Risk Assessment and Management Strategy of Coastal Erosion in the Red River Delta, Vietnam

作者：Thi Hong Hanh Nguyen, Guanxun Wang, Wenyue Chen, Jing Yu, Ruonan Liu, Xu Huang, Xun Jiang, Van Vuong Bui, Dinh Nam Le, Van Phach Phung · 发表于：Land · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.3390/land14061247 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Climate change poses substantial threats to natural ecosystems and human livelihoods, particularly in coastal regions, by intensifying coastal erosion. This process leads to land loss, infrastructure damage, and habitat destruction while amplifying challenges such as sea-level rise, flooding, desertification, and salinization. In Vietnam’s Red River Delta (RRD), the dynamic interplay between erosion and accretion presents a highly complex challenge, necessitating effective risk assessment and management to safeguard communities and resources. Using the principles of natural disaster risk assessment and comprehensive analysis, this study develops a coastal erosion risk assessment framework incorporating hazard, exposure, and vulnerability dimensions. The framework integrates 17 indicators, including human activities, socioeconomic factors, shoreline type, and vegetation cover, with indicator weights determined through expert evaluation and the analytic hierarchy process. The application of this framework reveals that coastal erosion risk in the RRD is relatively high, with greater risk concentrated in the central and northern segments of the coastline compared to the flanking areas. This framework offers valuable insights for coastal erosion prevention, mitigation strategies, and the optimization of coastal spatial planning. The application of coastal erosion risk assessment methods provides a relatively complete foundation for developing comprehensive prevention and adaptatio...