Tran Van Giai Phong

Swiss Coorperation Office in Vietnam

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This article explores the impacts of floods on the economy, environment, and society and tries to clarify the rural community’s coping mechanism to flood disasters in Central Viet Nam. It focuses on the social aspects of flood risk perception that shapes the responses to floods. The research findings revealed that flooding is an essential element f...

Disasters and environmental degradation create serious problems all around the world. They are inherently linked, but little attention is paid to their interaction, particularly at local levels. The degree of integration of disaster management and risk analysis with environmental management programs in relation to human vulnerability has been exami...

Recent catastrophic floods in Viet Nam have been increasingly linked to land use and forest cover change in the uplands. Despite the doubts that many scientists have expressed on such nexus, this common view prompted both positive forest protection/reforestation programs and often-unwarranted blame on upland communities for their forest management...

Linking community knowledge with modern techniques to record and analyse risk related data is one way of engaging and mobilising community capacity. This paper discusses the use of the Geographic Information System (GIS) at the local level and the need for integrating modern technology and indigenous knowledge into disaster management. It suggests...

A sister publication covers similar Cambodian work, and we that the broader project team for their contributions, including HE

A sister publication covers similar Cambodian work, and we that the broader project team for their contributions, including HE

Occupational extreme heat exposure can lead to a number of detrimental heat-health impacts on workers. Excessive night-time temperatures following hot days do not allow for workers to recover and can compound work heat-health impacts. A number of heat indices have been developed to estimate thermal comfort – how hot it feels – based on meteorologic...

Urban areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This is due to the dependence on infrastructure, and the density of population, services and economic activity. Most cities have been developed, designed and built to cope with the historic climate, not the future climate trends and extremes. Moreover, cities’ increasingly so...

Urbanization is bringing many new pressures to communities. For example, disasters pose major risks to dikes and other embankments along rivers; energy demand is driving the development of dams and hydroelectricity systems; greenhouse gas emissions are rising; there are more frequent and intense extreme weather events and continuing sea-level rise...

This paper synthesizes collaborative research results on the economics of alternative strategies for building resilience of housing systems in response to current conditions and projected changes in climate. Research undertaken in Vietnam, Gorakhpur, and Pakistan demonstrates cost-effective solutions for reducing risk from flooding, extreme storm e...

Keywords: Climate change Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) Da Nang city Quantitative CBA Typhoon resilient housing Vietnam a b s t r a c t Located in Central Vietnam, Da Nang city is experiencing rapid urbanization and development. In recent years, floods and storms have caused critical damage and losses to local communities and destroyed thousands of ho...

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Purpose – This paper aims to fill a conceptual gap in the understanding of rapidly changing characteristics of local risk, addressing how the notion of the local might be reframed, and how opportunities for multi-scale interventions for disaster risk reduction might be identified. Design/methodology/approach – The paper illustrates the significanc...

Purpose – This paper aims to review and develop lessons learned from the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction Local Government Self Assessment Tool (LGSAT) experience in four cities. The capacity to understand, learn from and respond to or reorganize in the face of change is at the core of urban resilience to disasters, climate change a...

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Housing and settlements are facing greater challenges toughed by rapid urbanisation and a changing climate in Vietnam. To date, there seem to lack of overall solutions for resilient housing to address future risks posed to housing and the promotion of long-term resilient shelter. Current interventions tend to put more focuses on physical improvemen...

This report has been developed based on secondary research information on VCA, and outputs of discussions and analyses in the “Shared learning workshop on vulnerability assessment tools and approaches for disaster risk reduction in rural and urban areas.” This document explores the challenges involved in conducting VCA in urban areas and aims to pr...

Nghiên cứu này sử dụng phương pháp phân tích chi phí lợi ích (cost-benefit analysis) để xem xét tính khả thi kinh tế của việc xây nhà chống bão tại thành phố Đà Nẵng. Kết quả phân tích cho thấy, việc đầu tư xây nhà chống bão mang lại chỉ số sinh lợi dương, điều này có nghĩa rằng đầu tư vào nhà chống bão là khả thi về mặt kinh tế. Kết quả cho thấy k...

The capacity of actors and institutions to learn and reorganize is central to the resilience of complex systems, particularly in the context of rapidly urbanizing cities. A process of qualitative, reflective research among practitioners within the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) showed that development projects and programme...

KEY POINTS IN BRIEF 1 Da Nang city is undergoing rapid change. Located in Central Vietnam, the city of Da Nang is experiencing rapid urbanization and development. 2 Greater economic resources for construction are not creating safer houses. As a result of economic improvement after the Reform policy in 1986, local households have more economic res...

Shelter design is one of the greatest factors influencing the loss of lives and assets during extreme climate events and is therefore a significant cost for governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations working on disaster risk reduction or postdisaster reconstruction (UN-HABITAT, 2011). The project Sheltering From a Gathering...

Forests are important in providing products and services supporting life and livelihood activitiesby providing diverse ecological or environmental services. However, losses of forest resources through deforestation and forest degradation, as a result of diverse factors such as illegal logging and fires, has been a major problem in Viet Nam in recen...

Climate change and housing have a close link in Vietnam’s cities. The impact of climate change is one of the biggest concerns for government and civil society. In Central Vietnam, storms and floods are common and dangerous hazards. Housing vulnerability is intensified by these hazards – but also by fragile physical and socio-economic conditions....

Community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) has been recognized since the mid-1990s. However, in the changing environment of the new millennium and the move toward disaster risk reduction (DRR), the community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) has been evolving in recent years. In Vietnam, many projects and programs in CBDRR have been carri...

Thu gom, vận chuyển và xử lý (TG, VC&XL) chất thải rắn sinh hoạt (CTRSH) là vấn đề phức tạp, đòi hỏi thời gian, tiền bạc và công sức. Kinh tế tăng trưởng cùng việc mở rộng của quá trình đô thị hoá, kéo theo sự gia tăng nhanh dân số ở đô thị làm lượng CTRSH phát sinh tăng lên. Bên cạnh đó, yêu cầu của người dân về chất lượng dịch vụ này ngày càng ca...

Chi trả dịch vụ môi trường rừng (DVMTR) là cách tiếp cận mới nhằm bảo tồn rừng đã được áp dụng rộng rãi ở các nước phát triển cũng như các nước đang phát triển. Ở Việt Nam, chính sách chi trả DVMTR được áp dụng thí điểm ở Lâm Đồng và Sơn La từ cuối năm 2008. Bài báo này nghiên cứu ảnh hưởng kinh tế, xã hội và môi trường của chương trình chi trả DVM...

Environment and disasters have a close relationship. Environmental change causes disasters or enhances the frequency or intensity of disasters. Climate change is often regarded as an environmental phenomenon; however, when we see changes in the typhoon path, or repeated occurrences of heavy rainfall or strong typhoons, it is often attributed to cli...

Urban areas are particularly vulnerable to climate impacts. Extreme weather events have long been causes of disasters independent of climate change, leading to destruction of infrastructure, loss of lives, and loss of assets. However, the changes and increases in impacts brought about by climate change will further stress physical built infrastruct...

Floods in Vietnam have been a well-known phenomenon and occur in all regions of the country, especially in the Central Coast region, Mekong Delta, and Red River Delta (Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2007). People had to learn to live with floods, particularly those whose livelihood depends on the productive functions of annual flooding. Floods are...

According to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2007), 11 out of the last 12 years have been the hottest on record since 1850. It is also estimated that the average global surface temperature from 1850–1899 to 2001–2005 has increased by 0.76°C. Global sea leve...

A review of the existing literature on disasters, impact, local vulnerability, and adaptation indicates to the fact that recent increasing frequency of natural disasters (e.g., floods, storms, and drought) have increasingly caused impacts on a diverse set of physical and biological systems, especially for those living in the developing countries wh...

The increasing climate-induced disaster is one of the main obstacles for sustainable development. Many countries and their housing sectors are already highly vulnerable to weather and climate extremes, as illustrated by tropical cyclones in Myanmar, Viet Nam, and the Philippines, and flooding in India, Bangladesh, and China. Disaster impacts and lo...

As a consequence of the huge loss and damage caused by natural disasters all over the world, an impressive amount of attention is currently being given to a holistic approach in disaster risk management (McEntire, Fuller, Johnston, & Weber, 2002). The world experiences more and more natural disaster impacts in spite of numerous efforts, advancing s...

Communities around the world are already vulnerable to disasters, the “Global Assessment Report: Disaster Risk Reduction” presents compelling new evidence of concentration of risk in many developing countries. The “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report” reports that climate change is expected to be accompanied by...

This study identifies the adaptation behaviors of local institutions and households in order to determine a set of adaptation possibilities appropriate to Central Viet Nam. The constraints and barriers to implementing a set of adaptation possibilities have been analyzed from different angles, such as the economic status and education level of each...

Risk assessments are the very basis on which planning and implementation are carried out. In the context of urban risk management, the assessment processes are complex to understand as they involve multi-sectoral parameters. Many of the issues involved are of technical nature, but this also requires focus on the principles behind the assessment pro...

Community based disaster risk management is considered as an important approach and process to reduce disaster risks. A resilient community is found to cope with the natural disasters, especially in the areas prone to frequent disaster events. There are several ways to enhance community’s resilience. One important aspect is to provide appropriate i...

ABSTRACT Disaster, environment and developmentare inherently linked, howevera clear and comprehensivepict ure of the interactions amongth em andth e information ofexisting plans, ongoing and completed projects oft hree sectors in the Asia-Pacific region is lacking. Thus an understanding of the linkages and exploring possible strategic entry points...