Dr Xuan Phuc To
Areas of expertise
- Human Geography 1604
- Anthropology 1601
Biography
Phuc Xuan To is a research fellow at Resources, Environment and Development Group of Crawford School of Public Policy. Phuc received his PhD in environment at Humboldt University (Germany) in 2007. His dissertation project examines the political economy of the forest sector in Vietnam, with a particular focus on the dynamics of access and control over the forest. From 2007 to 2009, Phuc was working as a postdoc fellow at Anthropology Department of University of Toronto (Canada), where he participated in “The Challenges of Agrarian Transitions in Southeast Asia “ (ChATSEA) project. Since 2009, Phuc has been working with Forest Trends as a senior policy analyst. His work has focused on local dynamics of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) in the Mekong countries, particularly Vietnam.
Researcher's projects
The political ecology of forest carbon – mainland Southeast Asia’s new commodity frontier (2012-2015), supported by an ARC Discovery Grant, this study aims to understand how forest user in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos respond to the complex local, national and regional dimension of the emerging market for forest carbon.
Project webpage: http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/rmap/project/details.php?searchterm=political_ecology
In this project Phuc works as a research fellow.
Publications
- To, X, Mahanty, S & Dressler, W 2015, ''A new landlord' (dia chu moi)? Community, land conflict and State Forest Companies (SFCs) in Vietnam', Forestry Policy and Economics, vol. 58, no. 2014, pp. 21-28.
- Dressler, W, Mahanty, S, Clendenning, To, P. 2014, 'Rearticulating governance through carbon in the Lao PDR?', Environment and Planning C, vol. 32.
- To, X, Mahanty, S & Dressler, W 2014, 'Social Networks of Corruption in the Vietnamese and Lao Cross-Border Timber Trade', Anthropological Forum, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 154-174.
- Dressler, W, To, P & Mahanty, S 2013, How biodiversity conservation policy accelerates agrarian differentiation: The account of an upland village in vietnam, Conservation and Society, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 130-143.
- To, P, Dressler, W, Mahanty, S et al, 2012. 'The Prospects for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: A Look at Three Payment Schemes', Human Ecology, 40, pp. 237-249.
- To, X. P. (2012). Dai Gia Ve Que [The "New Rich" Go To the Countryside]: Impacts of the Urban-fuelled Rural Land Market. In The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam. V. Nguyen-Marshall; L. Drummond; D. Belanger (eds). Singapore: Springer.
- To, X. P., W. Dressler, S. Mahanty, Pham. T.T, C. Zingerli. 2012. The Prospectives for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: A Look at Three Payment Schemes. Human Ecology 40:237-249
- To, Xuan Phuc (2012). Legal Rights to Resources Versus Forest Access in the Vietnamese Uplands. In State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam: Property, Power and Values. H. T. Ho-Tai, and M. Sidel (eds.) Rutledge.
- Sikor, T. and To, X.P. (2011). Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk. Society & Natural Resources, 24: 7, 688-701
- To, X. P. (2011). Forest Devolution and Social Differentiation in Vietnam. In Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights. T. Sikor and J. Stahl (eds.). New York: Earthscan.
- To, X. P. (2011). The development of a Land Market in the Uplands of Vietnam. In Upland Transformations: Opening Boundaries in Vietnam. T. Sikor, Nghiem T.P.T, J. Romm, and J. Sowerwine (eds.). Singapore: Singapore National University Press.
- To, X. P. (2010). Legal Pluralism in the Management of Luoi Hai Mountain Forest, Vietnam. In Negotiating Local Governance: Natural Resources Management at the Interface of Communities and the State. I. Eguavoen, L. Wolfram (eds.). Berlin and London: LIT Verlag/Transaction Publishers.
- To, X. P. (2009). Elite Capture and Local Inequality In Politics of Devolution in Southeast Asia. P. Vandergeest and C. Vitayapak (eds.). Chiangmai: Mekong Press.
- To, X. P. (2009). Why Did the Forest Conservation Policy Fail in the Vietnamese Uplands? Forest Conflicts in Ba Vi National Park in Northern Region International Journal for Environmental Studies 66 (1): 59-68.
- To, X. P. (2008). Whose Land, Whose Forest? Contesting Highland Forest Resources in Vietnam. In Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region. L. Prasit, D. McCaskill, B. Kwanchewan (eds.) Chiangmai: Mekong Press.
- To, X. P. (2007). Fuzzy Property Relations in the Vietnamese Uplands: Ethnography of Forest Access and Control. International Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (5):37-73
