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Paula Brown

PhD Candidate

Madsen Building (F09),
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Supervisor
Professor Philip Hirsch

Research

Paula commenced PhD research on the implementation of participatory approaches to aquatic resource management in Vietnam in August 2005. Paula has experience implementing sustainable management of aquatic resources in both Australia and Vietnam, including 12 months at the Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 2 in Saigon as a volunteer in participatory water management.

Her Ph D research investigates the use of participatory approaches in aquatic natural resource management in Vietnam, focusing on fisheries co-management and Marine Protected Area projects. Three principal questions are being explored around the theme of project operation: how operations differ with different socio-cultural influences, how participation functions through projects, and how livelihoods change. This research is being implemented through documentation of influencing social, ecological and political factors operating in the coastal zone, and using ethnographic approaches at the community level.

Her research is involved with various marine protected area projects along the Vietnam coastline, from Phu Quoc Island in the south-west, to Quang Nam Province in central Vietnam. She is investigating a broad spectrum of project experience from NGO-driven, community-based approaches through to program implementation by national ministries.

This research is supported by the ChATSEA (Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in South East Asia) project, focusing on two key ChATSEA research themes of regulation intensification and environmental change. The ChATSEA project is funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Paula undertook preliminary in-country field investigations in January-March 2006, with findings of this research reported at the International Geographers Union conference in Brisbane Australia (July 2006), and the Southeast Asian Geographers' Association conference in Singapore (November 2006). She commenced detailed field work in Vietnam in December 2006, and returns to Sydney University in late 2007.

Paula's research in Vietnam is supported in 2007 by an Endeavour Fellowship from the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Technology.

This research is supported by the ChATSEA (Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in South East Asia) project, focusing on two key ChATSEA research themes of regulation intensification and environmental change. Paula undertook preliminary in-country field investigations in January-March 2006, the findings of which were reported at the International Geographers Union conference in Brisbane Australia (July 2006), and the Southeast Asian Geographers' Association conference in Singapore (November 2006). She commenced detailed field work in Vietnam in December 2006, and returns to Sydney University in September 2007.

Paula's research in Vietnam is supported in 2007 by an Endeavour Fellowship from the Australian Department of Education, Science and Technology.

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Publications

* Brown, PC, Thanh, NK, (2004) Participatory Resolution of Water Use Conflicts in a Mixed Shrimp Rice Culture Area of the Mekong Delta. 7th Asian Fisheries Forum, Penang Malaysia, Nov. 2004.
* Nien, NM, Thanh, NC, Chuong, TQ, Brown PC (2004) Baseline Survey of Shrimp/Rice Farmers of Hoa Tu 1 Commune, Soc Trang Province, Mekong Delta Vietnam. Research Institute for Aquaculture No 2, HCMC, Vietnam.
* Bryars, S, Neverauskas, V, Brown, PC, Gilliland, J, Gray, L, and Halliday, L, (2003) Degraded Seagrass Meadows and Evidence of Eutrophication in Western Cove, Kangaroo Island. Fish Habitat Program, Primary Industries and Resources South Australia, Adelaide.
* Brown, PC (2002) On the Road with the Fish Habitat Handbook: improving regional awareness of best practice fish habitat management. Poster presentation at Sustaining our Communities: International Local Agenda 21 Conference, Adelaide 3 – 6 March 2002.
* Brown, PC (2001) The Fish Habitat Handbook: How to Reduce the Impacts of Coastal Development on Fish Habitats. Marine Habitat Program, Primary Industries and Resources South Australia, Adelaide. Online (PDF)
* Brown, PC, and Davison, L (1999) Flowforms and Ponds in On-Site Wastewater Treatment. On-Site 1999, the first international conference on On-Site Wastewater Treatment Technology, Armidale, Australia 13-15 July 1999.
* Bryce, CR, Brown, P and Buckworth, RC (1998) Fish Otolith Sectioning and Preparation for Microscopic Examination. Technote No. 98, Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Darwin.