Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Luu, Tang; Voorintholt, Derk; Minkman, Ellen; Nguyen, Thanh Binh; Gverdtsiteli, Gvantsa; Linh, Tran Che; Nguyen, Hong Quan

doi:10.1080/02508060.2022.2043015

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“…These risks are compounded by detrimental anthropogenic activities. Globally, the VMD has long been considered among the most susceptible regions to a changing climate (Parry et al, 2007; Van, Nguyen, & Nguyen, 2012; Trung & Thanh, 2013; Giosan et al, 2014; Luu et al, 2022). The upstream floodplains of the VMD, namely the Long Xuyen Quadrangle and Plain of Reeds, naturally flooded each with each year's flood pulse until the extensive construction of high dikes in the late 20th and early 21st century.…”

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Progress toward resilient and sustainable water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

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Yarina²,

Nguyen

et al. 2023

WIREs Water

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Sinking and shrinking, the Vietnamese Mekong Delta is a materialization of dynamic river flows, sediment flows, and coastline processes. Past policy aspirations and extensive water infrastructures have shaped the delta into one the most significant food producing landscapes in Southeast Asia. Yet, these changes have also created new environmental risks by transforming the hydrological system. Research has produced a growing and increasingly diverse empirical literature on the delta's environmental context, without necessarily providing water resource managers, policymakers and practitioners with the information needed to galvanize more resilient development. This focus review presents a detailed overview of the recent scientific findings, exploring how the management of water resources is changing, as well as their inter‐relationship with land use, policy, socio‐economic transitions, and global environmental crises. Compound and systemic risks to the delta include climate change, hydrometeorological hazards, upstream developments and an unsustainable development trajectory. We outline scientific knowledge gaps, as well as the pressing need for sharable analysis‐ready data and innovations. Finally, we provide recommended future research avenues for multiscale actions toward a sustainable and resilient delta future.This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Science of Water > Water Extremes Science of Water > Water and Environmental Change

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Section: Setting the Scenementioning

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Progress toward resilient and sustainable water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

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Yarina²,

Nguyen

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“…The difference in climate and the high-water table needs to be carefully considered. Vietnam's current urban flood adaptation policies focus on the pipe network and living with floods [63]. The fact that associated facilities are designed to collect only surface water is also something to keep in mind when designing PPS (e.g., partial and no infiltration type) [64].…”

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Review of Water and Heat Balances and Challenges to Adoption of Permeable Pavement System in Vietnam

Pham¹

2023

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Permeable pavement system (PPS) contributes to mitigating urban floods and urban heat islands (UHI). PPS has been widely used in developed countries for low-traffic areas, parking lots, and sidewalks. However, PPS has not received much attention in developing countries such as Vietnam. Monitoring studies on PPS mostly focus on hydrological and thermal performance related to volume, rate of flow, and surface temperature, but studies of water and heat balances are somewhat limited. This study, therefore, summarizes hydrological and thermal performance especially focusing water and heat balance in PPS, and the measurement techniques/instruments to construct a suitable monitoring system for application to pavement. In addition, challenges to the adoption of PPS in Vietnam were also investigated, fully considering technical standards/requirements and case studies in developed countries. The results showed that PPS contributes to flooding control due to a large infiltration/drainage component. Water vapor carries away a portion of the energy that arrives at the pavement surface, resulting in a reduction in sensible heat and UHI. Evaporation has been the most difficult component to accurately quantify. A lysimeter system is commonly used to measure components of water balance but cannot be easily integrated into a full-scale PPS installation. A monitoring vault can be used in full-scale applications, but a suitable method is required to accurately determine evaporation. The challenges/requirements for PPS adoption in Vietnam include site-specific, technical/engineered, economic, environmentally friendly, associated facilities, current policies, and awareness.

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“…Government documents “tend to provide goals with a longer temporality, not a short-term step-by-step implementation plan of climate change adaptation and mitigation” (Behrens, 2022, p. 67). This allows lower levels of government to arbitrarily interpret policies as they see fit and ignore unpopular provisions (Luu et al, 2022; Vu, 2012). At the central state level, policymaking seems to be an endless process.…”

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“…The enthusiasm in state institutions to address climate-related issues is often limited unless it is clear from the outset which donor will provide support in the form of money or technical capacity-building (International Advisor, Interview 4). In implementing policies, sub-national governments are trying to balance their priorities with donor funding because their resources for environmental management are scarce (Luu et al, 2022). The availability of donor funding in Vietnam is often a critical factor in determining what actions can be taken to address climate change and environmental challenges.…”

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Can Donors Encourage Authoritarian States to Go Green? Evidence From Vietnamese‒German Development Cooperation

Gverdtsiteli

2023

The Journal of Environment & Development

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Recent debates about “green” authoritarianism have focused on the institutional features of state-led coercive environmentalism. However, the role of various non-state actors in the greening of authoritarian states has remained largely unexplored. Carrying out a case study of Vietnamese‒German development cooperation in the environmental and climate spheres, this article examines the interaction between Vietnamese state institutions and international donors. The article argues that donors play an important role in greening the state policy agenda in Vietnam by funding environmental projects and facilitating knowledge sharing. Nonetheless, donors have very limited freedom to push the political process beyond policymaking and foster meaningful policy implementation. Development practitioners in Vietnam often find themselves caught in a policymaking vacuum, where policymaking is a never-ending process and implementation remains limited. These findings raise broader questions about the effectiveness of climate-related development finance for environmental governance under authoritarian regimes.

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Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Progress toward resilient and sustainable water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Progress toward resilient and sustainable water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Review of Water and Heat Balances and Challenges to Adoption of Permeable Pavement System in Vietnam

Can Donors Encourage Authoritarian States to Go Green? Evidence From Vietnamese‒German Development Cooperation

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