Perceptions of Change in Vietnam

Human Environmental Values in a Peri-urban Area of Southeast Vietnam

Eva Fuhrmann

• Publisher: regiospectra Verlag Berlin
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9783940132840
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Since the early 1990s, Vietnam is experiencing rapid economic growth, initiated by the ??i m?i reforms. While these policies improved living standards for many people in Vietnam, the economic growth also intensified threats to the natural environment through rising pollution. At the same time, Vietnam faces the adverse effects of phenomena like global climate change. Against this background, Perceptions of Change in Vietnam looks at the cognitive aspects of human-nature relations in Vietnam: What is nature? What kind of changes do people notice in their local natural environment? How do they explain these changes? And where do they see their own responsibilities in this context? Based on fieldwork in a peri-urban hamlet in the Southeast of Vietnam, this qualitative study paints a diverse picture of the perceptions of the local natural environment.

Table of contents

• Cover “Perceptions of Change in Vietnam”
• Title
• Imprint
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Glossary
• List of Tables and Figures
• 1 Environmental Awareness in Vietnam – An Introduction
• 2 Human-Nature Relations: The Current State of Research
• 3 Applying Research about Environmental Awareness in Rural Vietnam
• 4 State and People in Vietnam
• 5 The Natural Environment and its Conceptions
• 6 Society and Nature
• 7 Everyday Knowledge of Nature in Times of Change
• 8 Environmental Attitudes, Politics and Worldviews
• 9 Bringing the Threads Together
• 10 Environmental Awareness in Vietnam – A Conclusion
• References