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 a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. 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:
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Coupled Natural-Human Systems and Emerging Infectious Disease: Anthropogenic environmental change and avian inflenza in Vietnam, funded by the National Science Foundation;
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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;
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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., Y. Fujita, D. Ngidang, N. Peluso, L. Potter, N.Sakuntaladewi, J. Sturgeon and D. Thomas. 2009. Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia. Human Ecology. 37 (3) 305-322. http://springerlink.com/content/67302684057020m1/fulltext.pdf
Mertz, O., C. Padoch, J. Fox, R. A. Cramb, S. J. Leisz, T. L. Nguyen, and D. V. Tran. 2009. Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Human Ecology. 37 (3): 259-264.
Ziegler, A.D., J. Fox and J. Xu. 2009. The Rubber Juggernaut. Science 324: 1024-1025.
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.
Ziegler, A., T. Giambelluca, D. Plondke, S. Leisz, L. Tran, J. Fox, M. Nullet, J. Vogler, D.M. Truong, T.D. Vien. 2007. Hydrological consequences of landscape fragmentation in mountainous northern Vietnam: Buffering of Hortonian overland flow. Journal of Hydrology 337:52-67.
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.