Recent Publications

I keep updated access to most of my publications, some of which are downloadable, at my webpage at Academia.edu:  http://urutgers.academia.edu/PamelaMcElwee

Examples of recent papers include:

“Payments for Environmental Services as Neoliberal Market-based Forest Conservation in Vietnam: Panacea or Problem? ” Geoforum online first, 2011.

The Social Dimensions of Adaptation to Climate Change in VietnamDevelopment and Climate Change Discussion Paper No. 17, World Bank, 2010.

“Resource Use among Rural Agricultural Households near Protected Areas in Vietnam: The Social Costs of Conservation and Implications for Enforcement.” Environmental Management, 2010, 45: 113-131.

“Reforesting ‘Bare Hills’ in Vietnam: Social and Environmental Consequences of the 5 Million Hectare Reforestation Program.” Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2009, 38(6): 325-333.

“‘Blood Relatives’ or Unfriendly Neighbors? Vietnamese – Ethnic Minority Interactions in the Annamite Mountains,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2008,  3(3): 81-116. Part of special issue on “Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam”, Philip Taylor, guest editor.

“Forest Environmental Income in Vietnam: Household Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Forest Use .” Environmental Conservation, 2008, 35 (2): 1-13.

“From the Moral Economy to the World Economy: Revisiting Vietnamese Peasants in a Globalizing Era.”  Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2007,  2(2): 57-107.

“Displacement and Relocation Redux: Stories from Southeast Asia”. Conservation and Society,  2006, 4(3): 396-403. Part of a special issue on “Relocation from Protected Areas”.

“’There is Nothing That is Difficult’: History and Hardship on and after the Ho Chi Minh Trail in North Vietnam.” The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2005,  6(3): 197-214.

“You Say Illegal, I Say Legal: The Relationship between ‘Illegal’ Logging and Poverty, Land Tenure, and Forest Use Rights in Vietnam.” Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2004,  19 (1/2/3): 97-135.

I will also have a co-edited book with Maria Cruz-Torres coming out soon with University of Arizona Press, titled Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America. Look for it in 2012!