Dissertation Research: The Effects of Land Endowments on Responses to Economic Reform in Four Villages of Northern Vietnam

越南的经济改革对土地利用方式产生了影响，这些影响因发生的生态条件不同而有所不同。与平地上的村庄相比，位于更异质景观中的村庄表现出更多样化的土地利用模式，因为平地上的湿稻农业占主导地位。这项研究将调查农村土地捐赠如何影响当地对改革的反应，这一点从农民土地使用做法的变化中可见一斑。假设土地利用的动态受到地方一级保有权和信贷机构变化的影响。这项研究将通过收集数据和对越南北部四个村庄进行比较研究来进行。它将为国家政策对自然条件产生影响的方式提供经验和理论上的理解，并反过来也形成地方对国家政策的反应。

Sikor, Thomas U. of California, Berkeley Vietnam's economic reforms have produced effects on land use practices that differ by the ecological conditions under which they occur. Villages located in more heterogeneous landscapes show a tendency toward more varied land use patterns than those which exist on flat land where wet rice agriculture is dominant. The research will investigate how village land endowments shape local responses to reform, as evidenced by changing peasant land use practices. It is hypothesized that the dynamics of land use are impacted by changes in local level tenure and credit institutions. The research will be carried out through data collection and the comparative study of four villages in Northern Viet Nam. It will provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the ways in which natural conditions are impacted by national policy and in turn also shape local responses to national policy.