Jefferson Fox
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3590221 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jefferson Fox |
| PRENOMES | Jefferson |
| SOBRENOME | Fox |
| ASSINATURA | FOX J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | East–West Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0508-654X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 431 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Out-migration, agricultural abandonment, and community forest management
Impacts of migration on time allocation of those who remain at home in rural Nepal
This paper examines the effects of migration on time allocation in work activities of left‐behind family members in Nepal with attention to gender and age. Based on Nepal's Labor Force Survey, we find that, in response to an outmigration of a family member, working‐age women allocate more time towards agriculture and domestic and care work, while the amount of time working‐age men and women spend on collecting water and firewood also rises. Migra…
Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand
This paper contributes to new understandings of agrarian transition for smallholder rice farming in Southeast Asia through quantitative data analysis from Thailand’s two main rice growing regions. Despite economic modernization models predicting a farm-size transition of smallholder agriculture to large-scale commercial farms with the onset of industrialization and urban employment opportunities, we find rice farmers continue to persist and defy …
Community forest management led to rapid local forest gain in Nepal
Forest, agriculture, and migration
Nepal has experienced rapid transitions in forest and agricultural practices over the last several decades. This study compares surveys of forest cover, land use, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of six sites in Sindhu Kabhre and Palanchok Districts conducted in 1992 and 2017. We correlated these transformations with changes in forest cover as documented with remotely sensed images. We found that forest cover has increased tremendous…
The Use of Spatial Metrics and Population Data in Mapping the Rural-Urban Transition and Exploring Models of Urban Growth in Hanoi, Vietnam
The process by which cities (or urban areas) expand over time has remained a key focus for geographers, ecologists and other scientists interested in urban phenomena for decades. This study investigated the use of spatial metrics and population data for defining and mapping rural-urban transition zones in Hanoi and exploring urban growth models. The analysis showed that in 2010, about 30% of communes within Hanoi could be defined as rural, 38% as…
Emerging infectious disease, the household built environment characteristics, and urban planning
Land grabs and labour
Since the early 2000s the Lao government has dramatically increased the number of large‐scale land concessions issued for agribusinesses. While studies have documented the social and environmental impacts of land dispossession, the role of Vietnamese labour on these Vietnamese‐owned rubber plantations has not previously been investigated. Taking a political ecology approach, we situate this study at the intersection between ‘land grabbing’ studie…
Commuting distances to local non‐farm workplaces and out‐migration
The relationship between commuting distances and where people work has been studied for urban contexts in both developed countries and developing countries. However, few studies have examined the situation in rural areas, and none look at commuting distances to non‐farm workplaces in rural areas of developing countries. This paper investigates how commuting distance, and thus accessibility, to local non‐farm work influences non‐farm employment an…
Community forestry, labor migration and agrarian change in a Nepali village
This paper follows forest conditions, agricultural practices, and livelihoods in a Nepali village between 1980 and 2010. A survey was administered to all village households in 1980, 1990 and 2010; semi-structured interviews were also conducted. Tree species frequency, density and dominance were determined for eight forest patches during each survey. Over this period the population of the village remained stable; the number of children decreased, …
Perceived Risk of Avian Influenza and Urbanization in Northern Vietnam
The influence of local non-farm employment on rural household structure in Northeast Thailand
Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods
An Exploration of How Perceptions of the Risk of Avian Influenza in Poultry Relate to Urbanization in Vietnam
Through the Technology Lens
Natural latex from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is a hot commodity, with consumption increasing worldwide at an average rate of 5.8% per year since 1900. The vast majority of the world's rubber supply has historically come from the wet-humid tropics of Southeast Asia, but researchers in China have successfully developed new hybrids that grow well in areas with cooler temperatures and a distinct dry season. Today, investors are promoting r…
Agriculture in the Mountains of Northeastern Thailand
The mountains in northeastern Thailand cover an area of about 25,000 km2, which is about 15% of the region's land surface. Although agriculture is the most important economic activity in the mountains, there has been little previous research on it. This study presents a general description of mountain agriculture in northeastern Thailand, which is shown to be quite different from the better-known agriculture in Thailand's northern mountains. The …
Swidden, rubber and carbon
Expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in Mainland Southeast Asia
The rubber tree is native to the humid tropics and has traditionally been cropped in the equatorial zone between 10°N and 10°S; in mainland Southeast Asia this includes portions of southern Thailand, southeastern Vietnam, and southern Myanmar. In the early 1950s, the Chinese government began to invest in growing rubber in environments perceived to be ecologically marginal and eventually established state rubber plantations in areas that lie as fa…
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers
Integrating livelihoods and conservation in protected areas
Protected areas (PAs) represent a key global strategy in biodiversity conservation. In tropical developing countries, the management of PAs is a great challenge as many contain resources on which local communities rely. Collection and trading of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is a well-established forest-based livelihood strategy, which has been promoted as a potential means for enhanced conservation and improved rural livelihoods in recent y…
The Rubber Juggernaut
The demise of swidden cultivation in Southeast Asia may have devastating environmental consequences.
Understanding Changes in Land and Forest Resource Management Systems
This paper draws on case studies from three communities in Ratanakiri to illustrate both the forces driving land-use and tenure change as well as how effective community stewardship can guide agricultural transitions.The study combines a time series of remotely sensed data from 1989 to 2006 to evaluate changes in land use, and relates this data to in-depth ground truth observations and social research from three villages.The methodology was desig…
Swidden Change in Southeast Asia
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Introduction
The papers in this special issue are the product of a comparative interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Natural Resources and Violent Ethnic Conflicts in the Asia Pacific Region’ held in Honolulu, Hawaii, 18–20 March 2005. The workshop brought together scholars who study conflicts between ethnic groups and those who study conflicts over natural resource claims in order to examine the interplay of resources and ethnicity and to seek answers to the questi…
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers
Swidden Change in Southeast Asia
Expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in Mainland Southeast Asia
The rubber tree is native to the humid tropics and has traditionally been cropped in the equatorial zone between 10°N and 10°S; in mainland Southeast Asia this includes portions of southern Thailand, southeastern Vietnam, and southern Myanmar. In the early 1950s, the Chinese government began to invest in growing rubber in environments perceived to be ecologically marginal and eventually established state rubber plantations in areas that lie as fa…
The Demise of Swidden in Southeast Asia? Local Realities and Regional Ambiguities
Swidden farmers throughout Southeast Asia are rapidly abandoning traditional land use practices. While these changes have been quantified in numerous local areas, no reliable region-wide data have been produced. In this article we discuss three linked issues that account for at least some of this knowledge gap. First, swidden is a diverse, complex, and dynamic land use that data gatherers find difficult to see, define and measure, and therefore o…
Swidden, rubber and carbon
Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods
Community forestry, labor migration and agrarian change in a Nepali village
This paper follows forest conditions, agricultural practices, and livelihoods in a Nepali village between 1980 and 2010. A survey was administered to all village households in 1980, 1990 and 2010; semi-structured interviews were also conducted. Tree species frequency, density and dominance were determined for eight forest patches during each survey. Over this period the population of the village remained stable; the number of children decreased, …
Siam Mapped and Mapping in Cambodia
This article explores differences and similarities between the introduction of mapping into Thailand in the beginning of the nineteenth century and efforts to map customary land use in Cambodia at the end of the 20th century. The comparison suggests that indigenous conceptions of space have been overwhelmed by the need to have a location that can be recognized by political power. That mapping should not stop with the delineation of boundaries but…
Forest, agriculture, and migration
Nepal has experienced rapid transitions in forest and agricultural practices over the last several decades. This study compares surveys of forest cover, land use, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of six sites in Sindhu Kabhre and Palanchok Districts conducted in 1992 and 2017. We correlated these transformations with changes in forest cover as documented with remotely sensed images. We found that forest cover has increased tremendous…
The influence of local non-farm employment on rural household structure in Northeast Thailand
Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand
This paper contributes to new understandings of agrarian transition for smallholder rice farming in Southeast Asia through quantitative data analysis from Thailand’s two main rice growing regions. Despite economic modernization models predicting a farm-size transition of smallholder agriculture to large-scale commercial farms with the onset of industrialization and urban employment opportunities, we find rice farmers continue to persist and defy …
Community forest management led to rapid local forest gain in Nepal
Introduction
The papers in this special issue are the product of a comparative interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Natural Resources and Violent Ethnic Conflicts in the Asia Pacific Region’ held in Honolulu, Hawaii, 18–20 March 2005. The workshop brought together scholars who study conflicts between ethnic groups and those who study conflicts over natural resource claims in order to examine the interplay of resources and ethnicity and to seek answers to the questi…
Development Trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region. Volume 1
Livestock Ownership Patterns in a Nepali Village
Recent reports (Wyatt-Smith, 1981; Fox, 1983) indicate that the livestock population of Nepal exceeds available feed resources and that overgrazing causes severe land degradation. Knowledge of livestock ownership patterns and factors that influence livestock ownership is thus important to land management programmes. Currently, these patterns are poorly understood and theories to explain livestock ownership are controversial. Attention has been fo…
Forest Resources in a Nepali Village in 1980 and 1990
This paper describes changes in forest condition and forest management practices in a Nepali village between 1980 and 1990, and attempts to identify the factors behind these changes. In 1980-81 the author spent a year studying forest-use practices and forest products in a villagein the Middle Hills of central Nepal. Species composition, density (tree/ha), and tree size (area) were described. The quantity of forest products collected from forest l…
Introduction
(1995). Introduction: Society and non‐timber forest products in Asia. Society & Natural Resources: Vol. 8, Society and Non‐Timber Forest Products in Asia, pp. 189-191
Effects of Swidden Cultivation, State Policies, and Customary Institutions on Land Cover in a Hani Village, Yunnan, China
Xu Jianchu, Jefferson Fox, Lu Xing, Nancy Podger, Stephen Leisz, Ai Xihui, Effects of Swidden Cultivation, State Policies, and Customary Institutions on Land Cover in a Hani Village, Yunnan, China, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 19, No. 2 (May, 1999), pp. 123-132
State Policies, Markets, Land-Use Practices, and Common Property
This paper investigates changes in land cover, land-tenure policies, and market pressures in Baka village, Yunnan Province, China. Before 1950 local farmers engaged in many forms of collective behavior including common property management, religious rites, and other activities led by clan leaders. Between 1950 and 1978 peoples' communes governed the management of most lands. All farming activities were organized, and the amount of land to be farm…
Development Trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region. Volume 1
Siam Mapped and Mapping in Cambodia
This article explores differences and similarities between the introduction of mapping into Thailand in the beginning of the nineteenth century and efforts to map customary land use in Cambodia at the end of the 20th century. The comparison suggests that indigenous conceptions of space have been overwhelmed by the need to have a location that can be recognized by political power. That mapping should not stop with the delineation of boundaries but…
People and the Environment
Flexible Networking in Research Capacity Building at the National University of Laos
This paper describes a research-training project for building social science research capacity at the National University of Laos (NUOL),supported by IDRC. At the international level, the project was structured as a flexible network of resource persons from six countries. The main successes of the project turned out to be unanticipated: the project offered significant insights to NUOL's ongoing assessment of its administrative capacity to manage …
Developing a science of land change
Land-change science has emerged as a foundational element of global environment change and sustainability science. It seeks to understand the human and environment dynamics that give rise to changed land uses and covers, not only in terms of their type and magnitude but their location as well. This focus requires the integration of social, natural, and geographical information sciences. Each of these broad research communities has developed diffe…
Avian Influenza (H5N1) and the Evolutionary and Social Ecology of Infectious Disease Emergence
Land Use Transition, Livelihoods, and Environmental Services in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia
The present article provides an overview of the status of land use and land cover change science in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in the context of a Mobile Workshop. Outcomes of the Mobile Workshop highlighted the rapid changes in land use and livelihoods, largely driven by the development of transport links, increasing market access, and trade liberalization. While many of these changes are likely to be beneficial, they must be carefully moni…
The Demise of Swidden in Southeast Asia? Local Realities and Regional Ambiguities
Swidden farmers throughout Southeast Asia are rapidly abandoning traditional land use practices. While these changes have been quantified in numerous local areas, no reliable region-wide data have been produced. In this article we discuss three linked issues that account for at least some of this knowledge gap. First, swidden is a diverse, complex, and dynamic land use that data gatherers find difficult to see, define and measure, and therefore o…
Introduction
The papers in this special issue are the product of a comparative interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Natural Resources and Violent Ethnic Conflicts in the Asia Pacific Region’ held in Honolulu, Hawaii, 18–20 March 2005. The workshop brought together scholars who study conflicts between ethnic groups and those who study conflicts over natural resource claims in order to examine the interplay of resources and ethnicity and to seek answers to the questi…
The Rubber Juggernaut
The demise of swidden cultivation in Southeast Asia may have devastating environmental consequences.
Understanding Changes in Land and Forest Resource Management Systems
This paper draws on case studies from three communities in Ratanakiri to illustrate both the forces driving land-use and tenure change as well as how effective community stewardship can guide agricultural transitions.The study combines a time series of remotely sensed data from 1989 to 2006 to evaluate changes in land use, and relates this data to in-depth ground truth observations and social research from three villages.The methodology was desig…
Swidden Change in Southeast Asia
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Integrating livelihoods and conservation in protected areas
Protected areas (PAs) represent a key global strategy in biodiversity conservation. In tropical developing countries, the management of PAs is a great challenge as many contain resources on which local communities rely. Collection and trading of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is a well-established forest-based livelihood strategy, which has been promoted as a potential means for enhanced conservation and improved rural livelihoods in recent y…
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers
Swidden, rubber and carbon
Expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in Mainland Southeast Asia
The rubber tree is native to the humid tropics and has traditionally been cropped in the equatorial zone between 10°N and 10°S; in mainland Southeast Asia this includes portions of southern Thailand, southeastern Vietnam, and southern Myanmar. In the early 1950s, the Chinese government began to invest in growing rubber in environments perceived to be ecologically marginal and eventually established state rubber plantations in areas that lie as fa…
An Exploration of How Perceptions of the Risk of Avian Influenza in Poultry Relate to Urbanization in Vietnam
Through the Technology Lens
Natural latex from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is a hot commodity, with consumption increasing worldwide at an average rate of 5.8% per year since 1900. The vast majority of the world's rubber supply has historically come from the wet-humid tropics of Southeast Asia, but researchers in China have successfully developed new hybrids that grow well in areas with cooler temperatures and a distinct dry season. Today, investors are promoting r…
Agriculture in the Mountains of Northeastern Thailand
The mountains in northeastern Thailand cover an area of about 25,000 km2, which is about 15% of the region's land surface. Although agriculture is the most important economic activity in the mountains, there has been little previous research on it. This study presents a general description of mountain agriculture in northeastern Thailand, which is shown to be quite different from the better-known agriculture in Thailand's northern mountains. The …
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