STUDY ON ASESSMENT OF RESOURCES FOR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE OF SOCIAL - ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN THREE COMMUNES OF TIEN HAI DISTRICT, THAI BINH PROVINCE

Abstract

Resources or Assets or Capitals, are generally understood to be the aggregate of geographic location, natural resources, human resources, institutions, policies... can be exploited to serve for making developmental policies of a given territory. Resources are critical to build solutions in developmental plans, programs and projects in general, and action plans for disaster prevention as well as climate change response in particular. In reality, there are many ways of assessing resources, and often more attention to financial resources and physical/infrastructure resources. This paper presents the initial results of the Center for Eco-community Development, ECODE when applying and developing the Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI, Matric 5x5) to assess the development resources and climate - diaster resilience of social - ecological systems, which serves to develop local (district-level) action plans for adaptation to climate change in 3 communes of Tien Hai district, Thai Binh province. Many indicators are in line with new rural development indicators that are easily applied by the community, and hopefully this method will be replicated in other localities.