Road Infrastructure and Climate Change in Vietnam
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Chinowsky-2015-Road Infrastructure.pdf
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Author(s)
Chinowsky, Paul
Schweikert, Amy
Strzepek, Niko
Strzepek, Kenneth Marc
Date Issued
May 2015
Journal
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Citation
Chinowsky, Paul, Amy Schweikert, Niko Strzepek, and Kenneth Strzepek. “Road Infrastructure and Climate Change in Vietnam.” Sustainability 7, no. 5 (May 2015): 5452–5470.
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Abstract
Climate change is a potential threat to Vietnam’s development as current and future infrastructure will be vulnerable to climate change impacts. This paper focuses on the physical asset of road infrastructure in Vietnam by evaluating the potential impact of changes from stressors, including: sea level rise, precipitation, temperature and flooding. Across 56 climate scenarios, the mean additional cost of maintaining the same road network through 2050 amount to US$10.5 billion. The potential scale of these impacts establishes climate change adaptation as an important component of planning and policy in the current and near future.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Global Change Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change
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https://doi.org/10.3390/su7055452
