Garschagen Risky change?

Vulnerability and adaptation between climate change and transformation dynamics in Can Tho City, Vietnam
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-515-10881-2
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 15, 432 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel

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 responsibilities and capacities for risk reduction are negotiated within the country’s transforming political economy.

Based on a mixed methods approach, the study offers fresh empirical insights and innovative theoretical explanations targeting some of the most pressing gaps in current risk and adaptation science.

These revolve particularly around the vexed causal relations between vulnerability and adaptation, the capture of (future) vulnerability pathways, the role of structural versus agentive factors for explaining adaptation action and the cross-scale synergies but also rifts between state and non-state measures for risk reduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garschagen, Matthias

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;6
2;List of Figures;9
3;List of Tables;11
4;Abbreviations;12
5;Acknowledgements;14
6;Abstract;16
7;Zusammenfassung;20
8;1. Introduction and rationale;24
9;2. Theoretical background and thematic embedding;31
9.1;2.1 Relevant discourses on risk in human- environment interactions;31
9.1.1;2.1.1 Vulnerability and hazards;32
9.1.2;2.1.2 Adaptation and adaptive capacity;53
9.1.3;2.1.3 Resilience in coupled social ecological systems;63
9.2;2.2 Relations between concepts of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience;70
9.2.1;2.2.1 Vulnerability and resilience;71
9.2.2;2.2.2 Adaptive capacity and resilience;72
9.2.3;2.2.3 Vulnerability and adaptive capacity;74
9.2.4;2.2.4 Coping and adaptation;74
9.2.5;2.2.5 The role of exposure;75
9.2.6;2.2.6 Taxonomies of risk and vulnerability;76
9.3;2.3 Theoretical underpinnings of action related to vulnerability and adaptation;77
9.3.1;2.3.1 Deciphering action through agency, structure and structuration;77
9.3.2;2.3.2 Vulnerability as product of habitus and social fields;80
9.3.3;2.3.3 Relevance for this study;80
9.4;2.4 Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in cities: Particularities, challenges, opportunities;82
9.4.1;2.4.1 Why do we need an urban focus?;82
9.4.2;2.4.2 Cities, hazards and risk: underemphasized perspectives and knowledge gaps;85
9.4.3;2.4.3 Urbanization as an agent of risk;89
9.4.4;2.4.4 Conceptualizing and assessing urban risk and vulnerability;93
9.4.5;2.4.5 Specific challenges in low and middle income countries;94
9.4.6;2.4.6 Urban potential for risk reduction and mitigation;96
9.5;2.5 Governance and management of urban risk and adaptation;97
9.5.1;2.5.1 Governance and risk management concepts;97
9.5.2;2.5.2 Entry points for governmental urban risk management;99
9.5.3;2.5.3 Relevance of urban governance perspectives;101
9.5.4;2.5.4 Challenges for (urban) risk and adaptation governance;102
10;3. Integrative framework for vulnerability and adaptation analysis;104
10.1;3.1 Synthesis on the deficits in hitherto approaches to vulnerability and adaptation;104
10.2;3.2 Setup and structure of the advanced integrative framework;106
10.3;3.3 Innovations, strengths and limits of the framework;114
11;4. Research context: Risk and transformation in Vietnam;117
11.1;4.1 Natural hazards and disaster risk management;118
11.1.1;Natural hazards and disasters in the Mekong Delta and in Can Tho City;120
11.1.2;Disaster risk management in Vietnam;123
11.2;4.2 Projected climate change impacts and adaptation policy;126
11.2.1;Projected climate change (impacts) in the Mekong Delta and in Can Tho City;127
11.2.2;Emerging climate adaptation policy in Vietnam;129
11.3;4.3 Socio-economic and political transformation: two parallel worlds?;131
11.3.1;Ð.i m.i: its origin, progression and vulnerability effects;132
11.4;4.4 The political and administrative system revisited;139
11.5;4.5 State-society relations – under transformation?;144
11.6;4.6 Urbanization in Vietnam and the Mekong Delta;148
11.6.1;Urban growth and expansion – driver of vulnerability?;149
11.6.2;Root causes of social vulnerability in Vietnam’s cities;150
11.6.3;Urban upgrading projects and resettlement;155
11.6.4;Local urban risk governance under transformation;156
11.7;4.7 Why focusing on Can Tho City?;158
11.8;4.8 Current state of risk assessments in Can Tho City, remaining knowledge gaps and resulting rationale;162
12;5. Methodology;165
12.1;5.1 Epistemological approach and research design;165
12.2;5.2 Applied mix of methods for data collection and analysis;169
12.2.1;Fieldwork procedure;171
12.2.2;Open and semi-structured household interviews;171
12.2.3;Semi-structured expert interviews;172
12.2.4;Standardized household surveys;174
12.2.5;Focus group discussions;183
12.2.6;Participatory Urban Appraisal;184
12.2.7;Secondary data collection and analysis;185
12.3;5.3 Selection of case study areas;185
12.4;5.4 Obstacles and limits of data collection;188
12.4.1;Research permissions and access to the field;188
12.4.2;Political control and the difficulties of open discourse;189
12.4.3;Language barriers and translation;192
12.4.4;Quality and trustworthiness of secondary data;193
13;6. Analysis of primary empirical data;194
13.1;6.1 Governmental risk management in Can Tho City: Achievements and deficits;194
13.1.1;6.1.1 Disaster risk management;195
13.1.2;6.1.2 Urban planning and management;215
13.1.3;6.1.3 Formal climate change adaptation;231
13.1.4;6.1.4 Interim synthesis: synergies and gaps in formal risk management;251
13.2;6.2. Vulnerability and adaptation at household level;254
13.2.1;6.2.1 Hazard exposure;255
13.2.2;6.2.2 Susceptibility;270
13.2.3;6.2.3 Coping capacities and measures;283
13.2.4;6.2.4 Adaptive capacity and implemented adaptation measures;295
13.2.5;6.2.5 Interim synthesis: vulnerability, adaptive capacity and adaptation action at household level;325
14;7. Synthesis, discussion and reflection;331
14.1;7.1 Empirical and Contextual results;331
14.1.1;7.1.1 Governmental risk management: current and future capacities;331
14.1.2;7.1.2 Causal fabric of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at household level;337
14.1.3;7.1.3 (Dis-) integration of state and non-state adaptation action?;347
14.1.4;7.1.4 Climate risk narratives – environmental determinism reloaded?;349
14.1.5;7.1.5 Potentials and limits of hard vs. soft adaptation measures;351
14.1.6;7.1.6 Dynamic impacts of transformation on vulnerability and adaptive capacity;352
14.1.7;7.1.7 Implications for future vulnerability pathways;356
14.2;7.2 Epistemological and methodological Approach;359
14.2.1;7.2.1 Mixed method approach: usefulness and achievements;359
14.2.2;7.2.2 Remaining limits and black spots;360
14.3;7.3 Conceptual and theoretical Contributions;362
14.3.1;7.3.1 Advancing the reach and coherency of vulnerability and adaptation concepts;362
14.3.2;7.3.2 Accommodating dynamic developments and future-oriented assessments;369
14.3.3;7.3.3 Integrating new epistemic elements into adaptation concepts;371
14.3.4;7.3.4 Bridging between scales and actors in vulnerability and adaptation science;373
14.3.5;7.3.5 Linking development and adaptation agendas through generic and specific capacities;374
14.4;7.4 Recommendations for practitioners and policy makers;375
15;8. Conclusions and Outlook;381
16;9. References;389
17;10. Appendix;416
17.1;10.3. Lists of interviews;426
17.2;10.4. Summary of the flood hydrology in the Mekong Delta;431
17.3;10.5. Content of digital supplementary appendix;433