“…As firms are already frequently located in floodprone areas on the fringe of the city and are equipped with hard-to-change and immovable infrastructure, particularly firms in the manufacturing sector are at the frontline in terms of loss and damage caused by flooding (Neise, Revilla Diez, & Garschagen, 2018). Recently, there has been extensive research on the impact of flooding in HCMC (Arouri, Nguyen, & Youssef, 2015;Balica, Dinh, Popescu, Vo, & Pham, 2014;Dang & Kumar, 2017;Downes et al, 2016;Downes & Storch, 2014;Duy et al, 2018), mostly focussing on the impact of flooding on communities and households and risk-adapted land use planning. However, little research exists on firms' exposure to future SLR inundation, although political frameworks such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 highlight firms and businesses as important actors for implementing an integrative and effective flood risk governance.…”