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Relocation as an adaptation strategy to environmental stess

18 Nov 2015

The dependency on very labour migration that is often triggered by push factors specific agricultural products (rice, fish and fruits) and the in the area of origin, as well as specific pull factors in the relatively weak development of industries and services area of destination, environmentally induced migration in much of the Mekong River Delta imply that the area tends to be driven only by pus [...] These projects are designed and in households) sometimes migrate back and forth and implemented by the Government of Viet Nam, within the corridor between the delta and Ho Chi Minh sometimes in cooperation with organizations, such as City in particular. [...] Relocation is not new within the Vietnamese context, with many relocations Spontaneous migration from the Mekong River Delta taking place between various provinces and between face specific constraints due to the Vietnamese system the north and the south over the last decades (UN Viet of registering inhabitants, the so-called ho khau system, Nam, 2014). [...] In this sense, the Government and the under which access to services such as health care and people of Viet Nam have already become more used to education is connected to the household book or “red government-assisted relocation that may be the case in book”. [...] In the cases examined in Viet This shows that a better understanding of migration Nam, income preservation was particularly important as an adaptation strategy to environmental stress will due to the loan system associated with the relocation also lead to a better understanding of the formation of projects; a decrease of income would in fact lead to a migration corridors to Ho Chi Minh City.
land settlement climatic changes

Authors

Entzinger, H. B, Scholten, Peter

Pages
8
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario