Nga Dao

Nga Dao has conducted research on topics including development-induced displacement in Southeast Asia, gender equality and women’s roles in water resource governance, agri-business and land grabbing. She is now focusing on river ecologies, livelihood change and environmental justice in the Mekong delta, exploring how the delta landscape has been transformed through expansion of boom crops, industrialization, resource (land & water) degradation and migration.
Keywords: Political ecology; water governance; agrarian transformations; Vietnam; Mekong region