An integrated and quantitative vulnerability assessment for proactive hazard response and sustainability: a case study on the Chan May-Lang Co Gulf area, Central Vietnam

Nhuận, Mai Trọng; Hiền, Lê Thị Thu; Ha, Nguyen Thi Hoang; Hue, Nguyen Thi Hong; Quy, Trần Đăng

doi:10.1007/s11625-013-0221-9

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“…Urban vulnerability research has covered a broad range of topics, including social vulnerability to environmental hazards (Siagian et al, 2014;Cutter et al, 2003;Cutter, 1996), urban vulnerability to terrorist attacks (Walter et al, 2007), urban vulnerability to climate change (Grasso et al, 2014;Renaud and Perez, 2010;Hay and Mimura, 2006), urban internal vulnerability to heat (Joyce et al, 2014), urban vulnerability to natural disasters (Zhou et al, 2014;Usha, 2012), etc. Urban vulnerability research has involved cities in both developed and developing countries, such as the United States (Cutter et al, 2003), Australia (Abbas and Fahim, 2015), Chile (Muller et al, 2011), Kenya (Oluoko, 2011, South Korea (Koh, 2011), China (Yi et al, 2014), Bangladesh (Seraj et al, 1997), Vietnam (Nhuan et al, 2014), and Samoa (Grasso et al, 2014). The research methods used for urban vulnerability include data envelopment analysis (DEA), the geographic information system (GIS) ArcGIS, scenario analysis, the image-merging method, the vulnerability-functionbased method, etc.…”

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A comprehensive assessment of urban vulnerability and its spatial differentiation in China

2015

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Abstract:The urban vulnerability poses a serious challenge to achieving sustainable development. With the concentration of the population and the economy, cities must manage the higher frequencies and risks of various hazards and are becoming more vulnerable. Research on the assessment and regulatory control of urban vulnerability is of great significance for both urbanization quality improvement and sustainable development in China or other countries in the world. Because of the complexity of cities and vulnerability concepts, existing studies have focused on different aspects of urban vulnerability. And the research content of urban vulnerability is scattered and relatively independent, leading to a lack of comparability among the research data and resulting in tremendous difficulties in summarizing the conclusions through comparison of independent research data. Therefore the goal of this study was to construct urban vulnerability index (UVI) from the perspective of sustainable development that could assess urban vulnerability comprehensively. In this study, we selected 10 subindexes involving 36 specific parameters from four aspects (resources, eco-environmental systems, economics, and social development) to construct a comprehensive index system. We also established the standard values of measurements. Then we take 288 prefecture-level cities in China as a study area and evaluate its overall urban vulnerability and its spatial differentiation. Results indicate that urban vulnerability of China has a remarkable spatial differentiation of both "gradient distribution" and "clustered distribution"; the extent of urban vulnerability corresponds to city size, the bigger the city, the lower its vulnerability; resource-based cities are more vulnerable than comprehensive cities; a city's economic growth rate does not reflect the extent of its urban vulnerability. Further, we offer a few suggestions to cope with urban vulnerability in China.

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A comprehensive assessment of urban vulnerability and its spatial differentiation in China

2015

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Cost–benefit analysis of mangrove ecosystems in flood risk reduction: a case study of the Tana Delta, Kenya

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2017

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Understanding and assessing flood risk in Vietnam: Current status, persisting gaps, and future directions

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J Flood Risk Management

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Vietnam is exposed to different types of floods that cause severe economic losses, damage to infrastructure, and loss of life. Reliable information on the drivers, patterns and dynamics of flood risk is crucial for the identification, prioritization and planning of risk reduction and adaptation measures. Here, we present a systematic review of existing flood risk assessments in Vietnam. We evaluate the current status, persisting gaps, and challenges regarding the understanding and assessment of flood risk in the country. The literature review revealed that: (i) 65 % of the reviewed papers did not provide a clear definition of flood risk, (ii) assessments had a tendency to prioritize physical and environmental drivers of risk over social, economic or governance‐related drivers, (iii) future‐oriented assessments tended to focus on hazard and exposure trends, while vulnerability scenarios were often lacking, (iv) large and middle‐sized cities were assessed more frequently than others, (v) only few studies engaged with relevant local stakeholders for the assessment of risk and the development of potential solutions, and (vi) ecosystem‐based adaptation and flood risk insurance solutions were rarely considered. Based on these findings, we point out several directions for future research on flood risk in Vietnam.

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An integrated and quantitative vulnerability assessment for proactive hazard response and sustainability: a case study on the Chan May-Lang Co Gulf area, Central Vietnam

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

A comprehensive assessment of urban vulnerability and its spatial differentiation in China

A comprehensive assessment of urban vulnerability and its spatial differentiation in China

Cost–benefit analysis of mangrove ecosystems in flood risk reduction: a case study of the Tana Delta, Kenya

Understanding and assessing flood risk in Vietnam: Current status, persisting gaps, and future directions

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