TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hagedoorn, Liselotte
A1  - Bubeck, Philip
A1  - Hudson, Paul
A1  - Brander, Luke
A1  - Pham Thi Dieu, My
A1  - Lasage, Ralph
T1  - Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam
JF  - World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development
N2  - Developing countries are increasingly impacted by floods, especially in Asia. Traditional flood risk man-agement, using structural measures such as levees, can have negative impacts on the livelihoods of social groups that are more vulnerable. Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) provides a complementary approach that is potentially more inclusive of groups that are commonly described as more vulnerable, such as the poor and women. However, there is a lack of disaggregated and quantitative information on the potential of EbA to support vulnerable groups of society. This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the differ-ences in vulnerability to flooding as well as preferences for EbA benefits across income groups and gen -der. We use data collected through a survey of households in urban and rural Central Vietnam which included a discrete choice experiment on preferences for ecosystem services. A total of 1,010 households was surveyed during 2017 through a random sampling approach. Preferences are measured in monetary and non-monetary terms to avoid issues that may arise from financial constraints faced by respondents and especially the more vulnerable groups. Our results reveal that lower income households and women are overall more vulnerable than their counterparts and have stronger preferences for the majority of the EbA benefits, including flood protection, seafood abundance, tourism, and recreation suitability. These findings strongly indicate that EbA is indeed a promising tool to support groups of society that are espe-cially vulnerable to floods. These results provide crucial insights for future implementation of EbA pro-jects and for the integration of EbA with goals targeted at complying with the Sendai Framework and Sustainable Development Goals. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
KW  - Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA)
KW  - Vulnerability
KW  - Gender equality
KW  - Poverty alleviation
KW  - Discrete choice experiment
KW  - Payment vehicle
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105650
SN  - 0305-750X
VL  - 148
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -