Paradoxes in Adaptation: Economic Growth and Socio-Economic Differentiation. A Case Study of Mid-Central Vietnam

Buch-Hansen, Mogens; Khánh, Nguyễn Ngọc; Anh, Nguyen Hong

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“…Over the past three decades, Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth and has become a major exporter of agricultural and industrial products [26]. Among all of the agricultural crops, rice is by far the most important crop, taking up 75 percent of all crops in Vietnam [27].…”

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“…Farmers, who depend on direct utilization of natural resources, are thus at higher risks than any other social groups at losing their livelihoods during drought events. A typical example of such a paradox between economic growth and socio-economic differentiation in Vietnam is the Vu Gia Thu Bon (VGTB) river basin [26], which is the most important and major river basin in central Vietnam. Located in a tropical, humid, yet significantly uneven rainfall distributed region, VGTB is among the most vulnerable basins in Vietnam to drought, significantly affecting the sustainable development of region, whereas the basin-specific drought monitoring system is still absent [30,31].…”

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Satellite-Based, Multi-Indices for Evaluation of Agricultural Droughts in a Highly Dynamic Tropical Catchment, Central Vietnam

Bui

Nguyen

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Water

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Characterization of droughts using satellite-based data and indices in a steep, highly dynamic tropical catchment, like Vu Gia Thu Bon, which is the most important basin in central Vietnam, has remained a challenge for many years. This study examined the six widely used vegetation indices (VIs) to effectively monitor droughts that are based on their sensitivity with precipitation, soil moisture, and their linkage with the impacts on agricultural crop production and forest fires. Six VIs representing the four main groups, including greenness-based VIs (Vegetation Condition Index), water-based VIs (Normalized Difference Water Index, Land Surface Water Index), temperature-based VIs (Temperature Condition Index), and combined VIs (Vegetation Health Index, Normalized Difference Drought Index) were tested using MODIS data from January 2001 to December 2016 with the support of cloud-based Google Earth Engine computational platform. Results showed that droughts happened almost every year, but with different intensity. Vegetation stress was found to be mainly attributed to precipitation in the rice paddy fields and to temperature in the forest areas. Findings revealed that combined vegetation indices were more sensitive drought indicators in the basin, whereas their performance was different by vegetation type. In the rice paddy fields, NDDI was more sensitive to precipitation than other indices; it better captured droughts and their impacts on crop yield. In the forest areas, VHI was more sensitive to temperature, and thus had better performance than other VIs. Accordingly, NDDI and VHI were recommended for monitoring droughts in the agricultural and forest lands, respectively. The findings from this study are crucial to map drought risks and prepare an effective mitigation plan for the basin.

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Satellite-Based, Multi-Indices for Evaluation of Agricultural Droughts in a Highly Dynamic Tropical Catchment, Central Vietnam

Bui

Nguyen

et al. 2018

Water

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“…The concern for future vulnerability to climate‐induced disasters should extend beyond increases in natural hazards from climate change (or environmental degradation) to encompass changes in Vietnam's socioeconomic fabric. Vietnam's transformation process towards market‐driven forms of production has produced many new opportunities and generated impressive economic growth rates, but at the same time it has also produced new stresses in the form of insufficient land, water and capital, and a range of new inequalities, relating to income, land and labour (Buch‐Hansen et al ., ). Policies that address these more deep‐rooted development issues such as poverty, inequality, infant mortality and access to quality housing are thus likely to lower vulnerability to climate‐induced disasters – irrespectively of the variation (both temporal and spatial) of natural hazards.…”

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Social vulnerability to climate‐induced natural disasters: Cross‐provincial evidence from Vietnam

Rubin

2014

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This paper conducts an analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Vietnam's crossprovincial variations in natural disaster vulnerability. The purpose is twofold: (i) to capture disaggregated vulnerability variations normally obscured by national statistics, thereby providing more nuanced insights into Vietnam's vulnerability to natural disasters; and (ii) to take advantage of the fact that the overall political system and key institutional structures to a large extent are constant across Vietnam's provinces, which makes the analysis a novel addition to the many disaster studies based on cross-national variations. The paper's analysis indicates that much of Vietnam's crossprovincial variations in natural disaster fatalities and economic costs can be explained by differences in key socioeconomic factors. High provincial rates of inequality, poverty and infant mortality, for instance, appear to drive up natural disaster fatalities. Local adaptation efforts should focus as much on these broader socioeconomic dimensions as they focus on the geophysical susceptibility to natural hazards of individual areas.

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“…Those who lose their land are not able to individually negotiate prices, while a range of sources report that compensations may diminish or disappear entirely in the process (Ty 2015 ; Tran et al 2013 ; Ha-Duong et al 2016 ). During fieldwork, provincial authorities were found to unanimously support economic growth over environmental concerns and considerations for highland people displaced by hydropower construction (Buch-Hansen 2013 ; Bruun 2020b ). Similarly, hydropower investors and local governments usually collaborate on the selection of resettlement areas before directly involving the people to be relocated, resulting in most resettlement areas reportedly being insufficient and having poor soil quality.…”

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Authoritarian Environmentalism—Captured Collaboration in Vietnamese Water Management

Bruun

Rubin

2022

Environmental Management

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This article examines collaborative environmental governance under authoritarian political structures. Building on the theoretical frame of authoritarian environmentalism, it peruses fieldwork material collected during 2009–2019 to determine the most prominent features of recent collaborative governance efforts in the field of water management in Vietnam, a historically seasonal flooding-dependent country. A key feature is technocratisation, where top-down management structures and practices prioritise technocratic solutions to environmental challenges over deliberation, awareness raising, and integration of local knowledge. Another equally important feature is authoritarian intensification, by which increasingly complex environmental management functions, coupled with the state’s determination to retain political control, reinforce authoritarian governance. We jointly refer to these features as captured collaboration, signifying a strong authoritarian regime dominance in both vertical and horizontal relations of environmental governance. However, while captured collaboration still appears to be a defining collaborative characteristic, the article acknowledges rising calls for deliberative government in Vietnamese society. This is particularly outspoken in relation to the highly contested issues of hydropower construction and enhanced floods, debates that simultaneously have paved the way for a burgeoning, though much delayed, paradigm shift.

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Paradoxes in Adaptation: Economic Growth and Socio-Economic Differentiation. A Case Study of Mid-Central Vietnam

Cited by 5 publications

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Satellite-Based, Multi-Indices for Evaluation of Agricultural Droughts in a Highly Dynamic Tropical Catchment, Central Vietnam

Satellite-Based, Multi-Indices for Evaluation of Agricultural Droughts in a Highly Dynamic Tropical Catchment, Central Vietnam

Social vulnerability to climate‐induced natural disasters: Cross‐provincial evidence from Vietnam

Authoritarian Environmentalism—Captured Collaboration in Vietnamese Water Management

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