On the frontiers of climate and environmental change : vulnerabilities and adaptations in Central Vietnam
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On the frontiers of climate and environmental change : vulnerabilities and adaptations in Central Vietnam
(Environmental science and engineering)
Springer Berlin, 2013
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context. The way in which possible climate impacts interact with a range of other challenges in agriculture, forestry, disaster planning, health care, general economic development, and common livelihoods are presented, and it is argued that greater realism and broader vision are needed in order to address the climate challenge. For instance, unsuitable land- use changes in both coastal and highland regions may increase the vulnerability of rural people, many of whom are already living on the fringes. The author(s) also state(s) that, depending on context, it may be pertinent to address short-term and unsustainable resource use, irregularities in local land management, ineffective governance and social inequality, which are all likely to aggravate the impact of external climate and weather. Not least, it is imperative to integrate general environmental management with any climate-change adaptation effort.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Adaptation to climate and environmental change in Central Vietnam.- Paradoxes in adaptation: Economic growth and socio-economic differentiation.- Is climate change a reality for agriculture in Quang Nam province?.- The Push for plantations: Drivers, rationales and social vulnerabilities in Quang Nam province.- Climate change impacts on natural hazards in mid-central Vietnam: Flood, drought and landslide.- Impediments to climate-induced disaster management: Evidence from Quang Nam, Central Vietnam.- Livelihood stresses under the constraints of climate change vulnerability in Quang Nam.- Rural households: Socio-economic characteristics, community organizing and adaptation abilities.- Natural resource management, vulnerability and climate change: A micro-scale study.- Climate change in the public media: Representations, debates and awareness.- Public health challenges from climatic and environmental change: Observations from Quang Nam.- The Co Minority of Central Vietnam: Interacting cultural and environmental change.- Vietnam's food security: A castle of cards in the winds of climate change?.
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