson learned in the Northwest region, first presenter. Association for Asian Studies, March 25-28, Philadelphia, USA

2010

Dams and their social impacts in Vietnam: A recent history and critical evaluation of resettlement study – gender perspective. Association of American Geographers, 12-17 April, Washington DC, USA

2010

Research Reports

Publication
Year

Scaling Up Community-Driven Approaches to Achieving Sustainable Agroecological Intensification in River Delta Systems: Lessons from the Ganges and Mekong. Co-authored with MK 26 and WLE G7 teams under WLE funded project.

2017

Socio-economic scenarios as an adaptation tool for climate change in Bao Lac, Vietnam. Study report. Funded by Rosa Luxemburg. Co-authored with Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Lan and Nguyen, Ngoc Khac.

2016

Access to productive agricultural land by the landless, land poor and smallholder farmers in the four lower Mekong River basin countries. Oxfam report. Co-authored with Lamb, V., Middleton, C., Leonard, R.

2015

Desk study and policy brief on “Land use and land access for rural farmers and
the rural poor in Vietnam”.

2015

Perceptions and Practices of Investment: China’s hydropower investments in mainland Southeast Asia. Working paper No. 21 for the BRICS Initiatives in Critical Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague. Co-authored with Lamb, V.

2015

Community-based Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) in the Gam River basin, Northern upland Vietnam. Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Co-authored with Bui Lien Phuong, Nguyen Ngoc Khac, Nguyen Thi Hien and Le Thi Kim Oanh.

2013

Socio-economic scenarios as an adaptation tool for climate change in Nguyen Binh, Vietnam. Study report. Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Co-authored with Henrik Carlsen, Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, Phuong Bui, Dat Ngan Thuy and Lan Nguyen Thi Ngoc.

2013

Rubber plantation in resettlement sites: Opportunity or Challenge in Son La province? Study report. Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development. Hanoi, Vietnam. Co-authored with Ho Quang, and Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan.

2010

Challenges to resettlement of the Son La project. Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development. Hanoi, Vietnam. Co-authored with Tran Van Ha, and Le Kim Sa.

2008

A work in progress: Study on the impacts on Vietnam’s Son La Hydropower project. Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations. Hanoi, Vietnam (funded by the Ford Foundation). Co-authored with Nguyen Manh Cuong, Tran Van Ha, and Le Kim Sa.

2006

Environmental conflicts and dam-induced resettlement: A case study of the A Vuong dam, Vietnam. Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations. Hanoi, Vietnam (funded by the Ford Foundation)

2006

Participation-A critical concept in development. Contribution to Siemenpuu discussion papers 2006. Ecological Democracy: Rights of the local communities to land, forests and water.

2006

Forthcoming

Publication
Year

From decollectivization to capitalization, turning land into capital in a socialist market economy. First author. Co-authored with Marie Mellac. Chapter 9 in “Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region” Edited by Michael Dwyer, Philip Hirsch, Natalia Scurrah and Kevin Woods. University of Washington Press.

2018

Positive Deviants - Asymmetrical gender benefits of development projects. Submitted to Journal of Gender & Development.

2018

Gender relations, modernization and drug use in rubber plantation in northern uplands Vietnam. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.


Other

Publication
Year

“Geography of Energy – Vietnam” entry in Encyclopedia of Energy, edited by Pierce, M. published by Salem Press, Pasadena, CA.

2011


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2024 AP/SOSC3044 3.0 M Green Business SEMR
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC2342 6.0 A The Firm, Organization and Management LECT
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC3543 6.0 A Introduction to Gender and Development SEMR



I am a broadly trained human-environment geographer and international development practitioner/environmental activist with more than two decades of applied research experience. My research expertise lies at the intersection of resource governance, political ecology, political economy and livelihood change. My work is characterized by empirical, field-based research informed by relevant theory, and committed to improving the social and ecological outcomes of environmental governance. I have conducted research on topics including development-induced displacement in Southeast Asia, gender equality and women’s role in water resource governance, agri-business and land grabbing. I am now focusing on river ecologies, livelihood change and environmental justice in the Mekong delta, exploring how the delta landscape has been transformed through expansion of boom crops, industrialization, resource (land & water) degradation and migration.

Degrees

PhD , York University
MA in International Agriculture and Rural Development, Cornell University
MSc in Financial Economics, University of London
BA in Linguistics, Hanoi University

Professional Leadership

Member of the Curriculum Committee, Department of Social Science, York University (2018-)

Board Chair of the Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development (WARECOD) (2018-)

Member of the International Rivers' Advisory Board, Berkeley, USA. (2007-)

Board Chair of the Vietnam Rivers Network, Vietnam. (2006-)

Review service:
Spring 2021: Reviewer, Journal of Peasant Studies
Fall 2020: Reviewer, Sociology Compass
Winter 2020: Reviewer, Sage Open, Journal of Peasant Studies, Geoforum
Summer 2019: Reviewer, Journal of Peasant Studies, Geoforum
Spring 2019: Reviewer, Globalization
Winter 2019: Reviewer, Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Research Interests

Environment and Sustainability , Gender Issues, Resources governance and environmental justice

Current Research Projects

Territory and Politics of Resources: everyday lives and landscapes in the Northwest Vietnam.

    Summary:

    In this project, I will focus on the impacts of mining in the Northwest uplands of Vietnam as part of a broader study of how development discourse and resource politics have shaped and reshaped this borderland over the past three decades.

    Project Type: Funded
    Role: PI

    Start Date:
      Month: Aug   Year: 2020

    End Date:
      Month: Jul   Year: 2022

Living Delta Hub

    Summary:

    The Living Delta Hub focuses on 3 major deltas in Asia: The Red River, The Mekong & the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna. We aim to safeguard delta futures through more resilient communities and sustainable development and to address the significant challenges currently confronting these delta SESs in a transdisciplinary manner that responds to the interlinked agenda of the SDGs.

    Project Type: Funded
    Role: Co-PI

    Start Date:
      Month: Jan   Year: 2019

    End Date:
      Month: Dec   Year: 2024

All Publications


Book Chapters

Publication
Year

“Environment and Society in Contemporary Vietnam: Development, Crisis, And Response.” Chapter 25 in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam.

2022

“How to deal with hunger? Household strategies and rural livelihood diversification in dam-induced resettlement site”. Chapter 6 in "Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement in Vietnam: Exploring the State-People Nexus”

2022

“Land from the tiller: The politics of “land recovery” in Vietnam”. Chapter 10 in “Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region”

2022

“Money pool (Hụi/Họ) in the Mekong Delta: An old way of doing finance in rural Vietnam”. Chapter 10 in “Community economies in the Global South: Case studies about rotating savings and credit associations and economic cooperatives

2022

Community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification in river deltas: Lessons from the Ganges and Mekong Rivers. Co-authored with Douglas J. Merrey, Manoranjan K. Mondal, Chu Thai Hoanh, and Elizabeth Humphreys. Chapter 10 in “Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification: Technology and Policy Challenges in the Face of Climate Change”. Edited by Udaya Sekhar Nagothu and Esther Bloem. London: EarthScan/Routledge.

2018

Hydropower and waterscape transformation in Vietnam: background and history. Chapter 1, in “Vietnam Hydropower and its challenges to sustainability”. Edited by Le, Anh Tuan and Nga Dao. Hanoi: Science and Technology Publisher.

2016

Waterscape in Vietnam: Way forward. Chapter 11, in “Vietnam Hydropower and its challenges to sustainability”. Edited by Le, Anh Tuan and Nga Dao. Hanoi: Science and Technology Publisher.

2016

Rethinking Development Narratives of Hydropower in Vietnam. Chapter 9 in “Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region: Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives”. Edited by Nathanial Matthews and Kim Geheb. London: Earthscan.

2015

Ensuring justice in water governance in Mekong region. Co-authored with Bernadette P. Resurrection, Kate Lazarus and Nathan Badenoch. In Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. Page 245-253. Edited by Lazarus et al. London: Earthscan.

2011

Water Governance and Water rights in the Mekong region. Co-authored with Nathan Badenoch, Kate Lazarus, and Bernadette P. Resurreccion. In Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. Pages 1-16. Edited by Lazarus et al. London: Earthscan.

2011

Book Reviews

Publication
Year

Contested Territory: Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam. Christian Lentz. Yale University Press. New Haven and London
(2020) Volume 8, Issue 2, The AAG Review of Books, 8:2, 63-134, DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2020.1722505

2020

Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. Pamela
McElwee’s. University of Washington Press. Seattle and London.
H-Net Humanities and Social Science online. July 2017.

2017

Books

Publication
Year

Vietnam Hydropower and its challenges to sustainability. Hanoi: Science and Technology Publisher. Co-edited with Le, Anh Tuan

2016

Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. London: Earthscan. Co-edited with Lazarus, K., N. Badenoch, and B. P. Resurreccion.

2011

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

Environmental justice and the politics of coal-fired thermal power in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Journal of Asia Pacific Viewpoint.

2022

Nga Dao. Rubber plantations and their implications on gender roles and relations in northern uplands Vietnam, Gender, Place & Culture, 25:11, 1579-1600, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1553851

2019

Perceptions and Practices of Investment: China’s hydropower investments in Vietnam and Myanmar. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 38(3): 395-413. Co-authored with Lamb, V.

2017

Reflecting on the role of academics/activists in shifting hydropower narratives in Vietnam. Critical Asian Studies. 49(3): 428-437, DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2017.1339444

2017

Political responses to dam-induced resettlement in northern uplands Vietnam. Journal of Agrarian Change. 16(2): 291-317 doi: 10.1111/joac.12106

2016

Rubber plantation in the Northwest region: Rethinking the concept of land grabs in Vietnam. Journal of Peasant Studies 42(2):347-369.

2015

Damming rivers in Vietnam: A lesson learned in the Tây Bắc (Northwest) region. Journal for Vietnamese Studies 6(2):106-140.

2011

Dam development in Vietnam: The evolution of dam-induced resettlement policy. Water Alternatives 3(2):324-340.

2010

Conference Papers

Publication
Year

Seminar on Regional Women's Human Rights mechanisms with UNWGDAW vice-chair Meskerem Geset Techane, July 19, University of Toronto.

2018

“The political economy of natural resources and indigenous rights in the Central Highlands of Vietnam”. Paper to be presented at the 15th Congress International Society for Ecological Economics. September 10-12. Puebla, Mexico.

2018

Boundaries and development in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: River Basin and hydropower. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference, March 16-19, 2017. Toronto, Canada.

2017

Environmental Justice and Populist Authoritarianism in Vietnam. Panelist. “Regionalization & the New Authoritarianism”. Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) conference. October 26-28. Toronto, Canada.

2017

“Reflecting on the role of academics/activists in shifting hydropower narratives in Vietnam.” Research at the Interface of Activism and Academia in Southeast Asia. AAS Southeast Asia Council Workshop, 16 March, 2017. Toronto, Canada.

2017

Agrarian change and gendered livelihoods in northern uplands Vietnam. Paper presented at the workshop on “Global Land transaction”, 20-21 April 2016. University of Michigan at Ann-Arbor.

2016

Pathways to engage communities in water governance in the Gam River basin and Mekong delta, Vietnam. Paper presented at the Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy, 9-11 November, 2016.

2016

Positive Deviants - Asymmetrical gender benefits of development projects. Paper presented at the Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy, 9-11 November, 2016, co-hosted by CGIAR and Chulalongkong University, Thailand.

2016

Rubber plantation in the Northwest region: Rethinking the concept of land grabs in Vietnam. Paper presented at the academic conference “Land grabbing, conflicts & agrarian-environmental transformations: Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia”, 5-6 June 2015, Chiang Mai University.

2015

Water right for ethnic minority groups in Vietnam. Paper presented at the Workshop on Land, Water and the Environment: The Politics of Rights, November 7-8, 2014, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2014

Local knowledge research in the Mekong Delta. Session on Community Resiliency & Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong and Mississippi River Deltas. May 19-23, Vietnam.

2013

Rubber plantation and the production of “new” land governance in the Northwest of Vietnam. Paper presented at Annual conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG). 12-15 August. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.

2013

Sustainability and water governance in the Mekong region. Session on the Mekong. Workshop on Water Diplomacy, November 13-15, The Hague, the Netherlands.

2013

Land tenure in Vietnam: Challenges and Policy Responses for Gender and Resettlement. Association for Asian Studies, March 15-18, Toronto, Canada.

2012

Dam development in Vietnam – Dispossession by accumulation for socialist construction /neoliberalism. AAG 12-17 April, Seattle, USA

2011

Resettlement rehabilitation & gender differentiation in northern uplands Vietnam. Association for Asian Studies, Mar 31-Apr 3, University of Hawaii.

2011

Rethinking Dam development in Vietnam: Displacement and Unevenness in development. Paper presented at Cornell University’s Conference on “Rethinking Development: Debating new directions in a time of crises” November 10-12.

2011

Water governance and its politics in Vietnam. Paper presented at the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference 2011, Toronto, Canada, 14-15th October

2011

Damming rivers in Vietnam: A lesson learned in the Northwest region, first presenter. Association for Asian Studies, March 25-28, Philadelphia, USA

2010

Dams and their social impacts in Vietnam: A recent history and critical evaluation of resettlement study – gender perspective. Association of American Geographers, 12-17 April, Washington DC, USA

2010

Research Reports

Publication
Year

Scaling Up Community-Driven Approaches to Achieving Sustainable Agroecological Intensification in River Delta Systems: Lessons from the Ganges and Mekong. Co-authored with MK 26 and WLE G7 teams under WLE funded project.

2017

Socio-economic scenarios as an adaptation tool for climate change in Bao Lac, Vietnam. Study report. Funded by Rosa Luxemburg. Co-authored with Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Lan and Nguyen, Ngoc Khac.

2016

Access to productive agricultural land by the landless, land poor and smallholder farmers in the four lower Mekong River basin countries. Oxfam report. Co-authored with Lamb, V., Middleton, C., Leonard, R.

2015

Desk study and policy brief on “Land use and land access for rural farmers and
the rural poor in Vietnam”.

2015

Perceptions and Practices of Investment: China’s hydropower investments in mainland Southeast Asia. Working paper No. 21 for the BRICS Initiatives in Critical Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague. Co-authored with Lamb, V.

2015

Community-based Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) in the Gam River basin, Northern upland Vietnam. Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Co-authored with Bui Lien Phuong, Nguyen Ngoc Khac, Nguyen Thi Hien and Le Thi Kim Oanh.

2013

Socio-economic scenarios as an adaptation tool for climate change in Nguyen Binh, Vietnam. Study report. Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Co-authored with Henrik Carlsen, Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, Phuong Bui, Dat Ngan Thuy and Lan Nguyen Thi Ngoc.

2013

Rubber plantation in resettlement sites: Opportunity or Challenge in Son La province? Study report. Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development. Hanoi, Vietnam. Co-authored with Ho Quang, and Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan.

2010

Challenges to resettlement of the Son La project. Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development. Hanoi, Vietnam. Co-authored with Tran Van Ha, and Le Kim Sa.

2008

A work in progress: Study on the impacts on Vietnam’s Son La Hydropower project. Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations. Hanoi, Vietnam (funded by the Ford Foundation). Co-authored with Nguyen Manh Cuong, Tran Van Ha, and Le Kim Sa.

2006

Environmental conflicts and dam-induced resettlement: A case study of the A Vuong dam, Vietnam. Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations. Hanoi, Vietnam (funded by the Ford Foundation)

2006

Participation-A critical concept in development. Contribution to Siemenpuu discussion papers 2006. Ecological Democracy: Rights of the local communities to land, forests and water.

2006

Forthcoming

Publication
Year

From decollectivization to capitalization, turning land into capital in a socialist market economy. First author. Co-authored with Marie Mellac. Chapter 9 in “Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region” Edited by Michael Dwyer, Philip Hirsch, Natalia Scurrah and Kevin Woods. University of Washington Press.

2018

Positive Deviants - Asymmetrical gender benefits of development projects. Submitted to Journal of Gender & Development.

2018

Gender relations, modernization and drug use in rubber plantation in northern uplands Vietnam. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.


Other

Publication
Year

“Geography of Energy – Vietnam” entry in Encyclopedia of Energy, edited by Pierce, M. published by Salem Press, Pasadena, CA.

2011


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2024 AP/SOSC3044 3.0 M Green Business SEMR
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC2342 6.0 A The Firm, Organization and Management LECT
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC3543 6.0 A Introduction to Gender and Development SEMR