Living With Environmental Change: Social Vulnerability and Resilience in Vietnam (Global Environmental Change)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
Boxes......Page 14
Contributors......Page 15
Preface......Page 20
Part 1 Vietnam and environmental change......Page 24
1 Environment, society and precipitous change......Page 26
2 Social vulnerability and resilience......Page 42
3 Managing environmental change in Vietnam......Page 58
4 Historical perspectives on environment and development......Page 82
Part 2 The natural resource base......Page 100
5 Property rights, institutions and resource management: coastal resources under doi moi......Page 102
6 Forest land allocation and deforestation processes in the uplands......Page 116
7 Sustainable agriculture in the northern uplands: attitudes, constraints and priorities of ethnic minorities......Page 132
8 Environmental change, ecosystem degradation and the value of wetland rehabilitation in the Mekong Delta......Page 145
9 Mangrove conservation and restoration for enhanced resilience......Page 159
10 Responding to El Niño and La Niña: averting tropical cyclone impacts......Page 177
Part 3 Development pathways......Page 206
11 Trade, investment and industrial pollution: lessons from Southeast Asia......Page 208
12 Sustainable urbanisation and environmental issues in Vietnam......Page 236
13 Politics, ecology and water: the Mekong Delta and development of the Lower Mekong Basin......Page 257
14 Prospects for sustainable development......Page 286
References......Page 294
Index......Page 327