Environmental Management and Policy-Making in Vietnam

Dear All,

I have found a valuable paper in environmental management and policy-making in Vietnam. This paper aims to describe how environmental management is being implemented and how the policy-making process has been made. Existing investment policies emphasise that environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources should be cornerstones of development in Vietnam. These policies should promote the economic transition, as well as environmental management for sustainable development.

With these policies in place, there is a need to identify the most important environmental issues, including problems to be tackled and measures to be taken. The problems are to find appropriate and effective preventive and treatment measures for pollution, loss of biodiversity, degradation of marine environment, and of environmental quality in urban, rural and industrial areas. To solve these problems, the Government has plans to implement a number of measures. They can be grouped into regulatory (development of institutional and legislative frameworks, capacity-building, strengthening international cooperation and implication of international treaties), economic (market-based instruments to be applied in parallel with "command-and-control" ones), and communicative (awareness raising, training and education, information management).

The paper can be reached at http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/env_dev/papers/pap03.html

Hung