Phuc Xuan To

Phuc Xuan To is a research fellow at Resources, Environment and Development Group of Crawford School of Public Policy. Phuc received his PhD in environment at Humboldt University (Germany) in 2007. His dissertation project examines the political economy of the forest sector in Vietnam, with a particular focus on the dynamics of access and control over the forest. From 2007 to 2009, Phuc was working as a postdoc fellow at Anthropology Department of University of Toronto (Canada), where he participated in “The Challenges of Agrarian Transitions in Southeast Asia “ (ChATSEA) research project. Since 2009, Phuc has been working with Forest Trends as a senior policy analyst. His work has the dynamics of market-based instruments (e.g. Payments for Ecosystem Services), emerging global legality regulations, and land governance.

• The dynamics of market-based instruments
• Commodity markets
• Land governance
• Global legality systems for land-based commodities.

Phuc has been doing a numerous guest lectures on rural property relations, state, payment for ecosystem service, illegal logging, resource access and control.