Introduction to Ho Chi Minh City

Katzschner, Antje; Schwartze, Frank; Thanh, Bao; Schmidt, Michaël

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04615-0_1

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“…firm owners and stakeholders) and public administration in terms of future planning policies and the support of long-term adaptation measures. Following Katzschner et al (2016), all relevant national and local governmental agencies support the process of relocating industrial factories from inner city districts to the urban fringe. Regarding this policy agenda, our findings emphasize the importance of keeping the issue of flood exposure and the protection of relocated firms in mind.…”

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“…The national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reached about 20 bn USD (at current USD rates) in 2016 (The World Bank, 2016). To date, the HCMC region generates almost 40% of the country's GDP and accounts for around 70% of its export revenue growing rate (Katzschner, Schwartze, Thanh, & Schmidt, 2016). The economic development of HCMC is notably attributed to the city's location and its attraction for the labor force (Duy, Chapman, Tight, Linh, & Thuong, 2018).…”

Section: Study Area -Ho Chi Minh City Vietnammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the remarkable economic development, the economic planning in HCMC does not sufficiently consider topographic conditions. The economic infrastructure and industrial zones are continuously started up in and relocated to highly flood-exposed urbanizing zones such as wetlands and low elevated areas, which has presumably intensified forthcoming inundation (Katzschner et al, 2016). The industry in these areas often consists of firms in the labor-intensive manufacturing and processing sector, requiring significant numbers of manufacturing workers.…”

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Exposure of manufacturing firms to future sea level rise in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Leitold

Diez

2018

Journal of Maps

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Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is facing notably high levels in current and future flooding. Simultaneously, the ongoing process of rapid industrialization is characterized by the strong emergence of manufacturing firms within the urban area. As manufacturing firms are at the frontline regarding damage caused by flooding, which is often neglected in risk analyses, we argue that the assessment of firms' exposure to flooding is essential for implementing an integrative flood risk governance. Hence, this study maps manufacturing firms in HCMC, using geocoding based on the Vietnam Enterprise Census (2005, 2015), and assesses whether they are exposed to future sea level rise. The maps developed visualize the expansion of manufacturing firms from 2005 to 2015 and the spatial distribution of firms exposed to future sea level rise in HCMC. Our results reveal that particularly domestic, private micro firms in labor-intensive industries, which represent the backbone of the local economy, are exposed, threatening their competitiveness and viability.

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Exposure of manufacturing firms to future sea level rise in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Leitold

Diez

2018

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“…The aim of this collective, proactive strategy is to avoid flood exposure by jointly relocating neighboring firms into small industrial areas within a protected environment. Firms with laborintensive production in HCMC are already relocating due to the government's relocation policies in urban areas (Katzschner et al 2016). (2) The construction of a dike system is a hard adaptation measure, 1 requiring specific technologies and actions, and generally aims at a gradual but long-term protection of riparian zones.…”

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Are we expecting too much from the private sector in flood adaptation? Scenario-based field experiments with small- and medium-sized firms in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2020

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Adaptive governance approaches emphasize the crucial role of the private sector in enabling climate change adaptation. Yet, the participation of local firms is still lacking, and little is known about the conditions potentially influencing firms’ adaptation decisions and mechanisms that might encourage private sector engagement. We address this gap with an empirical analysis of the willingness of manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to participate financially in collective flood adaptation in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), a hotspot of future climate change risk. Using scenario-based field experiments, we shed light on internal and external conditions that influence potential investments in collective initiatives and explain what role SMEs can play in flood adaptation. We find that direct impacts of floods, perceived self-responsibility, and strong local ties motivate firms to participate in collective adaptation, whereas government support, sufficient financial resources, and previously implemented flood protection strategies reduce the necessity to act collectively. Here, opportunity costs and the handling of other business risks play a decisive role in investment decisions. This study shows that although private sector engagement appears to be a promising approach, it is not a panacea. Collective initiatives on flood adaptation need formal guidance and should involve local business networks and partnerships to give voice to the needs and capacities of SMEs, but such initiatives should not overstretch firms’ responsibilities.

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“…Ho Chi Minh City is expanding quickly and the urban density is increasing. The increase in pressure on space has a downside: the plots of land reserved for urban green spaces decrease and the adjacent construction areas can encroach on the natural water system [6]. As natural vegetation and water systems are being compromised through urban development, the result is more frequent flooding due to high rainfall and river flows [7].…”

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Some Matters relating to Urban Management aiming to Reduction of Environmental Pollution

Tran¹,

Dong²

2019

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Urban areas are constantly developing and rapidly, especially in recent times. According to the United Nations, in 1950 the global urban population accounted for only 29% of the world's population; this figure was 50% in 2009 and will be 60% in 2030 with about 5 billion people. In Vietnam, urban population is projected to account for 38% of the country's population by 2015, 45% of the country's population in 2020 and 50% of the national population by 2025 with about 25 million. In the process of urbanization with growth and development, cities often face significant challenges. These are: 1) Unbalanced development, over-focus on large cities makes the development gap between urban and rural areas more and more increasing; 2) Unsustainable development, rapid technical and social infrastructure systems degrading rapidly, especially housing and environmental sanitation; 3) The administrative management capacity of urban governments must often chase the rapid growth of urban areas; 4) Poverty, crime and unemployment often occur in rapidly growing cities but lack solid economic and technical bases. In order to have an identity of sustainable urban development, development cannot be separated from preserving stability in which urban management is always a very important task.

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Introduction to Ho Chi Minh City

Cited by 7 publications

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Exposure of manufacturing firms to future sea level rise in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Exposure of manufacturing firms to future sea level rise in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Are we expecting too much from the private sector in flood adaptation? Scenario-based field experiments with small- and medium-sized firms in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Some Matters relating to Urban Management aiming to Reduction of Environmental Pollution

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