| Author | Nguyen Phuoc Ngoc H |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.UE-12-01 |
| Subject(s) | Climatic changes--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Science in
Urban Environmental Management, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Climate-induced flooding is a threat to sustainable development of Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam. The study examines adaptation responses at the household, community and local
government levels and the relationships between them in two urban localities in the city.
Two communities have been selected to study based on their differences in vulnerability
and adaptive capacity to climate-induced flooding in order to make a contrastive
comparison.
It points out that housing pattern, level of income, and tenure security determine options of
household adaptation. Moreover, source of livelihood, added to social cohesion are
determinants of collective adaptation while governmental pro-poor policy influences
intervention of the state to community practice to adapt to flooding. It also finds out that an
effective collective adaptation, which is supported by the state, could ease the burden on
households in anti-flood practice and that housing density is influential in interaction
between adaptation practices of individual household, community and the state. Interaction
of unplanned adaptation is more serious in the dense area than in the less dense one.
Besides, public-state synergy is of great importance of favoring state intervention m
collective adaptation.
Mixed-method research strategy was employed in this study with the predominance of
qualitative method. Qualitative techniques were in form of focus group interview, key
informant interview and record review while qualitative research were used to analyze the
results of two surveys for two communities, based on the sample population of 200
household heads ( 100 households each community). |
| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Urban Environmental and Management (UE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Sajor, Edsel E. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Resurreccion, Bernadette P. ;Perera, L.A.S Ranjith |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD),
Germany - AlT Fellowship |
| Degree | Thesis (M.S c.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2012 |