Looking for Vietnam Environmental Related Study Papers

From: Tom Fox [mailto:thomascfox@gmail.com]

Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 11:56 PM

To: vsg@u.washington.edu

Subject: [Vsg] Looking for Vietnam environmental related study papers

Dear Vietnam scholars,

Permit me briefly to introduce myself. I have been a member of this group only a short time. I am a graduate some decades back of Yale’s Southeast Asian study program and had the very good fortune to study Vietnamese history under John Whitmore and Vietnamese literature under Huynh San Thong. I’ve had a 50-year relationship with Vietnam, 47 of those years married to a Vietnamese from Can Tho.

Alas, I write in another capacity today. I have a Vietnamese grand niece currently studying at Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana. She is taking a environmental class, which I sort of nudged her into, knowing how important environmental issues are – and will continue to be – to Vietnam' future, especially in the Mekong delta, which is her home.

Wondering if any of you fine scholars could send me links to Vietnam environmental study/research papers. Maybe you’ve already written some or know of others. I am particularly interested – and hope Co Nga will be too – in the challenges facing the people in the south because of environmental issues surrounding the Mekong river. Trying to lead her a bit and expose her to a bit of this subject matter.

I don’t want to clutter this fine website with my minor request. I do think we could have a budding Vietnamese scholar studying in South Bend, now as a sophomore.

Anyway, if any of you is so inclined, could you kindly send me your thoughts or study links to my email address at: thomascfox@gmail.com?

Tom Fox

Former International Voluntary Service volunteer in Vietnam (’66-’68)

Former Yale graduate student (’69-’70)

Former Vietnam reporter for The New York Times and Time magazine and colleague of (“The Perfect Spy”) Pham Xuan An.

Currently in Bien Hoa, Vietnam a few days after Tet.

From: Vsg [vsg-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu] on behalf of David G. Sox [chesahbinu@comcast.net]

Sent: 22 February 2018 8:40 AM

To: 'Tom Fox'; vsg@u.washington.edu

Subject: Re: [Vsg] Looking for Vietnam environmental related study papers

Tom and the list. I will follow up this issue. In 2012, I completed a 37 year career doing environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) . That was after earning a thesis M.A. in geography at University of Hawaii and being a Ph.D. Candidate at some both in the 1970-1975 period. My academic research interest was Champa and the historical geography of Central Vietnam, while my EIA career focused on historic preservation, endangered species, coastal zone management, social impact assessment. My geography interest was kicked off, so to speak, by an article and cartoon in the Christian Science Monitor of 1968 about climate change and sea level rise, which was also the topic of my last significant contribution to the Coast Guard, being a sea-level forecast of CG Station Alameda (California) and Cape May (New Jersey).

Over the past several years, I have accumulated many studies about sea-level rise and general coastal physiographic conditions, mainly historical, covering Central Vietnam, but also the Mekong Delta.

David G. Sox

Independent Champa Researcher and Retired USCG Environmental Planning Program Manager

2018-02-22 9:39 GMT+01:00 Gerald Jackson <gerald@nias.ku.dk>:

Also worth looking at is Eren Zink's excellent study of global warming in Vietnam and the room for manoeuvre that climate scientists have in a developing country. More details at:

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9055-9788776941284.aspx

And good luck!

Gerald Jackson

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From: Vsg [mailto:vsg-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sandra Kurfürst

Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:17 AM

To: Vietnam Studies Group <Vsg@u.washington.edu>; thomascfox@gmail.com

Subject: Re: [Vsg] Looking for Vietnam environmental related study papers

Dear Tom,

Eva Fuhrmann's recently published book (2017) Perceptions of Change in Vietnam: Human Environmental Values in a Peri-urban Area of Southeast Vietnam might be of interest as well.

For more information please refer to the following website.

http://www.regiospectra.de/das-regionale-fachbuch/perceptions-of-change-in-vietnam-detail

Kind regards,

Sandra

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst

Global South Studies Center/

Institute of South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies

University of Cologne

Phone +49-221-470/7412

http://cross-urban.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/