Download or read book Climate Change Risk and Adaptation Assessment for Irrigation in Southern Viet Nam written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents findings from a climate change risk and adaptation assessment in southern Viet Nam as part of the Water Efficiency Improvement in Drought-Affected Provinces (WEIDAP) project supported by the Asian Development Bank. It highlights new developments and key lessons on climate risk assessment that may be applied to the project design and monitoring as well as the implementation of climate adaptation measures. The WEIDAP project was developed in response to the drought that affected southern Viet Nam in 2015–2016. It focused on irrigation modernization and the integration of climate-resilient agricultural and efficient on-farm water management practices.
Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Vietnam written by Philipp Schmidt-Thomé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces. The methodology used to develop the scientific basis and the societal agreement of the need to adapt to climate change is applicable also to other regions in Vietnam, Asia and worldwide. The uncertainties of climate change models make it difficult to justify investments to finance protection from uncertain impacts. Setting out with the projected climate change impacts in Vietnam, which is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, the book describes a methodological approach to assess and evaluate local vulnerabilities of natural resources to climate change and socio-economic impacts, engaging local stakeholders in the development of locally acceptable and economically feasible adaptation measures. The methodological approach to understand the vulnerabilities and to develop climate change adaptation measures was scenario workshops that supported the communication between scientists and stakeholders. The development of climate change adaptation strategies is nearly state-of-the-art in many countries, but often there is still a large step towards implementing climate change adaptation measures on the local level. The challenge in the development of adaptation measures lies in their acceptability by local stakeholders and decision makers. Climate change adaptation measures also usually demand investments. To understand potential future risks the communication methodology was to first get a good understanding of the natural resources (mainly surface and groundwater) and their potential vulnerabilities (current and future). This was followed by developing a common understanding of current risk patterns, as well as underlying vulnerabilities and hazards. Socio-economic developments have an equally strong, and in the short term mostly even stronger, impact on the living environment and natural resources as long-term climate change impacts. The scenario workshops developed a holistic approach on current and potential future risk patterns, with a special focus on surface and groundwater quantities and qualities, natural hazards and sea level rise. Land-use planning was identified as playing a decisive role in minimizing current and future risks. Finally, first adaptation measures for two Vietnamese provinces were developed and shall be implemented over the next years. The methodology that led to these adaptation measures shall be applied in other Vietnamese provinces.
Download or read book On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change written by Ole Bruun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context. The way in which possible climate impacts interact with a range of other challenges in agriculture, forestry, disaster planning, health care, general economic development, and common livelihoods are presented, and it is argued that greater realism and broader vision are needed in order to address the climate challenge. For instance, unsuitable land- use changes in both coastal and highland regions may increase the vulnerability of rural people, many of whom are already living on the fringes. The author(s) also state(s) that, depending on context, it may be pertinent to address short-term and unsustainable resource use, irregularities in local land management, ineffective governance and social inequality, which are all likely to aggravate the impact of external climate and weather. Not least, it is imperative to integrate general environmental management with any climate-change adaptation effort.
Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Vietnam written by Philipp Schmidt-Thomé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces. The methodology used to develop the scientific basis and the societal agreement of the need to adapt to climate change is applicable also to other regions in Vietnam, Asia and worldwide. The uncertainties of climate change models make it difficult to justify investments to finance protection from uncertain impacts. Setting out with the projected climate change impacts in Vietnam, which is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, the book describes a methodological approach to assess and evaluate local vulnerabilities of natural resources to climate change and socio-economic impacts, engaging local stakeholders in the development of locally acceptable and economically feasible adaptation measures. The methodological approach to understand the vulnerabilities and to develop climate change adaptation measures was scenario workshops that supported the communication between scientists and stakeholders. The development of climate change adaptation strategies is nearly state-of-the-art in many countries, but often there is still a large step towards implementing climate change adaptation measures on the local level. The challenge in the development of adaptation measures lies in their acceptability by local stakeholders and decision makers. Climate change adaptation measures also usually demand investments. To understand potential future risks the communication methodology was to first get a good understanding of the natural resources (mainly surface and groundwater) and their potential vulnerabilities (current and future). This was followed by developing a common understanding of current risk patterns, as well as underlying vulnerabilities and hazards. Socio-economic developments have an equally strong, and in the short term mostly even stronger, impact on the living environment and natural resources as long-term climate change impacts. The scenario workshops developed a holistic approach on current and potential future risk patterns, with a special focus on surface and groundwater quantities and qualities, natural hazards and sea level rise. Land-use planning was identified as playing a decisive role in minimizing current and future risks. Finally, first adaptation measures for two Vietnamese provinces were developed and shall be implemented over the next years. The methodology that led to these adaptation measures shall be applied in other Vietnamese provinces.
Download or read book Human Ecology of Climate Change Hazards in Vietnam written by An Thinh Nguyen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes climate change associated effects in the mountainous and coastal environments of Vietnam. The scope of the book allows international comparisons to be made between these two affected areas and other similarly affected locations under constant environmental pressure. Frequent and intense climate change hazards are described, along with a wider context of integrated interpretations, socioeconomic implications and policy responses. The book reports on original research combining methodologies from the natural sciences with approaches in human sciences, providing an interdisciplinary human ecological context to analyze similar situations worldwide. The book is structured in four parts. The first part offers background information, and details the human ecological framework. The geography of the analyzed regions is discussed to reflect the environmental and socioeconomic context of Vietnam's coasts and mountains. The second part addresses the coast of Central Vietnam. The effects of tropical storms, floods, rising sea levels and coastal erosion in Ky Anh are studied to highlight the impacts on the local population and its development perspectives. The third part focuses on the uplands of Northern Vietnam. The effects of cyclones, heavy rains, floods, flash floods, and landslides in the Van Chan Mountains are studied to compare the biophysical and socioeconomic impacts. Part four makes policy recommendations in building resilient landscapes and green cities, and discusses the potential implications of findings for practice in Vietnam. The book addresses a wide array of researchers, geography and economics students, consultants and decision makers interested in the actual status and the likely developments on the physical, socioeconomic and mitigation and adaptation attitudes and policies of climate change associated effects.
Download or read book Living with Environmental Change written by W. Neil Adger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam and the neighbouring countries of Southeast Asia face diverse challenges created by the rapid evolution of their social, economic and environmental systems and resources. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the Vietnamese situation, identifying the factors shaping social vulnerability and resilience to environmental change and considering prospects for sustainable development.
Download or read book Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam written by Nguyen Danh Thao and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book examines threats such as tropical cyclones, sea-level rise, flooding, erosion, and salinity intrusion, and their respective effects on coastal structures and environments. It also looks at crucial management and mitigation efforts, including breakwater design, irrigation systems, coastal dunes and dikes, and more. The challenges faced by this country in the future will have important regional and global repercussions; areas such as the Mekong Delta produce a significant proportion of the world’s rice, and coastal impacts on this region will have far-reaching economic and public health effects. This book is an important source of information for government and local policy makers, environmental and climate scientists, and engineers. Broad coverage of climate challenges specific to the region, including sea-level rise, storms, erosion, and more Assessments of impact on, and effects of, economic development and port construction Examination of public policy responses to climate change
Download or read book Risky Change written by Matthias Garschagen and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh. This book was released on 2014 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam's cities are not only rapidly transforming under the country's political and economic change, but are also increasingly exposed to natural hazards and threatened by the projected impacts of climate change. The interaction of both trends leads to substantial shifts in risk and to new challenges for adaptation governance which, however, remain poorly understood empirically, neglected theoretically and underemphasized politically. This book therefore draws on 14 months of empirical research in Can Tho City to trace the dynamics of urban vulnerability and to examine how the responsibilities and capacities for risk reduction are negotiated within the country's transforming political economy. Based on a mixed methods approach, the study offers fresh empirical insights and innovative theoretical explanations targeting some of the most pressing gaps in current risk and adaptation science. These revolve particularly around the vexed causal relations between vulnerability and adaptation, the capture of (future) vulnerability pathways, the role of structural versus agentive factors for explaining adaptation action and the cross-scale synergies but also rifts between state and non-state measures for risk reduction.
Download or read book Viet Nam written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of Household Assets and Community Assets on Rice Farmers Adaptation Decisions to Climate Change in Viet Nam written by Chi Dang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture, a main sector of Vietnams economy, has been faced with sea level rise, climate variability and shortage of fresh water resources. Barriers to adaptation to climate change in the agricultural sector have been of interest to many researchers. This study is one empirical research that aims to identify five capital assets -human capital, physical capital, natural capital, financial capital and social capital- at both the household level and the local level that can shape rice farmers adaptive capacity and influence their decisions to take adaptive measures. The adaptive strategies used by rice farmers to adapt to climate change in the Mekong River Delta and the South Central Coast of Vietnam are categorized into two groups: engineering measures and non-engineering measures. The results from the multinomial logistic regression model employed show that the indicators of the five capital assets- farming experience of the household head, possession of at least one irrigation machine, land types, downstream location of the village, number of people providing financial loans to the household in case of emergency, in-kind support from organizations or agencies, population density of the village- all significantly influence farmers adaptive choices. Given limited capital assets at both household and community levels, this study recommends what types of adaptive measures rice farmers can apply to reduce the impacts of droughts, saline intrusion and alluvial deposition. The findings of this study have important implications for the establishment of policy responses to climate change and the implementation of climate change adaptation programs at the local and national levels.
Download or read book Climate Change in Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam written by Ngoc son Ho and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change Assessment in Southeast Asia and Implications for Agricultural Production in Vietnam written by Nam Binh Tran and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation Crops and Hydropower in Vietnam written by Yohannes Gebretsadik and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vulnerability and Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observing Institutional Adaptation to Global Environmental Change in Coastal Vietnam written by W. Neil Adger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Changes in Viet Nam Impacts and Adaptation written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
