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EROSEAS Panel Announcement

Intersecting Climate Change and Development in Viet Nam: Negotiable Curve or Collision Course?
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This panel will examine the dynamics between climate change and the contemporary Vietnamese economic model of industrialisation and global integration. Papers should ask on the one hand how is climate change threatening or providing opportunities to that economic model and, on the other hand, whether the model mitigates or amplifies the impact of climate change – not in terms of green house gases contribution, but by affecting the resilience of the Vietnamese society to structural change.
To analyse that dynamic, papers in this panel will discuss the triangular relationship between climate change potential impacts, the strategic response to that potential, and the Vietnamese economic model. The panel will therefore discuss whether that current strategic response addresses potential impacts of climate change, or seeks instead to perpetuate an economic development model that itself worsens those eventual impacts.

Panel Convenor: François Fortier
Assistant professor
School of International Development and Global Studies
University of Ottawa
Please submit paper proposals, in the form of 300-word abstracts, to the above convener at ffortier@uottawa before 31 January 2010.