hazard maps and spatial socioeconomic data. The paper also examines flood exposure and poverty at the local level within Ho …, while the main strategy in Vietnam today to manage flood risk is to reduce exposure, the increase in exposure estimated in …With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural …

This study combines high-resolution, geo-spatial data and household data from the Vietnam Living Standard Measurement … Surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 to investigate the relationship between environmental risks and poverty. Using recently … developed data on air pollution, tree cover loss, land degradation, slope, rainfall and temperature variability, and flood and …

-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as … households, suggesting that different mechanisms?such as land scarcity?are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …

working-age adults (particularly males), dependency ratios, and poverty incidence than their counterparts in non … outside earnings. Those left behind face a far greater likelihood of extreme poverty than their counterparts in less …

-level socioeconomic resilience. Because floods disproportionally affect poor people, each $1 of global flood asset loss is equivalent to a … reduce flood losses in each country. It shows that considering asset losses is insufficient to assess disaster risk …

in Vietnam shows that the main determinant of the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 is the income of unskilled … significant impact on poverty in Vietnam in about a quarter of the scenarios, with 400,000 to more than a million people living in …The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and …

Ho Chi Minh City faces significant and growing flood risk. Recent risk reduction efforts may be insufficient as climate … demonstrates how robust decision making can help Ho Chi Minh City develop integrated flood risk management strategies in the face … flood risk management in Ho Chi Minh City's Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal catchment area. It found that the soon …

Two-thirds of Bangladesh is less than 5 meters above sea level, making it one of the most flood prone countries in the … model of extreme floods out to 2050. Using the 1998 flood as a benchmark for evaluating additional protection measures, the …