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2023
Saving the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta - People's attitudes, opinions and willingness to help
Saving the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta - People's attitudes, opinions and willingness to help
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The unique nature and environment of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta as well as its agricultural production and its traditional lifestyle are endangered by a rising sea level and increasing salinization of the ground and surface water. This paper aims at the assessment of Vietnamese people's information on and attitudes towards these problems as well as their respective convictions and beliefs. Imbedded in an online survey with 2000 completed interviews we also conducted a Contingent Valuation study with which we want to assess people's willingness to contribute personally and financially to saving the Mekong Delta as an indication of the benefits they would expect from such a project. We interviewed three different groups of respondents, one of which lives directly in the Mekong Delta, a second lives outside the Delta, but close to it, that is in Ho Chi Minh City, and the third group lives far away from the Delta in Hanoi. With these three subsamples of respondents we wanted to capture not only the use benefits but also the nonuse benefits accruing from such a project. In the course of the interviews, we found that the Mekong Delta is of great interest and importance to all interviewees, no matter in which part of Vietnam they live. They were mostly well informed on the problems there and had strong opinions on the causes of these problems as well as on suitable strategies to fight them. In our Contingent Valuation study, we assessed the willingness of people at the different study sites to contribute financially to a hypothetical project for the preservation of the Mekong Delta and the socio‐economic, attitudinal and psychological determinants of this willingness. Besides these empirical findings, we also obtained valuable insights regarding various methodological aspects of Contingent Valuation studies.
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Journal of agronomy and crop science, 210 (2023), 1, e12680.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12680
ISSN: 1439-037X
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@article{Ahlheim2023,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16131},
doi = {10.1111/jac.12680},
author = {Ahlheim, Michael and Vuong, Duy Thanh},
title = {Saving the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta - People's attitudes, opinions and willingness to help},
journal = {Journal of agronomy and crop science},
year = {2023},
volume = {210},
number = {1},
}