CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION
7.2. Research Findings
7.2.4 Proposing policy implications for the case study
7.2.4.1 What and how policy implications can be proposed for the case study?
Eight adaptive strategies and 12 specific actions are suggested derived from the outputs of the research, especially the results of the SVI calculation. While the strategies cover a wide range of general issues, the actions focus on solving specific problems associated with climate change adaptation in the case study. All proposed strategies and actions meet scientific and practical requirements. Thus, these proposals are appropriate and practical, and can be applied in order to improve the adaptation of the Quy Nhon city to climate change issues, and assist other areas with similar characteristics (see Section 5.4).
b. How can policy implications be proposed for the case study?
Outputs of the SVI calculation confirm that an SVI is an appropriate tool to evaluate and compare social vulnerabilities of the different studied areas. Moreover, using the local,
primary data-driven approach, indices of SVI components can be used to analyse individual neighbourhood differences in exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. As a result, it is possible to speculate that this approach may support decision-making in responding to climate change. Specifically, the ranking of studied areas by their SVI and other indices can be a useful basis for selecting priority issues and locations for strategies and actions designed to address specific aspects of social vulnerability. The differences in scores of factors and sub- components reveal which aspects should be focused on.
More interestingly, some policy implications can be offered not only by depending on the
values of the SVI, but also from the process of developing the SVI, such as the outputs of
steps of interviews, focus group discussions, and household questionnaire surveys. In other words, each step of developing the SVI can be the basis for policy-making. The outputs of this study demonstrate this issue. In reality, some proposed adaptive strategies, such as “enhancing community awareness” and “fully collecting community perspectives”, are offered based on the outcomes of surveys. The above discussion confirms again an interesting opinion of Schmidtlein et al. (2008) that the SVI approach may be best viewed as an algorithm for quantifying social vulnerability, rather than as a simple numerical index.
7.3 Research Contributions
The research contributes to the growing body of research on vulnerability to climate change and practical processes of policy-making on climate change in the case study location.
This study provides a general picture of research on quantifying social vulnerability, which is the basis for developing the proposed SVI. A new method to aggregate and account for associative relationships among SVI components is a main contribution of this research in the growing academic field of climate vulnerability assessment. This mechanism not only reflects causal relationships among SVI components which are not clarified in existing studies, but also presents a simple way to calculate an SVI.
A series of qualitative and quantitative methods used in this research to establish and calculate an SVI can be examined as practical tests of methodologies in building an SVI, and may be expected to have wider applications. Moreover, the study operationalizes the idea of the methods for involving local community perspectives in developing an SVI.
The process of establishing and calculating an SVI in this study engaged direct participation with local experts, decision-makers and residents in the case study. Consequently, the
research contributes to improved knowledge and experience of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change for local stakeholders.
The study proposes a policy framework for specific adaptive strategies and actions for Quy Nhon city to respond to climate change. This is a good source for local academic experts and decision-makers in policy-making around climate change adaptation. Moreover, the research also suggests other applications of an SVI which may be valuable to the case study and other areas in Vietnam.
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