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Intra-household impacts of climate hazards and autonomous adaptation in selected coastal areas of Vietnam.
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There is an acknowledged and documented differentiated impact of climate hazards among individual members of the household. The idea that one member may be a dominant decision maker and that increased household resiliency can be achieved if there is equitable decision making, especially between husband and wife, has never been entertained. This study aimed to (1) describe the role of men and women in the decision making on adaptation against various climate hazards in coastal communities; (2) measure the physical and monetary damages incurred by individual members of the household from climate-related hazards; (3) and describe and identify the various adaptation strategies employed by men and/or women for different climate-related hazards. A household survey covering 500 households was administered to answer the key research questions. Findings show that flooding strongly affects the coastal households in the four communes, especially during high tides when watergates are closed to prevent saltwater intrusion. Typhoons have affected all of the surveyed households in the four selected communes. Coastal erosion has been severe in Giao Long and Giao Thien communes since these two communes are located at the mouth of the Red River. Saltwater intrusion has caused serious problems to households. It has affected not only the water used for domestic use, but also water for freshwater aquaculture production. A total of 434 of the surveyed households, accounting for 86.8% of the sample, experienced damage or loss to house amounting to an average of VND 6.99 million per household. The impacts were mostly from damaged roofs, kitchen, and boundary walls. Besides, 83% of the total sample experienced losses in agricultural production amounting to an average of VND 5.18 million per household; 8.4% with losses in fishing income averaging VND 10.82 million per household; and more severely, 45.8% of the total sample suffered losses in aquaculture, averaging VND 24.2 million per household. Regarding the gender-differentiated impacts of extreme weather events, women are more affected by extreme weather events than men are in terms of income loss and leisure time. The average income loss for women is at VND 6.53 million, whereas the figure for men is only at VND 5.4 million. The daily decrease in the time spent by women on sleeping (0.77 hours) is higher than that of men (0.55 hours). In examining main household decision makers to cope with climate hazards, men dominate decision making in the event of typhoon/flooding. Women consider their roles important in taking preparation and implementing coping measures both at home and on the field. To cope with saltwater intrusion, men are perceived as the final decision makers by both men (WEI=1.53) and women (WEI=1.76). Storm surge also directly affects agricultural and aquaculture activities; as such, men are also most responsible for adaptation and coping measures addressing this hazard. In order to mitigate negative impacts of climate hazards on the selected coastal communities of Vietnam, there is a need to (1) build up an effective agricultural and fishery insurance service to provide more choices for the local households such that they can cope with and adapt to climate hazards; (2) improve local broadcasting systems to effectively disseminate information on adaptation and coping measures to the local households; and (3) design and implement capacity-building activities specific to men and women corresponding to their decision making roles.
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Dang, Nguyen Viet
Thu, Nguyen Thi Minh
Thiem, Nguyen Thi
Thuy, Pham Thi Thanh
Others
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2017-05
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Agricultural production , Aquaculture , Climate , Coastal areas , Floods
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Intra-household impacts of climate hazards.pdf
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