Adapting to climate change in the fishery industry case study: Phuoc Hai and Phuoc Tinh fishing villages of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province, Vietnam

In order to adapt with those changes, people have actively seeked and opted for different measures which are applicable for their socioeconomic condition. Using descriptive statistics to analyze both primary and secondary data of two study areas, this paper discuss some solutions the communities have used to adapt to climate change. Then the authors propose some recommendations to assist the people in selecting solutions for climate change adaptation.
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Adapting to climate change in the fishery industry case study: Phuoc Hai and Phuoc Tinh fishing villages of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province, VietnamTẠP CHÍ PHÁT TRIỂN KHOA HỌC & CÔNG NGHỆ: 57CHUYÊN SAN KHOA HỌC XÃ HỘI VÀ NHÂN VĂN, TẬP 2, SỐ 2, 2018  Adapting to climate change in the fishery industry case study: Phuoc Hai and Phuoc Tinh fishing villages of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province, Vietnam Tran Thi Doan Trinh, Le Hai Nguyen Abstract—Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province is part of and fishery production in those regions arethe South Eastern key economic zone. This province heavily dependent on the weather and wateris the gate to the Southeast Asia Sea of the South source. Ba Ria - Vung Tau is a coastal province inEastern region. Ba Ria – Vung Tau has a coastal line the Southeast of Vietnam. The long coastline hasof 350 kilometers and the estimated area of thecontinental shelf of 100,000 square kilometers. These become the advantage that facilitates the provincegeographical conditions have helped developed to develop tourism, fishing and other marinefishery and seafood processing industry. In the late economic sectors. However, this geographicten years, many changes in climate and weather condition also makes Ba Ria - Vung Tau,condition has had strong impact on the local life of especially the coastal communities and marinethose who live in the coastal area and mostly live on dependent occupations, a vulnerable place tofishery. In order to adapt with those changes, peoplehave actively seeked and opted for different climate change impacts. The data from themeasures which are applicable for their socio- Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology in theeconomic condition. Using descriptive statistics to South showed that the province has beenanalyze both primary and secondary data of two experiencing different climate change effects suchstudy areas, this paper discuss some solutions the as average temperature rising, precitipationcommunities have used to adapt to climate change. decreasing, rapid coastal erosion, and fresh waterThen the authors propose some recommendations toassist the people in selecting solutions for climate shortage [2, 3]. In order to deal with thosechange adaptation. impacts, the people have imposed different responses to lessen the consequences. This paper Keywords—fishery industry, climate change, discusses some solutions the communities haveadaptation used to adapt to climate change. Then the authors5 propose some recommendations to assist the people in selecting solutions for climate change 1. INTRODUCTION adaptation.A ccording to World Bank [1], Vietnam has been warned to be one of the five countries in theworld which is most affected by climate change. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW In order to response to the impacts of climateCoastal lowlands in southern Vietnam are change, society often focuses on two mainconsidered more vulnerable to climate change options, mitigation and adaptation [4]. On thebecause of their relatively high concentration of scale of households, in fishery industry, peopledensely populated areas. Furthermore, agricultural can only choose to adapt to climate change due to their limited resources. Adaptation is defined by Received: 10-11-2017, Accepted: 21-12-2017; Published: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change30-6-2018 (IPCC) as “Initiatives and measures to reduce the Tran Thi Doan Trinh, Le Hai Nguyen Department ofGeography, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho vulnerability of natural and human systemsChi Minh City against actual or expected climate change effects” Email: trinh.trandoan@gmail.com, [4]. Wongbusarakum and Loper [5] argued that Email: hainguyen.le@gmail.com successful adaptation strategies would reduce 5 vulnerability by increasing adaptive capacity and58 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL: SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES, VOL 2, ISSUE 2, 2018decreasing exposure and sensitivity. There are Planned adaptation, on the other hand, isvarious ways to categorize adaptation depend on responsive to potential risks from climate change.different concerned actors. One common Planned adaptation often results in investing moreclassific ...