Thomas Sikor
Biographic Data
| ID | 630398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Sikor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sikor |
| SIGNATURE | SIKOR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 887 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Transformation of Farmer Resistance in Conservation Areas: Land Occupation by Farmers in Mount Halimun-Salak National Park, West Java
A number of studies have shown various agrarian conflicts as a response by local farmers against the policy of national parks that prohibits them from accessing conservation forest areas. However, previous studies had not explained the dynamics of power relations between park authorities and farmers who stand in opposition to these policies. This study employs a qualitative research approach complemented by secondary data to explain the transform…
Brokering justice: Global indigenous rights and struggles over hydropower in Nepal
This article explores the dynamics of brokerage at the intersection between the justice conceptions enshrined in global norms and the notions of justice asserted in specific socio-environmental struggles. Using the case of a small hydropower project in Nepal, we trace the attempts of an indigenous activist to enrol villagers in his campaign against the background of villagers’ everyday negotiations with the hydropower company. The study shows how…
Linking notions of justice and project outcomes in carbon offset forestry projects: Insights from a comparative study in Uganda
Over the last 20 years, Uganda has emerged as a testing ground for the various modes of carbon forestry used inAfrica. Carbon forestry initiatives in Uganda raise questions of justice, given that people with comparatively negligible carbon footprints are affected by land use changes initiated by the desire of wealthy people, firms, and countries to reduce their more extensive carbon footprints. This paper examines the notions of justice local peo…
Property Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis Revisited
More than two decades ago, Schlager and Ostrom (1992) developed 'a conceptual schema for arraying property-rights regimes that distinguishes among diverse bundles of rights'. The conceptual framework has profoundly influenced research on natural resource governance, common property, and community resource management. However, currently natural resource governance has changed dramatically, challenging the applicability of the conceptual schema. Th…
From food to pest: Conversion factors determine switches between ecosystem services and disservices
Ecosystem research focuses on goods and services, thereby ascribing beneficial values to the ecosystems. Depending on the context, however, outputs from ecosystems can be both positive and negative. We examined how provisioning services of wild animals and plants can switch between being services and disservices. We studied agricultural communities in Laos to illustrate when and why these switches take place. Government restrictions on land use c…
Redd+ on the rocks? Conflict Over Forest and Politics of Justice in Vietnam
In Vietnam, villagers involved in a REDD+ (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) pilot protect areas with rocks which have barely a tree on them. The apparent paradox indicates how actual practices differ from general ideas about REDD+ due to ongoing conflict over forest, and how contestations over the meaning of justice are a core element in negotiations over REDD+. We explore these politics of justice by examining how the…
Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders
Green Revolution policies are again being pursued to drive agricultural growth and reduce poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. However conditions have changed since the well-documented successes of the 1960s and 1970s benefitted smallholders in southern Asia and beyond. We argue that under contemporary constraints the mechanisms for achieving improvements in the lives of smallholder farmers through such policies are unclear and that both policy rationa…
Notions of justice in payments for ecosystem services: Insights from China's Sloping Land Conversion Program in Yunnan Province
Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective
Toward an Empirical Analysis of Justice in Ecosystem Governance
The 2010 Nagoya Protocol under the Convention on Biological Diversity and recent changes in the policies of major international conservation organizations highlight current interest in revisiting the moral case for conservation. Concerns with equity and human rights challenge well‐established notions of justice centered on human responsibility toward nature, the common good or the rights of future generations. This review introduces an empirical …
Can Smallholders Engage in Tree Plantations? An Entitlements Analysis from Vietnam
Globalizing environmental justice
Comparing the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania using boosted regression trees
Global land governance: From territory to flow
Forests, development and the globalisation of justice
Norms of justice are often invoked to justify the globalisation of forest policies but are rarely critically analysed. This paper reviews elements of justice in the values, knowledge, access and property rights relating to forests, especially in developing countries. Rather than defining justice in general terms of distribution of benefits and recognition of stakeholders, we argue that these processes are mutually defining, and can foreclose what…
Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights
Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda
Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach. A selective review of work in landscape aesthetics, cultural heritage, outdoor recreation, and spiritual significance demonstrates opportunit…
The forgotten D: Challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under Redd
International climate negotiations have stressed the importance of considering emissions from forest degradation under the planned REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation + enhancing forest carbon stocks) mechanism. However, most research, pilot-REDD+ projects and carbon certification agencies have focused on deforestation and there appears to be a gap in knowledge on complex mosaic landscapes containing degraded fores…
Tree plantations, politics of possession and the absence of land grabs in Vietnam
Viewed from the lens of 'land grabs', Vietnam's fast-growing tree plantations look like an anomaly; many of them are tiny, owned and operated by rural households. In contrast, private companies and transnational corporations have not been able to get much of a foot into Vietnam's plantation sector. This paper identifies the practices and processes underlying the apparent anomaly. On the basis of fieldwork in four villages, it points to the concre…
Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Upland Transformations considers the effects of economic development, authority formation and landscape change within Vietnam's political economy on the country's 'uplands.' The contributors position the uplands as an integral part of political, economic and cultural processes at the national and international level, an approach that shatters stereotypes of the uplands as a separate ethnic and biophysical realm and raises questions about the assu…
Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk
This article examines the political economy of illegal logging through a case study from Vietnam. The study examines the extraction and trade of a particular timber species through commodity-chain analysis and looks at national-level debates about illegal logging, corruption, and the state. Its findings suggest that central government concerns over authority and public discussions about corruption informed the criminalization of much logging. Cri…
The Politics of Possession: Property, Authority and Access to Natural Resources
Redd-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance
Land Fragmentation and Cropland Abandonment in Albania: Implications for the Roles of State and Community in Post-Socialist Land Consolidation
The Limits of State-Led Land Reform: An Introduction
Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority
In this introduction we argue that access and property regarding natural resources are intimately bound up with the exercise of power and authority. The process of seeking authorizations for property claims also has the effect of granting authority to the authorizing politico-legal institution. In consequence, struggles over natural resources in an institutionally pluralist context are processes of everyday state formation. Through the discussion…
Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective
Property Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis Revisited
More than two decades ago, Schlager and Ostrom (1992) developed 'a conceptual schema for arraying property-rights regimes that distinguishes among diverse bundles of rights'. The conceptual framework has profoundly influenced research on natural resource governance, common property, and community resource management. However, currently natural resource governance has changed dramatically, challenging the applicability of the conceptual schema. Th…
Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders
Green Revolution policies are again being pursued to drive agricultural growth and reduce poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. However conditions have changed since the well-documented successes of the 1960s and 1970s benefitted smallholders in southern Asia and beyond. We argue that under contemporary constraints the mechanisms for achieving improvements in the lives of smallholder farmers through such policies are unclear and that both policy rationa…
The Limits of State-Led Land Reform: An Introduction
Globalizing environmental justice
Redd-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance
Why May Forest Devolution Not Benefit the Rural Poor? Forest Entitlements in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Tree plantations, politics of possession and the absence of land grabs in Vietnam
Viewed from the lens of 'land grabs', Vietnam's fast-growing tree plantations look like an anomaly; many of them are tiny, owned and operated by rural households. In contrast, private companies and transnational corporations have not been able to get much of a foot into Vietnam's plantation sector. This paper identifies the practices and processes underlying the apparent anomaly. On the basis of fieldwork in four villages, it points to the concre…
Forests, development and the globalisation of justice
Norms of justice are often invoked to justify the globalisation of forest policies but are rarely critically analysed. This paper reviews elements of justice in the values, knowledge, access and property rights relating to forests, especially in developing countries. Rather than defining justice in general terms of distribution of benefits and recognition of stakeholders, we argue that these processes are mutually defining, and can foreclose what…
Land Fragmentation and Cropland Abandonment in Albania: Implications for the Roles of State and Community in Post-Socialist Land Consolidation
The allocation of forestry land in Vietnam: Did it cause the expansion of forests in the northwest
Notions of justice in payments for ecosystem services: Insights from China's Sloping Land Conversion Program in Yunnan Province
Global land governance: From territory to flow
Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk
This article examines the political economy of illegal logging through a case study from Vietnam. The study examines the extraction and trade of a particular timber species through commodity-chain analysis and looks at national-level debates about illegal logging, corruption, and the state. Its findings suggest that central government concerns over authority and public discussions about corruption informed the criminalization of much logging. Cri…
The Dynamics of Commoditization in a Vietnamese Uplands Village, 1980-2000
Commodity markets have become key forces transforming upland livelihoods, social relations and landscapes in Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia. This paper examines the processes of market formation and their effects on local livelihoods and social relations in a village of Vietnam's north-western uplands. The results indicate that villagers’ reactions to new opportunities arising from decollectivization and market liberalization wove them int…
The forgotten D: Challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under Redd
International climate negotiations have stressed the importance of considering emissions from forest degradation under the planned REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation + enhancing forest carbon stocks) mechanism. However, most research, pilot-REDD+ projects and carbon certification agencies have focused on deforestation and there appears to be a gap in knowledge on complex mosaic landscapes containing degraded fores…
Can Smallholders Engage in Tree Plantations? An Entitlements Analysis from Vietnam
Politics of rural land registration in post-socialist societies: Contested titling in villages of Northwest Vietnam
Linking notions of justice and project outcomes in carbon offset forestry projects: Insights from a comparative study in Uganda
Over the last 20 years, Uganda has emerged as a testing ground for the various modes of carbon forestry used inAfrica. Carbon forestry initiatives in Uganda raise questions of justice, given that people with comparatively negligible carbon footprints are affected by land use changes initiated by the desire of wealthy people, firms, and countries to reduce their more extensive carbon footprints. This paper examines the notions of justice local peo…
Exclusive versus inclusive devolution in forest management: Insights from forest land allocation in Vietnam's Central Highlands
From legal acts to actual powers: Devolution and property rights in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Analyzing community-based forestry: Local, political and agrarian perspectives
Agrarian Differentiation in Post-Socialist Societies: Evidence from Three Upland Villages in North-Western Vietnam
The literature on post-socialist transformations displays a fairly broad consensus that changes in macro structures of state and economy generate or increase rural inequality. This article examines the distributional effects of macro changes in Vietnamese villages. Findings from local-level research highlight the multiple ways in which people react to changes in macro structures. Core fields of negotiation by local people include exchange relatio…
Negotiating Post-Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania
Since the demise of socialism, countries of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced intense negotiations over access and property. This article uses four case studies on struggles over forest in Albania and Romania to examine how these negotiations intersect with processes constituting authority. The cases demonstrate significant variations in the configurations of property and authority regarding forest, but they also reflect the influence o…
Participatory methods and empowerment in rural development: Lessons from two experimental workshops with a Chilean NGO
Economic and Environmental Dynamics of Reform in Vietnam
Research Article| June 01 1996 Economic and Environmental Dynamics of Reform in Vietnam Thomas O. Sikor, Thomas O. Sikor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dara O'Rourke Dara O'Rourke Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (6): 601–617. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645794 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Pe…
The allocation of forestry land in Vietnam: Did it cause the expansion of forests in the northwest
Agrarian Differentiation in Post-Socialist Societies: Evidence from Three Upland Villages in North-Western Vietnam
The literature on post-socialist transformations displays a fairly broad consensus that changes in macro structures of state and economy generate or increase rural inequality. This article examines the distributional effects of macro changes in Vietnamese villages. Findings from local-level research highlight the multiple ways in which people react to changes in macro structures. Core fields of negotiation by local people include exchange relatio…
Agricultural Policy and Land Use Changes in a Black Thai Commune of Northern Vietnam, 1952–1997
Vietnamese agricultural policy has changed radically during the past 5 decades. Decollectivization in the 1980s and 1990s followed 2 decades of collective agriculture. This article examines the effects of agricultural policy on land use. It reports the results of remote image interpretation and socioeconomic field study in a Black Thai commune in Vietnam's northern mountains. It suggests that the landscape in the commune has been highly dynamic a…
From legal acts to actual powers: Devolution and property rights in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Analyzing community-based forestry: Local, political and agrarian perspectives
Property and Agri‐Environmental Legislation Europe
Governments across Central and Eastern Europe have enacted agri‐environmental legislation over the past decade. This paper explores how the legislation has played out in practice, using property as an analytical lens to examine the social dynamics surrounding agri‐environmental problems. The analysis proceeds by way of three case studies on irrigation management in Bulgaria, biodiversity conservation in the Czech Republic, and the preservation of…
The Dynamics of Commoditization in a Vietnamese Uplands Village, 1980-2000
Commodity markets have become key forces transforming upland livelihoods, social relations and landscapes in Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia. This paper examines the processes of market formation and their effects on local livelihoods and social relations in a village of Vietnam's north-western uplands. The results indicate that villagers’ reactions to new opportunities arising from decollectivization and market liberalization wove them int…
Changing Properties of Property
Politics of rural land registration in post-socialist societies: Contested titling in villages of Northwest Vietnam
Why May Forest Devolution Not Benefit the Rural Poor? Forest Entitlements in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Exclusive versus inclusive devolution in forest management: Insights from forest land allocation in Vietnam's Central Highlands
Land Fragmentation and Cropland Abandonment in Albania: Implications for the Roles of State and Community in Post-Socialist Land Consolidation
The Limits of State-Led Land Reform: An Introduction
Negotiating Post-Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania
Since the demise of socialism, countries of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced intense negotiations over access and property. This article uses four case studies on struggles over forest in Albania and Romania to examine how these negotiations intersect with processes constituting authority. The cases demonstrate significant variations in the configurations of property and authority regarding forest, but they also reflect the influence o…
Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority
In this introduction we argue that access and property regarding natural resources are intimately bound up with the exercise of power and authority. The process of seeking authorizations for property claims also has the effect of granting authority to the authorizing politico-legal institution. In consequence, struggles over natural resources in an institutionally pluralist context are processes of everyday state formation. Through the discussion…
The Politics of Possession: Property, Authority and Access to Natural Resources
Redd-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance
Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Upland Transformations considers the effects of economic development, authority formation and landscape change within Vietnam's political economy on the country's 'uplands.' The contributors position the uplands as an integral part of political, economic and cultural processes at the national and international level, an approach that shatters stereotypes of the uplands as a separate ethnic and biophysical realm and raises questions about the assu…
Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk
This article examines the political economy of illegal logging through a case study from Vietnam. The study examines the extraction and trade of a particular timber species through commodity-chain analysis and looks at national-level debates about illegal logging, corruption, and the state. Its findings suggest that central government concerns over authority and public discussions about corruption informed the criminalization of much logging. Cri…
Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights
Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda
Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach. A selective review of work in landscape aesthetics, cultural heritage, outdoor recreation, and spiritual significance demonstrates opportunit…
The forgotten D: Challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under Redd
International climate negotiations have stressed the importance of considering emissions from forest degradation under the planned REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation + enhancing forest carbon stocks) mechanism. However, most research, pilot-REDD+ projects and carbon certification agencies have focused on deforestation and there appears to be a gap in knowledge on complex mosaic landscapes containing degraded fores…
Tree plantations, politics of possession and the absence of land grabs in Vietnam
Viewed from the lens of 'land grabs', Vietnam's fast-growing tree plantations look like an anomaly; many of them are tiny, owned and operated by rural households. In contrast, private companies and transnational corporations have not been able to get much of a foot into Vietnam's plantation sector. This paper identifies the practices and processes underlying the apparent anomaly. On the basis of fieldwork in four villages, it points to the concre…
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