Abstract
This article proposes a framework for reviewing to what extent laws and policies of a legal system support climate resilience. This article adopts the social-ecological system (SES) resilience theory and translates its core features into an operational framework which consists of four legal dimensions crucial for promoting climate resilience – adaptiveness of law, distributive justice, broad participation, and cross-scale interactions, and further identifies several indicators below each dimension. Then this article operationalizes the four legal dimensions via reviewing current Vietnamese climate adaptation laws and policies to assess to what extent they promote a climate-resilient Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). While various barriers can be found in the current legal framework and policies which impede climate resilience, the latest National Climate Change Adaptation Plan demonstrates great improvement in facilitating climate resilience in a just, participatory and coordinated manner.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1280-1304 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 1 Feb 2022 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors appreciate the research assistance provided by Luu Thi Tang in the early draft. The authors also appreciate the comments from colleagues at the Hub Water, Climate and Future Deltas at Utrecht University on the early draft.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords
- Resolution 120
- SES resilience
- Vietnamese climate adaptation law
- Vietnamese climate policy
- climate resilience
