Establishment of Vu Gia – Thu Bon River Basin Organization
On August 21, 2017, in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province, the People’s Committee of Quang Nam Province and Da Nang City organized the...
Building Resilience through Community Engagement
Rapid urbanization coupled with the threats of climate change is perfectly exemplified in Central Vietnam and especially in the city of...
Break the Barriers to Better Respond to Climate Change
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) collaborated with the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam to organize a regional seminar on Achieving...
2017 Flooding in Peru: Identifying Effective Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Efforts Through
Above: Piura, Peru (Puedes leer este blog en español al final de la página) A sudden warming of waters off Peru’s coast this year, as...
How to Build Resilience When You Speak Different ‘Languages’
(Above: The city of Da Nang, the majority of which is surrounded by water. To the east there is the Han River, and to the North the Da...
Assessing the Efficiency of Storm-Resilient Housing in Building Household and Community Resilience
Earlier this month, the ISET team, in collaboration with the Hue University of Economics, conducted a rapid assessment survey to examine...
Takeaway Points from the Training on Storm-Resistant Housing Design and Construction in Da Nang
Above: Training session at community level in Da Nang city Da Nang is one of the cities that is most affected by climate change in...
How Two Cities are Collaborating to Reduce Flood Risk in Vietnam
Da Nang is the third largest city and one of the three largest ports in Vietnam, and the economic hub of the central region. Hoi An, 30...
New project in Vanuatu
Vanuatu ranks 4th in the Happy Planet Index and every year thousands of tourists visit the beaches and coral reefs. It is a tropical...
Technical Training on Housing Design and Construction in Typhoon-affected Areas of Da Nang city
Participants join in the discussion during the technical training. Photo credit: Anh Tran, ISET-Vietnam Within the project “Undertaking...
