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Phuc Xuan To

Research Fellow

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Phone: +612 6125 6983

Room: Crawford 3.40

BOOK

Sikor, T. S. Dorondel, J. Stahl and P. To. 2018. When Things Become Property: Land reform, authority, and value in postsocialist Europe and Asia. Berghahn Books.

P. To. 2007. Forest Property in the Vietnamese Uplands: An Ethnography of Forest Relations in Three Dao Villages. Berlin and London: LIT Verlag/Transaction Publishers

ARTICLE

To, P. and S. Mahanty. 2019. Vietnam’s cross-border timber crackdown and the quest for state legitimacy. Political Geography, https://doi-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102066.

To, P., S. Mahanty and A. Wells-Dang. 2019. From “Land to the Tiller” to the “New Land Lords”? The Debate over Vietnam’s Lastest Land Reforms. Land. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/8/8/120

Milne, S., Mahanty, S., To, P., Dressler, W., Kanowski, P., Thavat, M. 2019. ‘Learning from ‘actually existing’ REDD+: A synthesis of ethnographic findings’. Conservation & Society 17(1): 84-95

To, P. 2019. Review of the Book Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam by Pamela McElwee. The Journal of Asian Studies. Doi:doi:10.1017/S0021911819000512

To, P. and W. Dressler. 2019. Rethinking ‘Success’: The politics of payment for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam. Land Use Policy, 81:582-593.

Ingalls, M., P. Meyfroidt, To, P., M.,Kenney-Lazar, and M. Eppecht. 2018. The transboundary of deforestration under REDD+: Problematic intersections between the trade of forest-risk commodities and land grabbing in the Mekong region. Global Environmental Change, 50: 255-267.

To, P., W. Dressler, S. Mahanty. 2017. REDD+ for Red Books? Negotiating rights to land and livelihoods through carbon governance in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Geoforum, 81, 163-173.

To, P. S. Mahanty, W. Dressler. 2016. Moral economy and market:’Insider’ cassava trading in Kon Tum, Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 57(2): 168-179.

To, P. 2015. State Territorialization and Illegal Logging: The Dynamic Relationships between Practices and Images of the State in Vietnam. Critical Asian Studies, 47:2, 229-252. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2015.1041278

Dressler, W. D. Wilson, J. Clendenning, R. Laslo, R. Cramb, R. Keenan, S. Mahanty, D. Gervana, P. To. 2015. How do long-fallow swidden systems impact upon livelihood and ecosystem serves outcomes compared with alternative land uses in the uplands of Southeast Asia? Journal of Development Effectiveness, DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2014.991799

To, P., S. Mahanty, W. Dressler. 2015. A New Landlord’ (địa chủ mới)? Community, Land Conflict and State Forest Companies (SFCs) in Vietnam, Forest Policy and Economics, DOI: 10. 1016/j.forpol.2014.10.005

W. Dressler, S. Mahanty, J. Clendenning, To, P. 2015. Rearticulating Governance through Carbon in the Lao PDR? Environment and Planning C, DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2014.991799

Mai, V.T and P. To. 2015. A system thinking approach for achieving a better understanding of swidden cultivation in Vietnam. Human Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-015-9722-8

To, P., S. Mahanty, W. Dressler. 2014. Networks of Corruption in Vietnamese and Lao Cross-border Timber Trade, Anthropological Forum, 24 (2):1–21

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, 11, 130-143.

To, 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

Sikor, T. and To, P. 2011. Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk. Society & Natural Resources, 24: 7, 688-701

To, 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, 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

BOOK CHAPTER

To, P. 2013. Legal Rights to Resources Versus Forest Access in the Vietnamese Uplands, In State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam. Hue-Tam H.T.; M. Sidel (eds.) London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 71-86.

To, 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. Pp. 143-155

To, 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. Pp.99-110

To, 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. Pp.208-227

To, 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. Pp.21-44

To, P. 2009. Elite Capture and Local Inequality In Politics of Devolution in Southeast Asia. P. Vandergeest and C. Vitayapak (eds.). Chiangmai: Mekong Press

To, 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

POLICY PAPER (2017-2018)

Nguyen, Q., To, P., Cao, C. and Nguyen, Q., 2018. Linking smallholder plantations to global markets: Lessons learned from the IKEA model in Vietnam._ Washington D.C.: Forest Trends.

To, P., Dang, Q., Nguyen, Q. and Cao, C., 2018. Vietnam wood market in market integration context. _Hanoi: VIFOREST and Forest Trends.

To, P., Tran, H., Cao, C. and Nguyen, Q. 2018. Vietnam’s import and export of wood and wood products: Current situation and future trends. Hanoi: _VIFORES and Forest Trends.

To, P., Tran, H., Cao, C., Nguyen, Q. and Huynh, H., 2018. Vietnam’s import of wood from Africa: Current situation and risks. Hanoi: _VIFORES and Forest Trends.

To, P., Tran, H., Cao, C., Nguyen, Q. and Huynh, H., 2018. Timber trade between Vietnam and the United State. Hanoi: _VIFORES and Forest Trends.

To, P., Tran, H., Cao, C., Nguyen, Q. and Huynh, H., 2018. Timber trade between Vietnam and China. Hanoi: _VIFORES and Forest Trends.

To, P., 2017. Linkages in wood sector in Vietnam for better values. _Hanoi: Forest Trends.

To, P. and Dang, Q., 2017. Linkages in rubber sector in Vietnam: Opportunity and risk. _Hanoi: Forest Trends.

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