Tran Huu Tuan and Bui Dung The
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199841936
- eISBN:
- 9780199950157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841936.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Lying in the tropical monsoon area of the North West Pacific, Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is affected by many kinds of natural disasters such as floods, ...
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Lying in the tropical monsoon area of the North West Pacific, Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is affected by many kinds of natural disasters such as floods, storms, whirlwinds, flash floods, coastline erosion, droughts and landslides. This chapter aims to reach a better understanding of disasters in Vietnam through a review of relevant case studies, policies, plans and strategies. The focus is on the socio-economic aspects of disastersusing documentary research methods. The study finds that disasters in Vietnam cause grave impacts to economic sectors, increase poverty, adversely impactindividual households and the community as large, cause environmental degradation, and induce serious health problems. The review of disaster prevention, response and mitigation measures in Vietnam points to the importance of public education and community awareness about disasters and of enforcement of legislation and policies on disasters.Less
Lying in the tropical monsoon area of the North West Pacific, Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is affected by many kinds of natural disasters such as floods, storms, whirlwinds, flash floods, coastline erosion, droughts and landslides. This chapter aims to reach a better understanding of disasters in Vietnam through a review of relevant case studies, policies, plans and strategies. The focus is on the socio-economic aspects of disastersusing documentary research methods. The study finds that disasters in Vietnam cause grave impacts to economic sectors, increase poverty, adversely impactindividual households and the community as large, cause environmental degradation, and induce serious health problems. The review of disaster prevention, response and mitigation measures in Vietnam points to the importance of public education and community awareness about disasters and of enforcement of legislation and policies on disasters.
Stéphane Hallegatte
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199841936
- eISBN:
- 9780199950157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841936.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This paper reviews the changes in natural hazards that can be expected because of climate change, and discusses their socio-economic impacts. It stresses the fact that these impacts will first and ...
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This paper reviews the changes in natural hazards that can be expected because of climate change, and discusses their socio-economic impacts. It stresses the fact that these impacts will first and foremost depend on risk management policies and adaptation strategies that will be implemented, and proposes insights into needed changes in policies. In particular, it investigates how decision-making approaches should be amended to account for the large uncertainty on future climate conditions, and the ability of cost-benefit analyses to take into account climate change and the related uncertainty.Less
This paper reviews the changes in natural hazards that can be expected because of climate change, and discusses their socio-economic impacts. It stresses the fact that these impacts will first and foremost depend on risk management policies and adaptation strategies that will be implemented, and proposes insights into needed changes in policies. In particular, it investigates how decision-making approaches should be amended to account for the large uncertainty on future climate conditions, and the ability of cost-benefit analyses to take into account climate change and the related uncertainty.
Shobita Parthasarathy
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226437859
- eISBN:
- 9780226437996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226437996.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The Conclusion argues that the political machinery of patents unearthed throughout the book has implications for international legal harmonization and trade agreements as well as patent reform ...
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The Conclusion argues that the political machinery of patents unearthed throughout the book has implications for international legal harmonization and trade agreements as well as patent reform efforts. It suggests further that this analysis can contribute to our understanding of other highly technical policy domains. Finally, it observes that the controversies explored in this book reveal a gap in the governance of the moral and socioeconomic impacts of technologies broadly—notably that policymakers must balance procedurally objective and systematic decisionmaking with responsiveness to the public—which the US and European patent systems have only partially and awkwardly covered but which contemporary societies must learn how to address.Less
The Conclusion argues that the political machinery of patents unearthed throughout the book has implications for international legal harmonization and trade agreements as well as patent reform efforts. It suggests further that this analysis can contribute to our understanding of other highly technical policy domains. Finally, it observes that the controversies explored in this book reveal a gap in the governance of the moral and socioeconomic impacts of technologies broadly—notably that policymakers must balance procedurally objective and systematic decisionmaking with responsiveness to the public—which the US and European patent systems have only partially and awkwardly covered but which contemporary societies must learn how to address.
