Land Use Dynamics, Climate Change, and Food Security in Vietnam: A Global-to-local Modeling Approach

Martine Rutten, Michiel Van Dijk (), Wilbert van Rooij and Henk Hilderink

World Development, 2014, vol. 59, issue C, 29-46

Abstract: We present an innovative global-to-local modeling approach to analyze impacts of uncertain and complex futures on Vietnam’s economy via changes in land use patterns. Socio-economic changes are shown to have major implications for the Vietnamese landscape, including natural forest losses with negative consequences for biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, and losses of paddy rice and other agricultural lands in the Red River Delta and the Mekong River delta. Climate-related flood risks in these areas further threaten the population, economic assets, and food security. The scenarios reveal the importance of investments in agriculture, land markets, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Keywords: Food security; land use change; climate change; Asia; Vietnam; global-to-local modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.020

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