Institutional structures underpinning flood management in Vietnam

Chau, Vu Ngoc; Holland, John; Cassells, Sue

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.10.008

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“…Mei et al [40] highlighted the infrastructure and logistics conditions during the 2010 evacuations at Merapi volcano. Baker and Refsgaard [16] and Chau et al [47] studied, respectively, the case of the Katrina hurricane and the extreme flood events in Vietnam. They both concluded that large-scale disasters require increased coordination and higher levels of institutional flexibility.…”

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The adaptive governance of natural disaster systems: Insights from the 2010 mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia

Bakkour

Enjolras

Thouret

et al. 2015

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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The adaptive governance of natural disaster systems: Insights from the 2010 mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia

Bakkour

Enjolras

Thouret

et al. 2015

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“…Dittmann (1994) It still lacks proactive approaches to flood risk management in Vietnam (Chau et al, 2014b). Deaths occurring during floods are almost due to the passive response of flood risk managers and populations to flood events.…”

Section: Flood Fatalities In Vietnammentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysing flood fatalities in Vietnam using national disaster database and tree-based methods

Luu

Meding

Kanjanabootra

2017

Preprint

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Abstract. Flood damage data recorded shows that Vietnam is vulnerable to flood hazards. This has severe consequences for the Vietnamese people, especially in terms of an unacceptably high death toll. To an extent, the high level of vulnerability is related to an insufficient capacity to cope with natural hazards, as is common in developing countries. On the other hand, social factors play their part and around the world, certain at-risk groups are systematically marginalised as a matter of policy. The number of fatalities is the most important indicator in flood risk assessment. However, there is a significant lack 10 of systematic research on flood fatalities in Vietnam. We respond to this gap and explore the national disaster database of

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“…To take floods in account, early warning system could be strengthened [117,120], which is meager at current. More focus on improving socioeconomic position of community through alleviating inequality and poverty [122,123] is need of time. This phenomenon may bring a concept of integrated flood management approaches and holistic action [124] for sustainable management of flood risks in Vietnam.…”

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Understanding Flood Risk Management in Asia: Concepts and Challenges

Ashraf¹,

Luqman²,

Iftikhar³

et al. 2017

Flood Risk Management

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In this chapter, an attempt is made to review the behavior of flood in Asian region and mechanism of flood risk management adopted among Asian nations. Flood is the most frequent natural disaster at present and vulnerability is widespread across the globe. Though, Asian region is on a knife-edge. Distribution of natural disasters in Asia followed by economic damage and human killing is illustrated in this chapter. In addition, discourse of China,

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Institutional structures underpinning flood management in Vietnam

Cited by 34 publications

References 21 publications

The adaptive governance of natural disaster systems: Insights from the 2010 mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia

The adaptive governance of natural disaster systems: Insights from the 2010 mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia

Analysing flood fatalities in Vietnam using national disaster database and tree-based methods

Understanding Flood Risk Management in Asia: Concepts and Challenges

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