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“Nothing Is Like It Was Before”: The Dynamics between Land-Use and Land-Cover, and Livelihood Strategies in the Northern Vietnam Borderlands
Land uses are changing rapidly in Vietnam’s upland northern borderlands. Regional development platforms such as the Greater Mekong Subregion, state-propelled market integration...
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Land Transparency Study: Synthesis Report
This report presents the results of a novel study on land transparency in Vietnam; a study that focuses on the actual provision of information related to land. This study was pr...
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Land Law, Land Rights, and Land Reform in Vietnam: A Deeper Look into “Land Grabbing” for Public and Private Development
As Vietnam continues to search for its ideal balance between Communist control and a market-led economy, land rights emerge at the forefront of the discussion concerning the ten...
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Conversion of land use in Vietnam through a political economy lens
This article applies a political economy approach to processes of agricultural land conversion through analysis of the interests and incentives of key actors within and outside ...
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Water resources for sustainable development in Vietnam - Opportunities and challenges
The article addresses the important role of water resources in the socio-economic development of Vietnam, some challenges of water resource management, and promotes nine measure...
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Study on the Impacts of Mainstream Hydropower on the Mekong River - Draft Impact Assessment Report: Impact Assessment Methods and Results – Summary Version
This document is a summary version of the Mekong Delta Study (MDS) Impact Assessment Report (IAR). There have been constant worries that construction and operation of any o...
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Water resources-challenges and strategies for the management and use of water resources for the sustainable development of the Mekong river delta
A conference presentation by a MONRE representative in Can Tho 2017 on the following: I. Patterns of Water Resource Use in the Mekong Delta 1.The needs of the entire Mekon...
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Equity in water resource use
Decree No. 82/2017 / ND-CP was released by the Prime Minister stipulating the method of allocating water usage rights offiicially took effect on the 1st of September 1, 2017. Th...
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Decision 432: Approving the Vietnam Sustainable Development Strategy 2011-2020
To ratify the strategy for sustainable development in Vietnam in the 2011-2020 period with the following principal contents: i. Perspectives, objectives and priority orientatio...
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Decision 81: Approving the National Strategy on Water Resources to 2020
Decision to implement guidelines on water resource protection; including both general and specific objectives aimed at the protection, efficient use and sustainable development ...
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Law On Marine and Island Resources and Environment
This Law prescribes integrated management of marine and island resources and protection of the marine and island environment; and the rights, obligations and responsibilities of...
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Mangrove Communities and Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases in Vietnam: Cases in Vietnam
Mangrove forest belts have very important role on reducing the impacts of natural disasters in the coastal areas. However, in the last three decades, under the pressures of incr...
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To ensure the security of water resources for sustainable development
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai affirmed the water policy of Vietnam at the international conference of Vietnam Water Cooperation Initiative (VACI 2015) on "Water security...
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Vietnam water resources - problems required for completing the policy and legislation on water resources
The article includes 4 parts: (i) Overview of water resources in Vietnam (ii) 8 major issues of water resources in Vietnam (iii) System of legal documents on water resources and...
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Current Fisheries and Aquaculture Policies Relevant to RFLP in Viet Nam
The Fisheries sector is a significant contribution to the economy of Vietnam, the export value in 2008 was US$ 4.509 billion. The natural resources, particularly inshore fisheri...
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Assessing Groundwater Quality by Using Information Thematic Map: Case Study in Phong Dien District, Can Tho City
This research was conducted to evaluating the quality of groundwater and building the geographic information system, building maps of groundwater quality Phong Dien area of Can ...
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Strengthening the voice of the community for informed choices - Land use and land use changes in Central Vietnam
Oxfam and its local partners have observed the development of a number of agro-forestry enterprises in some project areas. Oxfam shares some community experiences in central pro...
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Options for monitoring forest degradation in northern Vietnam: an assessment in systems design and capacity building needs in Con Cuong District, Nghe An province
The report is about options for monitoring forest degradation in northern Vietnam based on an assessment in systems design and capacity-building needs in Con Cuong District. The...
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An approach to designing pro-poor local REDD+ benefit distribution systems: Lessons from Vietnam
Provides lessons learned from Vietnam's approach to designing a pro-poor REDD+ benefits distribution system for the future development of effective benefit distribution systems ...
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Overview of Vietnam surface water
This report outlines the important features of Vietnam surface water in 3 regions, the current situation, challenges, future management recommendation for useage of surface water.