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1 Tran, T. A.; Pittock, J.; Tuan, L. A. 2019. Adaptive co-management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: examining the interface between flood management and adaptation. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 35(2):325-341. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2018.1437713]
Water management ; Flood control ; Adaptation ; Co-management ; Water policy ; Local government ; Stakeholders ; Corporate culture ; Farmers ; Households ; Case studies ; Deltas / Vietnam / Mekong Delta / An Giang / Dong Thap / Can Tho
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049090)
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The rural landscapes of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta have undergone a dramatic change, where flood management and adaptation are at the forefront. This article investigates how these synergies facilitate policy change. Drawing on qualitative information from the literature, focus group discussions, and interviews, the article argues that there are confrontational but complementary effects between them, which evolve towards adaptive co-management. Collaborative learning between local governments and farmers enables shared understanding of water management drawbacks, leading to policy change. The article recommends that more attention be given to this approach to guide strategic water policy development in the region.
2 Tran, T. A.; Nguyen, T. H.; Vo, T. T. 2019. Adaptation to flood and salinity environments in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: empirical analysis of farmer-led innovations. Agricultural Water Management, 216:89-97. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.01.020]
Flooding ; Salinity ; Salt water intrusion ; Adaptation ; Strategies ; Farmer participation ; Innovation systems ; Water management ; Agricultural practices ; Policies ; Rural communities ; Case studies / Vietnam / Mekong Delta / Phu Thanh B Commune / Phu Xuan Commune / Thoi Hung Commune / Long Phu Commune / Dai Ngai Commune
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049198)
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Agriculture is exposed to climatic impacts, especially in developing countries. Adaptation is the predominant practice that farming communities undertake to deal with these climate-induced challenges. While significant attention has been devoted to farmers’ adaptation strategies, little is known about how innovative practices are associated with the improvement of rural livelihoods. To address this gap, the paper attempts to investigate how farmers lead the process of rural innovations that constitute successful forms of adaptation to address the mixed impacts of dyke policies and climate change in two distinct agro-ecological zones (i.e. flooding and salinity) in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). Drawing on qualitative information collected from focus group discussions and interviews across the case studies, the paper argues that farmers are the key innovation actors who contribute to improving rural farming and water management practices. The study suggests that the evolution of farmer-led innovations is mainly attributed to the operation of various informal learning networks that provide important platforms for the generation and diffusion of effective innovative practices across farming communities. It also highlights how farmers contribute their innovative knowledge to local adaptation policies. From the policy perspective, this study sees the development of rural innovation systems as the best practices of farmers’ adaptation, which needs to be scaled out to better support agricultural water management in the delta.
3 Tran, T. A.; Tuan, L. A. 2020. Policy transfer into flood management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: a North Vam Nao study. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 36(1):106-126. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2019.1568862]
Water management ; Flood control ; Water governance ; Policies ; Decision making ; Participatory approaches ; Agricultural production ; Rice ; Intensive farming ; Institutions ; Communities ; Infrastructure ; Stakeholders ; Case studies / Vietnam / Mekong Delta / North Vam Nao scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049520)
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Water-management practices in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta have predominantly focused on structural development (e.g., dykes) to support rice-based agricultural production. Given the existing conventional approach, however, many of these efforts have been rendered ineffective . This study adopts the policy transfer concept to investigate how the participatory approach is introduced into the local institutional system, and how it shapes the construction, operation and management of the North Vam Nao scheme. Results suggest that this allowed stakeholders to engage collaboratively in these processes. The study contributes an empirical understanding of how policy transfer enhances institutional capacity for water resources management in the delta.
4 Tran, T. A.; Suhardiman, Diana. 2020. Laos’ hydropower development and cross-border power trade in the Lower Mekong Basin: a discourse analysis. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61(2):219-235. (Special issue: Governing the Transboundary Commons of Southeast Asia) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12269]
Hydroelectric power generation ; Energy generation ; International trade ; Trade agreements ; Energy policies ; Governance ; State intervention ; Strategies ; Development projects ; Dams ; River basins ; Economic aspects ; Markets ; Environmental effects / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Thailand / Vietnam / Lower Mekong Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049593)
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Increasing demands for energy to boost the Mekong economies have attracted the keen interest of riparian countries for hydropower development. This is evidenced by extensive investment in hydropower projects across the region over the last few decades. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders, including officials from Ministry of Energy and Mines, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, private sector actors, civil society organisations and academics, as well as secondary data from public and policy resources, this paper aims to examine how the government of Laos’ (GoL) decisions in hydropower development are influenced by regional energy dynamics, and how these shape the country’s future energy development. The paper argues that the GoL’s decisions on hydropower development are highly dilemmatic, given the current limited institutional capacity in hydropower governance and the accelerating evolution of alternative energy in neighbouring countries. While uncertainty in power markets is recognised, this places greater pressure on new hydropower projects as to how much power could be sufficiently produced and exported. The paper calls for GoL’s policy considerations on the development and planning of alternative energy to secure the sustainable and equitable use of water resources as stipulated in the 1995 Mekong Agreement.
5 Bayrak, M. M.; Hieu, T. V.; Tran, T. A.; Hsu, Y.-Y.; Nien, T.; Quynh, D. T. T. 2023. Climate change adaptation responses and human mobility in the Mekong Delta: local perspectives from rural households in an Giang Province, Vietnam. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10:344. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01817-5]
Climate change adaptation ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Livelihoods ; Households ; Water power ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Environmental factors / Vietnam / Mekong Delta / An Giang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052286)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01817-5.pdf?pdf=button%20sticky
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052286.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052286.pdf
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Climate change influences the adaptation responses and mobility patterns of smallholder farmers across multiple scales. This study employed an inductive approach to observe smallholder farmers in An Giang Province in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta to compare the effects of various environmental and climate-related stressors on households with and without contributing migrant household members and on households of different income levels in two rural communes. We looked into the roles that adaptation responses and human mobility patterns play in the daily livelihoods of (translocal) households. We adopted a mixed-methods approach, which involved the administration of a livelihood survey among households in two rural communes (N = 106) and, subsequently, two focus group discussions, unstructured in-depth interviews, and secondary data analysis. We discovered that human mobility, adaptation responses, and climate change are interwoven in a web of complex relationships. No clear differences in effects and climate adaptation responses were discovered between emigrant and nonemigrant households. Hence, paradigms that either portray migration as a failure to adapt or as a form of adaptation in the context of climate change do not adequately explain the findings of this study. Differences between income groups were, however, observed. Relative to other income groups, middle-income farmers were disproportionally affected by climate-related disasters. Additionally, out-migration, aging, upstream hydropower development, and COVID-19 lockdowns posed significant challenges to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. The compound effects of these multiple stressors indicate that human mobility, climate change and adaptation patterns should be best approached as ‘wicked’ problems.
6 Tran, T. A.; Pittock, J. 2024. When water policies derail livelihood aspirations: farmers’ agency in everyday politics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Environmental Sociology, 13p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2323601]
Water policies ; Livelihoods ; Politics ; Infrastructure ; Water management ; Freshwater ; Coastal zones ; Local government ; Farmers ; Saline water ; Shrimp culture ; Brackishwater aquaculture ; case studies / Vietnam / Mekong Delta / Ben Tre Province / Binh Dai District / Thanh Tri / Thanh Phuoc
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052717)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23251042.2024.2323601?download=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052717.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052717.pdf
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Development of water infrastructure is conventionally prioritised as a pre-emptive intervention policy to address water challenges. In the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, turning a river into a reservoir is touted as a ‘highly-modernist’ water management approach to secure the year-round supply of freshwater for agricultural production. This paper investigates how contested water-livelihood relations emerged from the building of the Ba Lai sluice scheme in Ben Tre Province, and how these processes demonstrate farmers’ agency in everyday politics in seeking solutions for livelihood sustainability. Drawing on a qualitative case study in Binh Dai District, we argue that, while the scheme successfully fulfils the state’s political intention in securing water supply for freshwater-based crop production in coastal zones, it generates contestation between the local government’s attempts to enforce freshwater policies and farmers’ agency in maintaining productive livelihoods. The findings suggest that power asymmetries are embedded within these water-livelihood relations. We find that seeking just solutions that have co-benefits for water management and livelihood sustainability should go beyond business-as-usual water politics by adequately recognising the agency of farmers in sustainable development. The case study offers lessons for navigating the sustainable future of water development projects in coastal deltas and beyond.
7 Tran, T. A.; Tran, D. D.; Vo, O. V.; Pham, V. H. T.; Tran, H. V.; Yong, M. L.; Le, P. V.; Dang, P. T. 2024. Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: an adaptive management perspective. Ambio, 15p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02045-0]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI HQ Record No: H052941)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02045-0.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052941.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052941.pdf
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The interplay of climate change, upstream hydropower development, and local water engineering interventions for agricultural production contributes substantially to the transformation of waterscapes and water scarcity in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. This paper aims to examine how these dynamics are linked to the paradigm shift in water management in An Giang and Ben Tre, the two ecologically distinct provinces that face serious water scarcity in the delta. We used the adaptive management concept to examine how state-led policy directions from food security towards water security enable change in water management that gives priority to water retention. While policy learning is evident, questions remain about how this ad-hoc solution could help address the presently acute water scarcity and water security over the long term. The paper advocates achieving water security should focus not only on diplomatic interventions into upstream climate-development complexities but also local water-livelihood politics.
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