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This case study was developed for the professional training of architects and urban planners in Vietnam, to enable them to integrate climate change adaptation into their professional work. It focuses on river embankment construction in Vietnam to prevent

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This framework provides operational guidance to government planners and other practitioners on how to develop and mainstream ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region. The framework is guided by available literature, best practices

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Climate variability and change can pose risks to the integrity and performance of low-emission development (LED) investments, yet most LED planners don’t yet routinely consider the potential effects of climate on their programs and projects. Fortunately

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This report sumarizes the findings and experiences from a project in flood-prone Thua Thien Hue province in Central Vietnam with the objective to increase the knowledge base on ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and to strengthen the flood resilience of the

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Climate-related disaster events are common phenomena in Southeast Asia, particularly in the low-lying major cities of Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. With this in mind, this project intended to link loss and damage (L&D), disaster

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The purpose of this Strategic Partnership Arrangement is to define the context and strategic objectives of a preferred collaboration between Viet Nam and the Netherlands in the field of climate change and water management, by providing a framework for

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This paper develops a conceptual framework with an indicator-based approach to assess Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) and applies it to case study sites in Lao PDR (Ekxang CSV), Cambodia (Rohal Suong CSV), and Vietnam (Tra Hat CSV) in Southeast Asia. The

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The intangible impacts of floods on welfare are not well investigated, even though they are important aspects of welfare. Moreover, flooding has gender based impacts on welfare. These differing impacts create a gender based flood risk resilience gap.

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