On July 17th,
2014 Department of Natural Resources & Environment BR-VT Province in
collaboration with Prof.Rajib Shaw (Kyoto University-Japan) organized a seminar
on “Land Management and coastal environment in the context of climate change”.
Participants include more than 50 representatives from relevant departments and
units related to environment issues in BR-VT. Mr.Pham Van Nghiep – Deputy
Director of BR-VT Department of Natural Resources & Environment declared opening
the conference.
Main contents are experiences
in land management and coastal environment in current context around the world and
in BR-VT: experiences in environment management in the context of climate
change by Prof. Rajib Shaw; issues of provincial land use planning in the
context of climate change by Mr.Tran Thuong Tho (Deputy Director of Office for
Land Use Right Registration, Baria City); issues on land change due to
development and management of floodplains by Ms.Michiko Banba (Kyoto University
- Japan); experiences on erosion management based on community and automatic
salty observation environment by Mr.Nguyen Ngoc Huy (ISET-International,
Vietnam). At the seminar, Mr.Mai Thanh Quang - Director of BR-VT Department of
Science & Technology also expressed opinions on environment problems in provincial
estuaries, coastal areas in the context of being strongly impacted by climate
change and desire to cooperate with Japanese experts to solve such problems.