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Jefferson M. Fox

Coordinator, Environmental Change, Vulnerability and Governance; Senior Fellow

PhD, Development Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Email: FoxJ@EastWestCenter.org
Phone: 808-944-7248
Fax: 808-944-7298
Research Interests: Land cover/land-use change; forest fragmentation and degradation; spatial information technologies; local peoples and systems for managing forest resources in South and Southeast Asia.

Jefferson Fox is the Coordinator of Environmental Change, Vulnerability and Governance and a Senior Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. Dr. Fox's scholarship focuses on land-use and land-cover change in Asia and the possible cumulative impact of these changes on the region and the global environment. Dr. Fox has co-edited several books, most recently, People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS (Kluwer Academic Press, 2003).

Ongoing research includes:

the expansion of rubber and its implications for water and carbon dynamics in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia, funded by NASA;
co-management of tropical forest resources in Bangladesh, funded by International Resources Group and the United States Agency for International Development;
understanding dynamic resource management systems and land cover transitions in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia, funded by the National Science Foundation;
the role of land-cover change in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in altering regional hydrological processes under a changing climate, funded by NASA.

Formerly with watershed management projects in Nepal, and lectured in Geography Department, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Speaks Nepali and Bahasa Indonesia. Member of the affiliate graduate faculty in geography and anthropology, University of Hawaii.

Dr. Fox's curriculum vitae is available in pdf format.

Publications:

Fox, J., D. McMahon, M. Poffenberger, and J. Vogler. 2008. Land for my Grandchildren: Land Use and Tenure Change in Ratanakiri: 1989-2007. Community Forestry International, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Fox, J. and A. Swamy. 2008. Introduction: Natural resources and ethnic conflicts in the Asia Pacific. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 49(1): 1-11.

Fox, J., K. Suryanata, P. Hershock, and A. Pramono. 2008. Mapping boundaries, Shifting Power: The socio-ethical dimensions of participatory mapping. In M. Goodman, M. Boykoff, K. Evered (eds.) Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Fox, J. and J. Vogler. 2005. Land-use and Land-cover Change in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia. Environmental Management 36 (3): 394-403.

Fox, J. 2002. Siam mapped and mapping in Cambodia: Boundaries, sovereignty, and indigenous conceptions of space. Society and Natural Resources 15:65-78.

Fox J., Dao Minh Truong, A Terry Rambo, Nghiem Phuong Tuyen, Le Trong Cuc, and Stephen Leisz. 2000. Shifting cultivation: A new old paradigm for managing tropical forests. BioScience 50 (6): 521-528.

Related Publications

Connecting Communities and Conservation: Collaborative Management of Protected Areas in Bangladesh
Controlling a Regional Threat: Fighting Fire in Indonesia
Crossing Borders, Changing Landscapes: Land-Use Dynamics in the Golden Triangle
Development Trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region (2 volume set)
Diagnostic Tools for Social Forestry
Farmer Decision Making and Spatial Variables in Northern Thailand
Forest Resources in a Nepali Village in 1980 and 1990: The Positive Influence of Population Growth
Forest-Dweller Demographics in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Hanging in the Balance: Equity in Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Asia
How Blaming 'Slash and Burn' Farmers is Deforesting Mainland Southeast Asia
Hydrological Consequences of Landscape Fragmentation in Mountainous Northern Vietnam: Evidence of Accelerated Overland Flow Generation
Issues of Decentralization and Federation in Forest Governance: Proceedings from the Tenth Workshop on Community-Based Management of Forestlands
Land Use and Landscape Dynamics in Northern Thailand: Assessing Change in Three Upland Watersheds
Legal Frameworks for Forest Management in Asia: Case Studies of Community/State Relations
Making Conservation Work: Linking Rural LIvelihoods and Protected Area Management in Bangladesh
Mapping Communities: Ethics, Values, Practice
Mapping Customary Land in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: A Tool for Forest Management
People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS
Society and Non-Timber Forest Products in Tropical Asia
The Problem of Scale in Community Resource Management
Threatened Places

Related Research Projects

Coupled Natural-Human Systems and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Expansion of rubber and its implications for water and carbon dynamics in MMSEA
Role of Land-cover Change in Montane Mainland SE Asia in Altering Regional Hydrological Processes
Understanding Dynamic Resource Management Systems and Land Cover Transitions in Montane SE Asia