Unpacking local impacts of climate change: learning with a coastal community in Central Vietnam

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Huu Trung Nguyen
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[1] National Institute of Agricultural Planning and Projection (NIAPP),Rural Community Development Centre
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Natural Hazards | 2018年 / 93卷
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Climate change; Coastal communities; Five capitals; Livelihoods; Natural hazards; Vietnam;
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Large-scale climate models (LCM) have been used to understand climate change and its effects, but there remains a concern about their inability fully to reflect local contexts and about a high degree of their uncertainty. Through a case study that involved residents of a coastal community in Central Vietnam, this paper presents how local people perceive climate change and characterize climate impacts on their life. Findings of the study show that local people perceive a variety of important manifestations of climate change, especially temperature, rainfall, sea level rise and monsoons, although they have limited ideas about future climate change. In addition, local people unpack the complexity of climate impacts through interactions among climatic events, livelihoods and the five capitals (physical, natural, financial, human and social resources). Findings of the research suggest that it will be necessary to move away from viewing coastal villages in Vietnam as homogenous units with shared climate experiences, and to combine both local experience and scientific evidence based on LCMs to promote the synergies and address the limitations of the two sources of information for climate interventions at the local level.
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