Understanding the sustainability and resilience of

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• Understanding the sustainability and
  resilience of
• Huong Phong commune
• A case study in Van Quat Dong village

Le Thi Hong Phuong
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General information
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• - Huong Phong commune is a horizontal coastal
  commune, with 12 km far from Hue city in the
  West-north.
• - It is boundaried by Hai Duong commune in the
  north, Thuan An town in the East, Quang Thanh
  commune in the west, Huong Vinh commune in the
  south.
• - The location of Huong Phong is especial. It
  has two sides border with Huong and Bo river and
  one side border with lagoon. Moreover, it is at
  the foot of these rivers
• - Huong Phong has 6 villages of which we focus
  on the lagoon village _ Van Quat Dong has the
  population of 2350 with 261,4 ha water surface
  area

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Environmental problem

• We examine the environmental problem at three
  different zones
• Fishing zone
• Aquaculture zone
• Common pools

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Fishing zone environmental pollution
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• Aquaculture zone environmental pollution

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Common pools environmental pollution
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Garbage in common pools
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Waste in pools
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Waste from resident area
Garbage from resident area
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• In order to analyze the sustainable context of
  Van Quat Dong through the untilization and
  exploitation lagoon resource, we used
• three principle of sustainable development
• Environmental development
• Social development
• Economic development

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Van Quat Dong village situation of sustainability

• - Environmental dimension
• Lagoon environmental pollution
• The fish catch decline increasingly
• The size of fish, crab, shrimp is smaller and
  smaller
• The loss of biodiversity due to over
  exploitation using small mesh net and electric
  gear and aquacultural development
• Aquacultural productivity decline even failure

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The change of fishing gear, fish catch and
biodiversity
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- Social development dimension

• Over population
• Low education
• Migrating to city, industrial zone
• Social evils drunk, gambling, family violence,
  ...
• Many household fall in poverty and debt

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- Economic development

• Income from fishing and aquacultural activities
  have gone down increasingly

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Model of sustainability in 2008
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Model of sustainability from 1988 to 2003
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Model of sustainability from 1975 to 1988
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• The sustainability situation for the village in
  term of a resilience perspective

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Type of disturbance at Van Quat Dong village
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Resilience capacity over time at Van Quat Dong
village
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Storaging food and shelt in flooded season
1m
Outside of the house
inside of the house
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Equiping small boat for flooded season
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A poor household no resilience capacity