Hue Le
Biographic Data
| ID | 135163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hue Le |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hue |
| FAMILY NAME | Le |
| SIGNATURE | LE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | VNU Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1130-4272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hope in Folded Pages
This paper presents the co‐creation of River of Hope , an animation exploring climate resilience among communities along the Red River in Northern Vietnam. Developed through a transnational collaboration between Vietnamese youth, UK and Vietnamese researchers and a UK‐based animation artist, the project demonstrates how participatory digital arts can surface cultural connections and insights often obscured by generational and linguistic divides. …
The Roles of Academics in Environmental Struggles Along the Mekong
Academics in the Mekong region play a crucial role in producing research that supports environmental movements, challenges dominant models of development, and informs policy discussions. However, our ability to conduct research on environmental issues is constrained by government restrictions, institutional barriers, and shifting political climates. This article synthesises discussions from a recent collaborative workshop that examined the roles …
From science to storytelling
Climate change presents urgent global challenges that demand swift and transformative responses. However, current efforts often fall short, revealing a crisis not only of environmental concern but also of social action. Responses to this have included climate change and sustainability education and communication, though these have tended to be knowledge‐heavy, operating under outdated knowledge deficit‐based assumptions that merely providing more…
Place-based and intergenerational storytelling for youth climate action
The urgency of the climate crisis necessitates inclusive approaches that engage marginalised groups, particularly youth, in meaningful and sustained ways. This paper explores the transformative potential of place-based and intergenerational storytelling for fostering youth climate action, drawing on insights from a British Academy-funded project in Vietnam. Building on Lundy’s Model of Participation, we integrate “momentum” as a critical extensio…
Food retail environments around rural Victorian primary Schools
Few studies examine the influence on population diets of the healthiness of food retail outlets in the areas surrounding rural schools in Australia. This exploratory cross-sectional study examined associations between food retail environments within 500m and 1 km of 106 primary schools in rural Victoria, Australia, and self-reported diet and measured weight status of grade 4(9-10yo) and grade 6(12-13yo) students (n = 3236). Few significant result…
Act of hope
This case study explores a collaboration between young people, researchers and artists which captured stories of how people in the Red River Catchment of Northern Vietnam are responding to climate change, and then used the local art of water puppetry to communicate those stories to a wider audience. The performance evoked the interdependence of the human and physical worlds, showing the impacts of climate change but also people’s adaptiveness. In…
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems
The sustainability of social–ecological systems within river deltas globally is in question as rapid development and environmental change trigger “negative” or “positive” tipping points depending on actors’ perspectives, e.g. regime shift from abundant sediment deposition to sediment shortage, agricultural sustainability to agricultural collapse or shift from rural to urban land use. Using a systematic review of the literature, we show how cascad…
Relational Empowerment and Ethnic Minority Women in Vietnam
Empowerment projects and research have focused on marginalised women, but often with less attention to the intersectional and relational conditions affecting their marginalisation. Ethnic minority women in Vietnam have multiple marginalising conditions, and they are targeted by government programmes to increase their participation in labour markets, their income, and their empowerment. Yet what the empowerment process looks like and achieves for …
Locally led adaptation is key to ending deforestation
Local people want to keep their sand”
The Red River Delta is Vietnam's most densely populated catchment, with its communities intertwined with, and dependent upon, the delta and its resources. Intensive, widespread riverine sand extraction is linked to substantial degradation of the delta, directly threatening these livelihoods. The response of rural communities is to resist in various ways, dependent upon a complex matrix of geospatial factors. Using an ethnographic approach, we exp…
Aligning the Global Delta Risk Index with SDG and SFDRR global frameworks to assess risk to socio-ecological systems in river deltas
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-023-01295-3
Why do aspirations matter for empowerment
Social differentiation and access to clean water
Bac Ninh, a province adjacent to the Hanoi Capital Region of Vietnam, has long been renowned for its centuries-old craft villages. Today, Bac Ninh is becoming renowned for the toxic environments produced by its contemporary craft industries, such as the recycling of scrap metals and electronic waste. In this context, this paper considers how residents of a commune in peri-urban Hanoi perceive the cleanliness of their water, and how, accordingly, …
Payments for environmental services and contested neoliberalisation in developing countries
Economic Reforms and Mangrove Forests in Central Vietnam
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is increasingly viewed as especially suitable for promoting the sustainable development of common-pool resources. It is considered an alternative to state control or privatization because it ostensibly brings about decentralization, meaningful participation, and conservation. Although attracting international attention, CBNRM has not been widely implemented in Vietnam, where the main strategies …
Payments for environmental services and contested neoliberalisation in developing countries
Why do aspirations matter for empowerment
Local people want to keep their sand”
The Red River Delta is Vietnam's most densely populated catchment, with its communities intertwined with, and dependent upon, the delta and its resources. Intensive, widespread riverine sand extraction is linked to substantial degradation of the delta, directly threatening these livelihoods. The response of rural communities is to resist in various ways, dependent upon a complex matrix of geospatial factors. Using an ethnographic approach, we exp…
Economic Reforms and Mangrove Forests in Central Vietnam
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is increasingly viewed as especially suitable for promoting the sustainable development of common-pool resources. It is considered an alternative to state control or privatization because it ostensibly brings about decentralization, meaningful participation, and conservation. Although attracting international attention, CBNRM has not been widely implemented in Vietnam, where the main strategies …
Social differentiation and access to clean water
Bac Ninh, a province adjacent to the Hanoi Capital Region of Vietnam, has long been renowned for its centuries-old craft villages. Today, Bac Ninh is becoming renowned for the toxic environments produced by its contemporary craft industries, such as the recycling of scrap metals and electronic waste. In this context, this paper considers how residents of a commune in peri-urban Hanoi perceive the cleanliness of their water, and how, accordingly, …
Economic Reforms and Mangrove Forests in Central Vietnam
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is increasingly viewed as especially suitable for promoting the sustainable development of common-pool resources. It is considered an alternative to state control or privatization because it ostensibly brings about decentralization, meaningful participation, and conservation. Although attracting international attention, CBNRM has not been widely implemented in Vietnam, where the main strategies …
Payments for environmental services and contested neoliberalisation in developing countries
Social differentiation and access to clean water
Bac Ninh, a province adjacent to the Hanoi Capital Region of Vietnam, has long been renowned for its centuries-old craft villages. Today, Bac Ninh is becoming renowned for the toxic environments produced by its contemporary craft industries, such as the recycling of scrap metals and electronic waste. In this context, this paper considers how residents of a commune in peri-urban Hanoi perceive the cleanliness of their water, and how, accordingly, …
Why do aspirations matter for empowerment
Locally led adaptation is key to ending deforestation
Local people want to keep their sand”
The Red River Delta is Vietnam's most densely populated catchment, with its communities intertwined with, and dependent upon, the delta and its resources. Intensive, widespread riverine sand extraction is linked to substantial degradation of the delta, directly threatening these livelihoods. The response of rural communities is to resist in various ways, dependent upon a complex matrix of geospatial factors. Using an ethnographic approach, we exp…
Aligning the Global Delta Risk Index with SDG and SFDRR global frameworks to assess risk to socio-ecological systems in river deltas
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-023-01295-3
Act of hope
This case study explores a collaboration between young people, researchers and artists which captured stories of how people in the Red River Catchment of Northern Vietnam are responding to climate change, and then used the local art of water puppetry to communicate those stories to a wider audience. The performance evoked the interdependence of the human and physical worlds, showing the impacts of climate change but also people’s adaptiveness. In…
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems
The sustainability of social–ecological systems within river deltas globally is in question as rapid development and environmental change trigger “negative” or “positive” tipping points depending on actors’ perspectives, e.g. regime shift from abundant sediment deposition to sediment shortage, agricultural sustainability to agricultural collapse or shift from rural to urban land use. Using a systematic review of the literature, we show how cascad…
Relational Empowerment and Ethnic Minority Women in Vietnam
Empowerment projects and research have focused on marginalised women, but often with less attention to the intersectional and relational conditions affecting their marginalisation. Ethnic minority women in Vietnam have multiple marginalising conditions, and they are targeted by government programmes to increase their participation in labour markets, their income, and their empowerment. Yet what the empowerment process looks like and achieves for …
Place-based and intergenerational storytelling for youth climate action
The urgency of the climate crisis necessitates inclusive approaches that engage marginalised groups, particularly youth, in meaningful and sustained ways. This paper explores the transformative potential of place-based and intergenerational storytelling for fostering youth climate action, drawing on insights from a British Academy-funded project in Vietnam. Building on Lundy’s Model of Participation, we integrate “momentum” as a critical extensio…
Food retail environments around rural Victorian primary Schools
Few studies examine the influence on population diets of the healthiness of food retail outlets in the areas surrounding rural schools in Australia. This exploratory cross-sectional study examined associations between food retail environments within 500m and 1 km of 106 primary schools in rural Victoria, Australia, and self-reported diet and measured weight status of grade 4(9-10yo) and grade 6(12-13yo) students (n = 3236). Few significant result…
Hope in Folded Pages
This paper presents the co‐creation of River of Hope , an animation exploring climate resilience among communities along the Red River in Northern Vietnam. Developed through a transnational collaboration between Vietnamese youth, UK and Vietnamese researchers and a UK‐based animation artist, the project demonstrates how participatory digital arts can surface cultural connections and insights often obscured by generational and linguistic divides. …
The Roles of Academics in Environmental Struggles Along the Mekong
Academics in the Mekong region play a crucial role in producing research that supports environmental movements, challenges dominant models of development, and informs policy discussions. However, our ability to conduct research on environmental issues is constrained by government restrictions, institutional barriers, and shifting political climates. This article synthesises discussions from a recent collaborative workshop that examined the roles …
From science to storytelling
Climate change presents urgent global challenges that demand swift and transformative responses. However, current efforts often fall short, revealing a crisis not only of environmental concern but also of social action. Responses to this have included climate change and sustainability education and communication, though these have tended to be knowledge‐heavy, operating under outdated knowledge deficit‐based assumptions that merely providing more…
Political science (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works)