Managing environmental change in vietnam

Living with Environmental Change: Social Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience in Vietnam

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 35-58

  Kelly, P Mick ^a   Lien, Tran Viet ^b   Hien, Hoang Minh ^a   Ninh, Nguyen Huu ^b   Adger, W Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b HANOI UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

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EID: 85071524002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203995570-12     Document Type: Chapter

References (7)

1. Le Thac Can et al. (1994), are not directly comparable with recent official statistics which include industrial plantations and secondary vegetation cover.
2. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1994), traditional shifting cultivation is no longer widely practised in Vietnam and much of what is referred to as shifting cultivation is actually forest encroachment and clearance.
3. The United Nations Development Program, the Swedish International Development Authority, the United Nations Environment Program and IUCN assisted in the development of the National Environment Action Plan. Available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/vietnam.html
4. Nguyen Anh Tuan (1997), biomass constitutes a major component of total carbon dioxide emissions and releases from this source were growing at a rate of 5 per cent a year over the period 1988 to 1992.
5. Forsyth (1999: 124) for a detailed discussion of renewable energy in Vietnam from the perspective of the climate issue.
6. Vietnam (Granich et al. 1993). The degree to which methane is produced depends on a variety of factors. The nature of the production system is important.
7. Hulme and Brown (1998) for a discussion of the methodology.