Adapting to Climate Extreme Events Based on Livelihood Strategies: Evidence from Rural Areas in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

Dao Duy Minh,Nguyen Dang Hao,Philippe Lebailly

doi:10.3390/su122410498

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The key farming communities in Vietnam are generally poor and lack resources to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate extreme events (CEEs), but the extent of their adaptation strategies is not well understood. This study aims to analyze the impacts of CEEs, current barriers, and adaptation strategies based on three categories of livelihood strategies. The classification method is first used to divide the livelihood strategy into these three categories, and a multinomial logistic model (MLS) is then applied to determine the set of parameters that affect adaptation options. CEEs result in significant damage in terms of both financial and health dimensions. Various barriers remain, such as the low capacity of relevant staff, lack of local budgets, and outdated methods being used to estimate and mitigate the impacts of CEEs. Notably, there were over 44%, and 28% conducted reactive and proactive adaptations, respectively, while a high percentage of households did not implement at least one adaptation method, around 27%. The MLS model is able to explain about 51.2% of the driving factors that influence adaptation strategies. In addition, the behavior of households in choosing adaptation methods shows the difference between perceptions of CEEs’ impacts and livelihood strategy profiles. There is a need for a package of adaptive solutions to address the impacts of CEEs that cover the many different household perspectives and involve stakeholders at multiple levels.

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Climate change (CC) and climate extreme events (CEEs), along with their impacts, have attracted great attention from theory to practice
In the couple of decades, Vietnam is one of the main countries identified as being most vulnerable to climate change in the world [5], heavier impacts are expected in the long term
The core assumption of this model is that households will select an adaptation method based on the belief that they could perceive the utility of their decision compared to another choice

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Climate change (CC) and climate extreme events (CEEs), along with their impacts, have attracted great attention from theory to practice. Some recent studies have presented adverse scenarios involving the severe impacts of climate change. The current studies indicate that due to CC issues, many delta regions will be affected earlier and more severely in various parts of the world, such as the Vietnam Delta River, Myanmar, China, and other countries [1,2,3,4,5]. An estimation has shown that 150 to 200 million climate migrants may be affected due to the impacts of environmental issues by 2050 [6,7]. In particular, is among the nine countries where at least 50 million people will be exposed to the impacts of rising sea levels and more powerful storms, among other dangers [6]. More attention should be paid to developing action plans at the global and national levels

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