Tóm tắt
This paper presents the result of the study to measure the household’s vulnerability to climate change in Thua Thien Hue province by employing the econometric approach of vulnerability as expected poverty. This method is based on the assumption that a given shock will move household income below poverty line or become vulnerability. The household questionnaire survey, in-depth interview and focus group discussion were used in this study. The result reveals that households living in Thua Thien Hue province are vulnerable to climate change, particularly for households living in upland region and coastal area. Their vulnerability is highly sensitive to their daily income (poverty line). With a US$ poverty line, there are 12.6% of households are vulnerability to climate change. However, up to 52.3% of households are vulnerability when the poverty line increases to US$1.5. Based on the preliminary findings, climate change policies should focus on measures to improve households’ livelihoods as well as disaster impact prevention and mitigation measures at household level which will help to enhance households’ resilience to climate change.
Keywords: climate change, vulnerability, expected poverty, Thua Thien Hue.