Risky change? : vulnerability and adaptation between climate change and transformation dynamics in Can Tho City, Vietnam / Matthias Garschagen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garschagen, Matthias, author.

Series:

Megastädte und globaler Wandel ; Band 15.

Megacities and Global Change ; Band 15

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, [Germany] : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014.

Summary:

Vietnam's cities are not only rapidly transforming under the country's political and economic change, but are also increasingly exposed to natural hazards and threatened by the projected impacts of climate change. The interaction of both trends leads to substantial shifts in risk and to new challenges for adaptation governance which, however, remain poorly understood empirically, neglected theoretically and underemphasized politically. This e-book therefore draws on 14 months of empirical research in Can Tho City to trace the dynamics of urban vulnerability and to examine how the responsibilit

Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Zusammenfassung; 1. Introduction and rationale; 2. Theoretical background and thematic embedding; 2.1 Relevant discourses on risk in human- environment interactions; 2.1.1 Vulnerability and hazards; 2.1.2 Adaptation and adaptive capacity; 2.1.3 Resilience in coupled social ecological systems; 2.2 Relations between concepts of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience; 2.2.1 Vulnerability and resilience; 2.2.2 Adaptive capacity and resilience; 2.2.3 Vulnerability and adaptive capacity

2.2.4 Coping and adaptation2.2.5 The role of exposure; 2.2.6 Taxonomies of risk and vulnerability; 2.3 Theoretical underpinnings of action related to vulnerability and adaptation; 2.3.1 Deciphering action through agency, structure and structuration; 2.3.2 Vulnerability as product of habitus and social fields; 2.3.3 Relevance for this study; 2.4 Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in cities: Particularities, challenges, opportunities; 2.4.1 Why do we need an urban focus?; 2.4.2 Cities, hazards and risk: underemphasized perspectives and knowledge gaps

2.4.3 Urbanization as an agent of risk2.4.4 Conceptualizing and assessing urban risk and vulnerability; 2.4.5 Specific challenges in low and middle income countries; 2.4.6 Urban potential for risk reduction and mitigation; 2.5 Governance and management of urban risk and adaptation; 2.5.1 Governance and risk management concepts; 2.5.2 Entry points for governmental urban risk management; 2.5.3 Relevance of urban governance perspectives; 2.5.4 Challenges for (urban) risk and adaptation governance; 3. Integrative framework for vulnerability and adaptation analysis

3.1 Synthesis on the deficits in hitherto approaches to vulnerability and adaptation3.2 Setup and structure of the advanced integrative framework; 3.3 Innovations, strengths and limits of the framework; 4. Research context: Risk and transformation in Vietnam; 4.1 Natural hazards and disaster risk management; Natural hazards and disasters in the Mekong Delta and in Can Tho City; Disaster risk management in Vietnam; 4.2 Projected climate change impacts and adaptation policy; Projected climate change (impacts) in the Mekong Delta and in Can Tho City

4.8 Current state of risk assessments in Can Tho City, remaining knowledge gaps and resulting rationale

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 28, 2014).

ISBN:

3-515-10881-5