Overview
- Analyzes the effects of climate change hazards on local Vietnamese communities based on the human ecological principle
- Compares climate change associated effects in coastal Vietnamese areas with those in mountainous areas
- Provides a wider context of integrated interpretations, socioeconomic implications, and policy responses to climate change hazard adaptation and mitigation in Vietnam
Part of the book series: Springer Climate (SPCL)
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Table of contents(8 chapters)
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Risks for Nature and Humans in the Lowland
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Risks for Nature and Humans in the Uplands
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Policy Implications
Keywords
- Climate change in Vietnam
- Coastal erosion in Ky Anh
- Human ecological approach
- The Delphi technique
- Digital shoreline analysis system (DSAS)
- Damage valuation
- The Van Chan Mountains
- Sectorial impacts
- Sea level rise
- Master planning
- climate change
- Climate change management
- climate change impacts
- Environmental Geography
About this book
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 ofCentral 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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Research Institute for Resources and Climate Change, Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, Hanoi, Vietnam
An Thinh Nguyen
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Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Brussels, Belgium
Luc Hens
About the authors
Assoc. Professor Dr. Nguyen An Thinh is the Director of the Research Institute for Resources and Climate Change (IRC) at Hanoi Natural Resources and Environment University (HUNRE), Vietnam, and the Vice-President of the International Association of Landscape Ecology in Vietnam region (VN-IALE). His research focuses include geography of Vietnam, human geography, quantitative geography, and mountainous landscape ecology.
Dr. Luc Hens is a scientific adviser for ”Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek” (VITO), a leading European independent research and technology organisation in the areas of clean-tech and sustainable development, and a former professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Begium. His research interests include environmental health, interdisciplinary instruments for environmental management, and sustainable development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Ecology of Climate Change Hazards in Vietnam
Book Subtitle: Risks for Nature and Humans in Lowland and Upland Areas
Authors: An Thinh Nguyen, Luc Hens
Series Title: Springer Climate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94917-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94916-1Published: 21 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06937-7Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94917-8Published: 13 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2352-0698
Series E-ISSN: 2352-0701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 174
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental Sociology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Geography, Natural Hazards