Assessing effects of climate change on coastal communities
Vietnam and Scotland illustrate the complexity and heterogeneity in how climate change may affect coastal societies – Vietnam has called for international support in capacity-building for adaptation, whereas in Scotland mitigation via transition to a low-carbon society is altering socio-economic structures.
This project used these extremes to assess potential for a common methodology for understanding climate impacts on coastal communities, connecting institutions working at these polar opposites – Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi.
This pump-priming project facilitated bilateral exchange – RGU researchers combining intensive methods training for VASS early-career scholars with involvement in current research on the Vietnamese coast, and VASS scholars participating in researching UK policy and community engagement by return visit.
- Dr Leslie Mabon
- Dr Natascha Mueller-Hirth
- Dr Chris Yuill