Urban design principles for flood resilience: Learning from the ecological wisdom of living with floods in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 155, Issue , 2016, Pages 69-78

  Liao, Kuei Hsien ^a   Le, Tuan Anh ^b   Nguyen, Kien Van ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c An Giang University Vietnam National University HCMC   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Flood hazard mitigation; Living with floods; Mekong Delta; Urban design; Urban resilience

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FLOOD CONTROL; HAZARDS;

ADAPTATION; FLOOD HAZARDS; MEKONG DELTA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN RESILIENCE;

FLOODS;

FLOOD; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; KNOWLEDGE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 84992216754     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.01.014     Document Type: Article

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