Assessment of impacts from sea level rise on road infrastructure with possible solutions in Rach Gia City, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam | |
| Author | Do Cong Tu |
| Call Number | AIT Proj. no.UM-13-22 |
| Subject(s) | Roadsl--Environmental aspects--Vietnam--Kien Giang Sea level--Environmental aspects--Vietnam--Kien Giang |
| Note | A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Professional Master in Urban Management |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | |
| Abstract | Climate change (CC) -Sea level rise (SLR) will cause many adverse impacts on ecological environment specially is transport infrastructure. Currently, local governments have a few studies on impacts of Climate change and Sea level rise to social -economic sectors and fields such as agriculture, fishery, the sanitization to forest and coastal ecosystems but no studies assess the impacts of Sea level rise to technical infrastructure of residential communities in the urban area at Kien Giang province. Therefore, this study aims to assess comprehensively the impacts of Sea level rise to the urban road infrastructure such as urban road texture and urban bridge system in the Rach Gia City. It also proposes possible solutions to minimizing the impacts of Sea level rise to the urban road infrastructure system. Secondary documentary research and qualitative methods are the main methodologies used in this study, in which qualitative method conducted through face-to-face interviews with key informants while secondary documents come from different sources such as city’s plans and policies, programs and projects. Field observation is also employed to assess the impacts.The assessment shows that the impacts of climate change and sea level rise to the urban, residential and industrial zones in Rach Gia City are relatively large. The impacts are not only on the physical facilities including road infrastructure but also on the livelihood of the people. This study then proposes possible solutions for the urban infrastructure system to minimizing these impacts. It expected that these solutions would influence the decision-making at the local authority level in the specific policies, investment and construction of important projects, especially in urban road and bridge construction system |
| Year | 2013 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | |
| Type | Project |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Urban Management (UM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Le Thi Thu Huong |
| Examination Committee(s) | Vilas Nitivattananon;Bart, Amrit |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | People’s Committee of Kien Giang Province, Vietnam |
| Degree | Project (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2013 |