TY - CHAP AB - 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). VL - 5 SN - 978-0-85724-485-7, 978-0-85724-486-4/2040-7262 DO - 10.1108/S2040-7262(2010)0000005025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2010)0000005025 AU - Duc Tinh Bui AU - Huu Tuan Tran AU - Phong Tran AU - Dung The Bui AU - Thi Tam Bui ED - Rajib Shaw ED - Juan M. Pulhin ED - Joy Jacqueline Pereira PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/01/01 TI - Chapter 19 Local vulnerability and adaptation to extreme climate events along the central coast of Vietnam T2 - Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective T3 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 393 EP - 416 Y2 - 2024/04/27 ER -