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Impacts of green space decline on urban heat in Hue City

Impacts of green space decline on urban heat in Huế City, Vietnam Summary Huế City is an urban area that is frequently affected by extreme weather events and natural disasters. Among these hazards, extreme heat is becoming increasingly severe due to the impacts of climate change. In addition to extreme climatic conditions, the process of urban development, resulting in […]

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Policy Brief Flood risks in urban areas

Policy Brief Flood risks in urban areas More than an act of nature Overview Flood risks have been escalating in urban and peri-urban areas in Vietnam. However, flood risk management in many of these areas has not received due attention or is not effective. Until now, disaster risk management in Vietnam has mainly focused on

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Sustaining Urban Resilience in Vietnam ACCCRN Workshop Summary

Workshop Summary Sustaining Urban Resilience in Vietnam Lessons from 7 years of ACCCRN Overview This is the proceeding of the workshop “Sustaining Urban Resilience in Vietnam: Lessons from 7 years of ACCCRN”, organized by ISET on 24 November 2016. Disaster Risk Reduction/Hazard Management; Local Empowerment; Monitoring and Evaluation; Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation; Shared Learning

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Climate action plan Hue City

Climate action plan for Hue city Responding to Climate Change from 2014-2020 Overview In 2011, Hue City was selected by the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) to implement the Mekong-Building Climate Resilient Asian Cities (M-BRACE) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). One of the main components of the

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Climate action plan Lao Cai City

Climate action plan for Lao Cai City Responding to Climate Change from 2014-2020 and Visioning to 2030 Overview In 2011, Lao Cai City was selected by the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) to implement the project Mekong-Building Climate Resilient Asian Cities (M-BRACE) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). One

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Changing cities and changing climate insights from shared learning dialogues in Thailand and Vietnam

Changing cities and changing climate Insights from shared learning dialogues in Thailand and Vietnam Overview Mekong-Building Climate Resilient Asian Cities (M-BRACE) worked with city stakeholders in four medium-sized cities in Thailand and Vietnam to explore the intersection of two intimately-linked, defining trends: urbanization and climate change. The world’s population is reaching new heights, and for

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The Shared Learning Dialogue Building Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for Resilience Action

Climate Resilience in Concept and Practice: ISET Working Paper 1 The Shared Learning Dialogue Building Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for Resilience Action Overview Climate change represents a unique challenge as a global force with profoundly local consequences. Generating effective responses to climate change impacts requires understanding of emerging global scientific knowledge as well as the

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Catalyzing Urban Climate Resilience ACCCRN

Catalyzing Urban Climate Resilience Applying Resilience Concepts to Planning Practice in the ACCCRN Program Overview “Catalyzing Urban Climate Resilience” describes how ten cities within the Rockefeller Foundation supported Asian Cities Climate Change Resilient Network (ACCCRN) assess climate vulnerability and apply emerging concepts of urban resilience. The ACCCRN experience offers an innovative framework for iterative shared

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Flood data mapping and analysis for early warning and urban planning in Vietnam

Flood data mapping and analysis for early warning and urban planning in Vietnam Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance Solutions Brief The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance’s ‘Solutions’ series shares practical and replicable local knowledge through our work across the world on how to build resilience to climate hazards. Summary ISET-International (ISET) and the provincial DRM agency conducted

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Gender in Philippines Disaster and Climate Planning

The Program 2020 Geographic scope: Philippines Partners: Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, Zurich North America, DuPont, IFRC, Practical Action Nepal, Practical Action Peru, Practical Action Senegal, Practical Action Bangladesh, Mexican Red Cross, IIASA Funders: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Monitoring, Evaluation + Learning (MEL) Program Design + Implementation Resilience Tools + Frameworks Applied Research Technical

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