Community resilience, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation : learning with coastal communities in central Vietnam

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2016

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Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, CA

Abstract

Future climate change is expected to heighten threats to a majority of Vietnam’s population that lives along the coast, projected to be 63 million people and 1.1 million hectares of agricultural land with a sea level rise of one metre. Coastal communities have their own biophysical and socioeconomic characteristics, impacted by different types, severity and patterns of climate hazards, including drought, salinization, and flooding. The research addresses some strategies that could provide central Vietnam’s coastal communities with ways to enhance community resilience and reduce risks from future climate change.

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THESIS, REPORTING, IDRA DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARDS

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