Disentangling the concepts of global climate change, adaptation, and human mobility: a political-ecological exploration in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

• DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2028596
• Publication Date: 2022-01-31T20:27:46Z
• Authors: Mucahid Mustafa B...; Danny Marks; Leon T. Hauser
• Keywords: Political Ecology; Geopolitics; Vietnamese

The complex relationship between human mobility and global climate change remains contested. In this viewpoint, the themes of mobility, adaptation are explored from a political ecology perspective. A framework in relation to is applied context Vietnam's Mekong Delta (MKD). Vietnamese government, popular media academic studies often present MKD dystopian ways which there sometimes no more place for poor landless farmers as direct result change. 2019 2020, faced one its most severe droughts recent history largely tied upstream hydropower development. viewpoint article, we contend that future can longer establish causal especially light these events. underlying drivers well broader context, shaped by economy, market structures forces, power relations, government policy, geopolitics, transboundary water issues deserve prominent role analysis patterns beyond.