{"title":"When water policies derail livelihood aspirations: farmers’ agency in everyday politics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta","authors":"Thong Anh Tran, Jamie Pittock","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2323601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2323601","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Development of water infrastructure is conventionally prioritised as a pre-emptive intervention policy to address water challenges. In the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, turning a river into a reservoir is touted as a ‘highly-modernist’ water management approach to secure the year-round supply of freshwater for agricultural production. This paper investigates how contested water-livelihood relations emerged from the building of the Ba Lai sluice scheme in Ben Tre Province, and how these processes demonstrate farmers’ agency in everyday politics in seeking solutions for livelihood sustainability. Drawing on a qualitative case study in Binh Dai District, we argue that, while the scheme successfully fulfils the state’s political intention in securing water supply for freshwater-based crop production in coastal zones, it generates contestation between the local government’s attempts to enforce freshwater policies and farmers’ agency in maintaining productive livelihoods. The findings suggest that power asymmetries are embedded within these water-livelihood relations. We find that seeking just solutions that have co-benefits for water management and livelihood sustainability should go beyond business-as-usual water politics by adequately recognising the agency of farmers in sustainable development. The case study offers lessons for navigating the sustainable future of water development projects in coastal deltas and beyond.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141688029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Driving environmental inequality: the unequal harms and benefits of highways","authors":"Pierce Greenberg, Ryan Wishart, Sabrina Danielsen","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2372891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2372891","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141709865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is an urban waste-to-energy plant a “green” megaproject? The power of narratives in shaping the city: a Danish case study","authors":"S. Lucciarini, Rossana Galdini","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2357691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2357691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between work-family policies and pro-environmental behaviour of single mothers as economically disadvantaged group","authors":"Anne-Marie Parth","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2353754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2353754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140968143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Schewe, Weston Henry Fenner, Lidiia Iavoriska, Christa Kelleher
{"title":"Spatial diffusion of innovations: a spatial analysis of agricultural conservation behaviors in New York State","authors":"Rebecca Schewe, Weston Henry Fenner, Lidiia Iavoriska, Christa Kelleher","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2353758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2353758","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140968587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘We want kids, not nukes’: a critical discourse analysis of newspaper representations of children in anti-nuclear movements in Taiwan, 1987–2019","authors":"Hung-Chieh Chang","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2349830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2349830","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141014741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The valuation of a mine – values, facts and contested notions of sustainability in the prospecting for new mines","authors":"Monika Berg","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2341612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2341612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140707365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dicky Rachmawan, G. Acciaioli, TB Massa Djafar, Herman Hidayat, R. Siburian, Sulistya Ekawati, Laely Nurhidayah, Letsu Vella Sundary, M. Utomo, Annisa Meutia Ratri, Dini Suryani
{"title":"Community partner viewpoints on forest partnership: why does it matter?","authors":"Dicky Rachmawan, G. Acciaioli, TB Massa Djafar, Herman Hidayat, R. Siburian, Sulistya Ekawati, Laely Nurhidayah, Letsu Vella Sundary, M. Utomo, Annisa Meutia Ratri, Dini Suryani","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2024.2316993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2316993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139775284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}