Climate change and housing have a close link in Vietnam’s cities. The impact of
climate change is one of the biggest concerns for government and civil society. In
Central Vietnam, storms and floods are common and dangerous hazards. Housing
vulnerability is intensified by these hazards – but also by fragile physical and
socio-economic conditions. In addition, post-disaster housing reconstruction in
Central Vietnam is still mainly seen as a single recovery action, separate from the
development of local housing and achieving long-term housing resilience.
Using comparative case studies from Hue and Da Nang – two of Vietnam’s cities
most vulnerable to climate change – this research examines key issues of climateresilient
housing (CRH) in post-disaster housing reconstruction to highlight the
significant relationship between them, using a CRH framework developed from
the Institute of Social and Environmental Transition’s urban climate resilience
framework (ISET, 2012). The findings show that developing CRH in Vietnam
requires the integration of local (indigenous) and new (innovative) knowledge and
requires the greater involvement of local government, civil society organisations and
the private sector.