IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN THE MEKONG DELTA

Abstract

Climate change has been seriously affecting all aspects of residential life in the
Mekong Delta. Although localities have implemented many solutions, they are
mainly for situational resolution and lack of synchronization. In order to minimize the
impact of climate change on production and residential life, it is necessary to have
more general solutions, promoting advantages on the basis of mobilizing all
resources, mechanisms to implement changing development orientation in
accordance with the viewpoint “respecting and taking advantage of nature”, focusing
on improving quality of human resource to effectively convert quality of livelihood
and professions for income stability, enhancement of living standards.