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From the MA¿s framework of ecosystem services and the context in Vietnam, the present study focuses on local people¿s demands for forest ecosystem services (FES) and on drivers of changes that impact the forest ¿ local people relationship in the Nghinh Tuong and Vu Chan communes, northern Vietnam. The research identified the local FES demand and the drivers of changes to support and optimize forest management and policy decision-making at the local scale. The research results shown that local people¿s demand changed over time, depending on the service importance and their availability in each period. FES supply is recognized as having been reduced, although some FES still meets the local demand. The natural forests are appreciated to have a high potential to provide services. The national and local government demands for FES, which focus on conservation and respective forest resource management, mismatch with the demand of local people who require primarily of FPES that have practical significance for their lives. In terms of the indirect drivers of change, both external drivers and internal drivers have great impacts on the forest ecosystems and their services. This research also gave some recommendation for decision making, forestry economic development and improvement local people¿s awareness.
About the author
Nguyen, Thi Phuong Mai was born in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam, in 1982. She graduated bachelor degree in 2004 and master degree in 2006 of environmental science in Hanoi University of Sciences (HUS), Hanoi National University (HNU), Hanoi, Vietnam. Since October 2004, she worked as lecturer and researcher in faculty of Environment and Earth Sciences at Thai Nguyen University of Sciences (TNUS), and was header of Environment Management Department between 2010 and 2012. From October 2011 to June 2016, she worked as doctoral student in Department of Natural Conservation and Landscape Planning, Faculty of Forest Science and Forest Ecology, Goerg-August Goettingen University, Germany. After studying and researching in Germany, she continues working in TNUS and focuses on forest ecosystem services, human ecology, natural resource management and conservation, sustainable development in middle and mountain areas in Vietnam, response and adaption with climate change.
