Pham Thi Anh

Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMUTRANS), Vietnam · Institute for Environmental and Transport Studies

Although in a critical position in the economy, the paper industry releases a lot of wastewater that requires adequate treatment for sustainable development. This study presents an application of Life cycle assessment (LCA) with the ReCiPe tool on the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of a paper factory in Vietnam to evaluate the environmental effe...

Raising public awareness and participation of the local communities can have an important input for public involvement in the project design and implementation process, and it has become a major objective of sound development programs. This chapter focuses on (1) public participation in the design and adjust boundary of the underground station of t...

Urban flooding is an increasingly important issue. It has become a regular phenomenon in many towns and cities in the world over the past years. Flooding in urban areas in Ho Chi Minh City poses serious challenges not only by affecting large numbers of people and properties in urban areas but also directly hindering the economic growth of the city....

Domestic and industrial wastewaters and fishing activities caused the decline of fish diversity in Vam Thuat river-Nuoc Len canal, Sai Gon River systems, in Ho Chi Minh City. This paper aims to provide the species compositions and fishing gears in study area as a scientific basis data for biodiversity conservation, sustainable fishery development c...

The challenges of rapid urbanisation are multi-faceted. During the past few decades, many different concepts about the urban sustainability under the threats of climate change (CC) have been studied. Resilience is among the most recent concepts, used for the first time in the 2000s and has ever since attracted greater attention and interests from b...

Urban flooding has become a regular phenomenon in many towns and cities in the world over the past years. Flooding in urban areas in Ho Chi Minh City poses serious challenges not only by affecting large numbers of people and properties in urban areas but also directly hindering the economic growth of the city. Despite the huge technical effort to i...

The waste-tires are collected, reused and recycled in several ways. Pyrolysis approach had been applied in some countries and Vietnam now aday. The study had used Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method with Simapro solf-ware (version 8.5.2.0 updated 2018) to calculate and evaluated the environmental impacts from the waste tires pyrolysis process. The r...

This study carried out the survey by questionnaires, and group-based meetings at the end to 3 groups of users of single-use plastic, they are student, officer and housewife in Ho Chi Minh City.

This study had carried out the surveys on resident's opinions via questionnaires and measured air emission from the motorbikes to assess the environmental impacts from using the motor-bikes, and to understand the willingness of the resident to change into using public transport in Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam.

The paper present the overview of remote sensing methods with various data sources to identify oil spills in Bien Dong (East sea) in particularly.

The remarkable worldwide increase in the number of vehicles and the same with number of tires are produced each year, then most of which will eventually end up as waste. Vietnam is not standing outside of this trend. This study carried out investigation from discharge to reuse and recycle of scrap tire in SouthEast of Vietnam. The study evaluated t...

This study carried out investigation on the preparation and replacement of new tires, the store and management of waste - tyres at the motor and auto garages and interview of waste - tires’ collectors. The study evaluated the current issues on discharge and management of waste - tires at these garages in Ho Chi Minh City and proposed several manage...

Raising public awareness and participation of the local communities in the environmental protection has become a major objective of sound development programs. In the framework of the canal environmental protection program of Ho Chi Minh City, we had developed 32 public awareness meetings for 14 districts with about 2,726 participants from year 201...

Encouraging the active participation of local communities in development projects, through capacity-building and environmental and social education, has become a major objective of sound development programs. In the framework of the Metro Railway Transit Line 2 (MRT 2) Project, we had include the local communities in the program to ascertain the vi...

Encouraging the active participation of local communities in development projects, through capacity-building and environmental and social education, has become a major objective of sound development programs. In the framework of the Metro Railway Transit Line 2 (MRT 2) Project, we had include the local communities in the program to ascertain the vi...

The study had carried out investigation at the project area, analyzed the environmental monitoring data, used EMISENS model to calculate the emission from the traffic and organized public public meetings to evaluate negative impacts on human and environment during the construction phase of Metroline 2 project in Ho Chi Minh City. The study also ana...

Cho Gao canal plays a key role in the transport of goods from the region of Mekong Delta to Ho Chi Minh City and other provinces. With current cargo load and expecting to significantly increase in the future, Cho Gao canal is estimated to be severely affected by erosion and potential environmental impacts from the activities on these inland waterwa...

Poor water quality is one of the key environmental problems associated with shrimp and pangasius aquaculture in Vietnam. Several studies exist on the causes and effects of poor water quality, and on possible solutions for effluent control in these two economically important production systems. However, only a small number of Vietnamese farms apply...

Purpose Intensive striped catfish production in the Mekong Delta has, in recent years, raised environmental concerns. We conducted a stakeholder-based screening life cycle assessment (LCA) of the intensive farming system to determine the critical environmental impact and their causative processes in producing striped catfish. Additional to the LCA,...

The concept of industrial ecology has been applied in this research to study possibilities to develop an eco-industrial cluster model for fishery production industry in Vietnam. By learning from experiments of other developed countries, we apply the principles of Industrial Ecology and of Ecological Modernization in the context of Vietnam. We desig...

Abstract In this paper, we analyse water pollution caused by farming and processing Pangasianodon hypophthalmus in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The results show that 1 tonne of frozen fillets releases 740 kg BOD, 1020 kg COD, 2050 kg TSS, 106 kg nitrogen and 27 kg phosphorus, of which wastewater from fish ponds contributes 60–90% and sludge from fi...

This paper focuses on both the environmental impact of intensive shrimp farming in the coastal region of Vietnam and the identification of options for cleaner production. We investigated water pollution, sediment contamination and the spread of diseases related to shrimp farming in the Can Gio district of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), an area represe...

In the past seven years the export of white pangasius fillets grew fast. The culture method shifted to intensive production of striped catfish (Ca Tra) in deep ponds because this is more efficient than the pen and cage culture of Ca Basa. Today, striped catfish comprises more than 90 % of the culture. The increased production was achieved by produc...