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Editors
Tr!n "#c Viên is an Associate Professor of the Hanoi University of Agriculture,
where he has served as the Rector since late 2006. He teaches courses onagroecology, farming systems research and development, and environmentalmanagement. He played a key role in the creation of the HUA Center for
Agricultural Research and Environmental Studies (CARES) and serves as its
director. CARES is a multi-disciplinary center with a mandate to do research
designed to help farmers enhance their knowledge, increase agricultural
productivity, and encourage environmental protection and sustainable
development of agriculture and rural areas. He has conducted research on
upland development in Vietnam for many years, often working in collaboration
with researchers from different disciplines and institutions, both national andinternational. While trained as a crop and land management scientist (Ph.D. from
HUA, 1998), his research has focused on the relationship between the different
cultures, farming systems, and the environment of Vietnam’s mountains. Heis particularly concerned with the relationship between the diverse indigenous
cultures found in the different parts of the uplands and the farming systems
on which they rely for their subsistence. He has published numerous articles,reports, and books of which the most recent are: (1) Tr! n "#c Viên, A.TerryRambo, Nguy$ n Thanh Lâm, eds, 2008, Canh tá c n!"ng r# y: M$t góc nhìn(Swidden Agriculture: A Point of View). Hanoi: Agricultural Publishing House;(2) Tr! n "#c Viên and Nguy$n Thanh Lâm, 2006. Sinh thái h%c &'ng ru$ng:(Crop Ecology: TextbookGiáo trình dùng cho sinh viên &(i h%c và sau &(ifor undergraduate and graduate levels), Hanoi: Agricultural Publishing House;and (3) Tr!n "#c Viên, Nguy$n Vinh Quang, Mai V%n Thành, 2005, The Impactsof Decentralization of Forest Management on Livelihoods of Ethnic Minority
Groups in the Vietnam’s Uplands, Hanoi: Agricultural Publishing House.
Email: tdvien@hua.edu.vn
A. Terry Rambo is Special Professor in the Program on System Approaches
in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He isalso an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the East-West Center and a Visiting Professor
at the Hanoi University of Agriculture. From 2000 to 2004 he was a Professorof the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. Prior to joining

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the EWC Representative in Vietnam from 1997 to 2000. He was a lecturer inthe Department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Malaya(1975-1980) and Visiting Professor of Social Science at the Dalat University
Graduate School of Politics and Economics in Saigon (1973-1975). He has aPh.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii (1972) and has conductedeld research in Belize, Vietnam, and Malaysia. He has published extensively onVietnamese culture and society, the Orang Asli of Malaysia, problems of uplanddevelopment, and human ecology in Southeast Asia. His most recent book is
Searching for Vietnam, 2004, Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacic Press.
Email: rambo@kku.ac.th.
Nguy$n Thanh Lâm is the Executive Director of the Center for Agricultural
Research and Ecological Studies (CARES), Hanoi University of Agriculture,and the Chair of the Department of Environmental Technology. He holds a Ph.D.
in Agronomy from Khon Kaen University (2005). His areas of specialization
are agroecology, soil science, biodiversity conservation, and environmental
protection. He is a country coordinator for number of regional projects on
upland farming systems, neglected and underutilized plant species, plant
genetic resources, cross-boundary watershed management between Vietnamand Laos, and environmental planning and management for Cambodia, Laos,and Vietnam. He has published papers in several international and Vietnamese
journals, including Agricultural Sustainability, Agriculture, Ecosystems andEnvironment, Agricultural Systems, Southeast Asian Studies, and Biodiversity
Conservation. His most recent books include: (1) Tr! n "# c Viên, A.TerryRambo, Nguy$ n Thanh Lâm, eds, 2008, Canh tá c n!"ng r# y: M$t góc nhìn(Swidden Agriculture: A Point of View). Hanoi: Agricultural Publishing House;(2) Tr! n "#c Viên and Nguy$n Thanh Lâm, 2006, Sinh thái h%c &'ng ru$ng:Giáo trình dùng cho sinh viên &(i h%c và sau &(i h%c (Crop Ecology: Textbook forundergraduate and graduate levels), Hanoi: Agricultural Publishing House.
Email: lamnt@cares.org.vn

Associate Editors
Neil L. Jamieson has spent eighteen years working in Asia, thirteen of themin Vietnam. Much of his work has been related to the intersection of culture,environment, and development in Southeast Asia. His interests and writings
extend into continuity and change in Vietnamese culture, art and literature, theLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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sociology of development, and ethnic minority issues. He served for over twoyears as a Provincial Representative for the U.S. Aid mission in South Vietnam(1963-1965), including 18 months in upland areas; participated in the study ofthe effects of herbicide use in Vietnam for the National Academy of Sciences;
worked on environmental and development issues at the East West Center(1982-1988); headed the Winrock International ofce in Hanoi (1993-1998);
and has carried out numerous consultancies for the World Bank, FAO, theAsia Development Bank, the Swedish International Development Agency, andother organizations. He has taught at the University of Hawaii and Chaminade
University in Hawaii and conducted many teaching and training seminars on
the human dimensions of upland development in Vietnam in conjunction withVietnam National University, Hanoi, and the Hanoi University of Agriculture.
He co-authored, with Lê Tr&ng Cúc and A. Terry Rambo, The Development
Crisis in Vietnam’s Mountains, published in both Vietnamese and English.
His other writings include Understanding Vietnam (University of CaliforniaPress, 1993) and numerous articles for scholarly journals and encyclopedias, aswell as working papers and consultant reports concerned with issues of uplanddevelopment in Vietnam.
Email: njamieson@verizon.net
Stephen J. Leisz is Assistant Professor of Geography at Colorado State
University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His area of specialization is the monitoringof land use / land cover change in montane mainland Southeast Asia and recent
farming systems changes in the region. He has a Ph.D. in Geography from theUniversity of Copenhagen (2007) and an M.Sc. in Environmental Monitoring,with an emphasis on remote sensing and GIS, from the University of WisconsinMadison (1996). He has done extended field research in Madagascar andVietnam, where between 1997 and 2007 he carried out investigations on land useand land cover change in the Northern Mountain Region. From 1997 to 1999 hewas an East-West Center Researcher working in conjunction with CRES, of theVietnam National University, Hanoi. From 2000 to 2007 he was employed by theInstitute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, to work in collaboration withthe Center for Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies of Hanoi Universityof Agriculture in north-central and northern Vietnam. In 2007 he worked for theBishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, and continues to collaborate with museum
personnel on several projects related to climate change in Melanesia. In 2008 hewas a visiting fellow at Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies
and he co-organized the Demise of Swidden in Southeast Asia workshop andconference in Hanoi, Vietnam. As part of that conference he also co-organized
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has published several papers on farming system and land use/land cover changes
in Vietnam and Yunnan, China.
Email: steve.leisz@colostate.eduAuthors
Georg Cadisch, Professor of Plant Production in the Tropics and Subtropics,
Institute of Plant Production and Agroecology, and Director of the Tropenzentrum,
University Hohenheim, Germany"'ng Vi(t Quang, Fellow for Agricultural Economics, Center for Agricultural
Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam"ào Minh Tr)* ng, Researcher, Center for Natural Resources and Environmental
Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi"ào Tr&ng H)ng, Senior Researcher, The Institute of Ecology and Biological
Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam
Deanna Donovan, Environmental Economics Adviser, Joint Nature Conservation
Committee (JNCC), Peterborough, UK
Ingrid Foik, independent scholar, Chestnut Ridge, N. Y., USA, formerly visiting
lecturer in agricultural economics, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam
Jefferson Fox, Coordinator of Environmental Studies and Senior Fellow, theEast-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848-1601, USALê Quang Trung, Researcher, Center for Natural Resources and EnvironmentalStudies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and Research Assistant, Vietnam
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency Cooperation Programme
Mai V%n Thành, Lecturer, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Hanoi
University of Agriculture, Vietnam
Nghiêm Ph)+ng Tuy, n, Researcher, the Center for Natural Resources andEnvironmental Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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Nguy$n "ình Ti,n, Researcher for Agricultural Economics, Center for Agricultural
Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam
Nguy$n Th, Ph)+ng, Researcher for Forestry, Center for Agricultural Researchand Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam
Nguy$n Th- Bích Yên, Lecturer, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment,
Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam, and Ph.D. student, The University ofTokyo, Japan
Nguy$n Th- H.i Ninh, Researcher for Economic and Policy Analysis, Center for
Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture,
VietnamNguy$n Th- Minh Hi/n, Research Fellow, Agricultural Economics and RuralDevelopment, Hanoi University of Agriculture, VietnamNguy$n Th- Thu Hà , Research Fellow, Center for Agricultural Research andEcological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam, and Ph.D. Fellow,
International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),
The Netherlands
Nguy$n V%n Dung, Associate Professor for Hydrology and Irrigation, Center for
Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture,
VietnamNông H0 u D)+ng, Researcher for Natural Research Management, Center for
Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture,
Vietnam
Aran Patanothai, Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Science andAgricultural Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon
Kaen 40002, Thailand
Ph1m Th- Dung, Researcher for Crop Science, Center for Agricultural Researchand Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam
Ph1m Th- Mai H)+ng, Researcher for Agricultural Economics, Center for Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam

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Tr! n Chí Trung, Research Fellow, the Center for Natural Resources andEnvironmental Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Tr! n M1 nh T)* ng, Researcher for Plant Sciences, Center for Agricultural
Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam
Tr! n Nguyên B2 ng, Researcher for Land Resources, Center for Agricultural
Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam
Tr-nh Th- Ti(n, Researcher, International Relations Ofce, Nông Lâm University,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Patma Vityakon, Associate Professor of Soil Science, Land Resources andEnvironment Section, Department of Plant Science and Agricultural Resources,
Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, ThailandVõ H0 u Công, Researcher for Natural Research Management, Center for
Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies, Hanoi University of Agriculture,Vietnam
V3 Th- Thao, Ph.D. Fellow, Institute of Geography & Geology, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark