SHEroic Journeys: Vietnamese Women's Eco-Trekking Tales for Climate Action

This research explores how, through adopting women-led, eco-trekking practices as a sustainable livelihood, the women can become agents for change in preserving both the natural environment and their indigenous rights and practices.
Project status
Ongoing
Departments
International

This research works directly with ethnic minority and indigenous women in Hoang Lien National Park (HLNP) in Northern Vietnam. As one of the most bio-diverse communities in Vietnam, HLNP is facing numerous challenges due to climate change, making conserving these natural assets increasingly difficult. These challenges are further complicated by intensive agriculture alongside large tourism developments that are also threatening the livelihoods and traditional ways of living amongst the ethnically diverse HLNP communities, and particularly, the women. This research explores how, through adopting women-led, eco-trekking practices as a sustainable livelihood, the women can become agents for change in preserving both the natural environment and their indigenous rights and practices. Using participatory action research, and innovative forms of knowledge exchange, the project will co-create new understandings of how through sharing traditional and indigenous knowledges and creative storytelling, eco-trekking practices can be viewed as an important form of in/direct climate action.

Research Team: Dr Lisa Jones, University of Hull; Dr Hue Le, Vietnam National University - The Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (CRES); Dr Katie Parsons, Loughborough University; Ms. Thu Vo, Vietnam National University - The Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (CRES)

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