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Risky change? Vulnerability and adaptation between climate change and transformation dynamics in Can Tho City, Vietnam

:	Matthias Garschagen
:	Risky change? Vulnerability and adaptation between climate change and transformation dynamics in Can Tho City, Vietnam
:	Franz Steiner Verlag
:	9783515108812
:	Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel
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:	CHF 61.50
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:	English

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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.

	Table of Contents	6
	List of Figures	9
	List of Tables	11
	Abbreviations	12
	Acknowledgements	14
	Abstract	16
	Zusammenfassung	20
	1. Introduction and rationale	24
	2. Theoretical background and thematic embedding	31
	2.1 Relevant discourses on risk in human- environment interactions	31
	2.1.1 Vulnerability and hazards	32
	2.1.2 Adaptation and adaptive capacity	53
	2.1.3 Resilience in coupled social ecological systems	63
	2.2 Relations between concepts of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience	70
	2.2.1 Vulnerability and resilience	71
	2.2.2 Adaptive capacity and resilience	72
	2.2.3 Vulnerability and adaptive capacity	74
	2.2.4 Coping and adaptation	74
	2.2.5 The role of exposure	75
	2.2.6 Taxonomies of risk and vulnerability	76
	2.3 Theoretical underpinnings of action related to vulnerability and adaptation	77
	2.3.1 Deciphering action through agency, structure and structuration	77
	2.3.2 Vulnerability as product of habitus and social fields	80
	2.3.3 Relevance for this study	80
	2.4 Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in cities: Particularities, challenges, opportunities	82
	2.4.1 Why do we need an urban focus?	82
	2.4.2 Cities, hazards and risk: underemphasized perspectives and knowledge gaps	85
	2.4.3 Urbanization as an agent of risk	89
	2.4.4 Conceptualizing and assessing urban risk and vulnerability	93
	2.4.5 Specific challenges in low and middle income countries	94
	2.4.6 Urban potential for risk reduction and mitigation	96
	2.5 Governance and management of urban risk and adaptation	97
	2.5.1 Governance and risk management concepts	97
	2.5.2 Entry points for governmental urban risk management	99
	2.5.3 Relevance of urban governance perspectives	101
	2.5.4 Challenges for (urban) risk and adaptation governance	102
	3. Integrative framework for vulnerability and adaptation analysis	104
	3.1 Synthesis on the deficits in hitherto approaches to vulnerability and adaptation	104
	3.2 Setup and structure of the advanced integrative framework	106
	3.3 Innovations, strengths and limits of the framework	114
	4. Research context: Risk and transformation in Vietnam	117
	4.1 Natural hazards and disaster risk management	118
	Natural hazards and disasters in the Mekong Delta and in Can Tho City	120
	Disaster risk management in Vietnam	123
	4.2 Projected climate change impacts and adaptation policy	126
	Projected climate change (impacts) in the Mekong Delta and in Can Tho City	127
	Emerging climate adaptation policy in Vietnam	129
	4.3 Socio-economic and political transformation: two parallel worlds?	131
	Ð.i m.i: its origin, progression and vulnerability effects	132
	4.4 The political and administrative system revisited	139
	4.5 State-society relations – under transformation?	144
	4.6 Urbanization in Vietnam and the Mekong Delta	148