Chapter 19 Local vulnerability and adaptation to extreme climate events along the central coast of Vietnam

Abstract

A review of the existing literature on disasters, impact, local vulnerability, and adaptation indicates to the fact that recent increasing frequency of natural disasters (e.g., floods, storms, and drought) have increasingly caused impacts on a diverse set of physical and biological systems, especially for those living in the developing countries where their livelihood strategies rely on natural resources (McCarthy, Canziani, Leary, Dokken, & White, 2001; Selvaraju, Subbiah, Baas, & Juergens, 2006; Kumar, 2007; Cruz et al., 2007).

Citation

Duc Tinh, B., Huu Tuan, T., Phong, T., Dung The, B. and Thi Tam, B. (2010), "Chapter 19 Local vulnerability and adaptation to extreme climate events along the central coast of Vietnam", Shaw, R., Pulhin, J.M. and Jacqueline Pereira, J. (Ed.) Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 393-416. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2010)0000005025