Household recovery from disaster: insights from Vietnam’s fish kill

Tuyen, Truong Van; Marschke, Melissa; Nguyen, Tuan V.; Alonso, Georgina; Andrachuk, Mark; Hong, Phuong Le Thi

doi:10.1080/17477891.2021.1873098

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“…Household livelihood strategies refer to a household's available options to pursue a desired livelihood, with these strategies being both dynamic and responsive to external disturbances or changes (SCOONES, 1998;ELLIS, 2000;MARSCHKE, 2005). Livelihood strategies generally take three forms: intensification, diversification, and migration (HUSSEIN & NELSON, 1998;MARSCHKE, 2005;MARSCHKE & BERKES, 2006;TUYEN ET AL., 2021). Intensification among small-scale fishery households is about intensifying the efforts of a household to increase income through fishing.…”

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The 2016 Vietnam marine life incident: measures of subjective resilience and livelihood implications for affected small-fishery communities

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Environmental &Amp; Socio-Economic Studies

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In April 2016, four provinces of Vietnam were struck by one of the largest manmade environmental incidents in Vietnam. Through a discharge of toxic chemicals by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, oceanic waters along Vietnam’s central coast were severely polluted. Consequently, the livelihoods of over 510,000 people living in coastal communities were severely affected by the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation incident (FHS incident). This study focusses on ex-ante and ex-post differences in livelihoods, and the subjective resilience of small-fishery households affected by the FHS incident in Hải Dương commune, a small coastal community, in central Vietnam. This was done through a qualitative analysis of livelihood strategies and resilience capacities of the affected households. Semi-structured interviews (n = 30), expert interviews (n = 3) and secondary data analysis were conducted from March to May 2018 employing a case study approach. Results show that the level of subjective resilience was strongly affected by a combination of social, financial, and human capitals. The presence, or lack, of these capitals combined with contextual factors influenced the livelihood strategies a household could pursue. Households that were able to pursue a combination of intensifying and diversifying livelihood strategies were most successful in recovering from and adjusting to the environmental incident. Households with restrained access to livelihood capitals were limited to intensifying livelihood strategies, having no real other option than persistence and increased dependence on government subsidies. Lastly, migration as a livelihood strategy and subsequent transformative resilience capacities remained generally low.

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The 2016 Vietnam marine life incident: measures of subjective resilience and livelihood implications for affected small-fishery communities

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“…In April 2016, toxic chemicals spilled from a faulty discharge pipe belonging to Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation (see Van Truong et al, 2021). The ensuing effects were immediately apparent, as masses of fish and other seafood were found dead hours after the spill was reported (Cantera, 2017;Ives, 2016;Paddock, 2016Paddock, , 2018.…”

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“…The ensuing effects were immediately apparent, as masses of fish and other seafood were found dead hours after the spill was reported (Cantera, 2017;Ives, 2016;Paddock, 2016Paddock, , 2018. Beyond its political effects (see Trang, 2017, Ives, 2016, the spillage of toxic chemicals upset the local economies, including that of Lang, that heavily depended on the sea and nearshore (Paddock, 2018;Van Truong et al, 2021). From the supply side, the spill instantly killed thousands of potentially harvestable fish and contaminated millions of different types of sea organisms including fishes, mollusks, seaweeds, and crustaceans (Hanoi Bureau, 2017).…”

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“…People from neighboring communities were unwilling to buy potentially contaminated foods. Unemployment soared after the spill, with many households not being able to rely on the local waters for subsistence for 9 months (Van Truong et al, 2021). After admitting fault, Formosa pledged 500 million US dollars to affected individuals in September 2016.…”

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“…Beyond its sizable political impacts (see Trang, 2017, Ives, 2016, the spillage of toxic chemicals upset the local economies, including that of Lang, that heavily depended on the sea (Paddock, 2018). Many maritime villages near the spill experienced precarity because, on average, people stopped all fishing-related activities for over 9 months (Van Truong et al, 2021).…”

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