doi: 10.3850/S179392402012001056

Impacts of Climate Related Disasters on Fisheries in Danang, Vietnam

Kieu Thi Kinh^a, Huy Nguyen^b and Rajib Shaw^c International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. ^akieukinh@gmail.com ^bhuykyoto@gmail.com ^cshaw@global.mbox.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp

ABSTRACT

With a long coastline, fisheries are considered as the leading edge sector of economies of central region of Vietnam in general and Danang city in special. However climate variability regarding to extreme weather events typhoons, floods, for instance, has led to severe impacts on the assets and lives of local inhabitants, particularly fishing communities. According to the questionnaire survey results, 94 percent of fishermen claimed that climate change had adverse effects on their lives and 88 percent of them realized that the intensity and frequency of typhoons strongly increased over the last 10 years. Yet coping ability of fishermen remains limited partly due to inappropriate risk communication. Hence building a risk communication strategy for fishermen is an utmost issue to assure that they are able to protect themselves and have good preparedness in case of disasters and other emergencies.

Keywords: Climate change, Disasters, Typhoons, Fishermen, Risk communication.

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