Tools for use in Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM) and Payment for Environmental Services in Vietnam (TULViet)

Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM) aims to identify land-use practices that increase production while maintaining natural capital and continuing to provide ecosystem services at local and global scales (Izac and Sanchez 2001). The overall objective of INRM research and development activities is to help managers at various levels do a better job of managing natural resources. Natural resource management problems that relate local stakeholder decisions are usually different at different scales. The challenge is how should the opportunities for adaptive response among diverse interest groups, at a number of hierarchical levels, be included in the assessment of impacts on the livelihoods of rural people.