The Impact

The project works towards mitigating the impacts of climate change on the diverse rural and indigenous communities which inhabit one of Vietnam’s most important river catchments. It will do this by:

• Facilitating youth in the area to research issues that impact directly upon them and feel confident participating in policy discussions surrounding prevention and mitigation strategies to climate change;
• Recording and developing indigenous, historical knowledge and understanding on the impacts, and responses to, climate change;
• Educating the public and policy makers on the threats and environmental challenges facing global populations from large-scale human interference of deltas and;
• Ensuring that the diverse rural and indigenous communities of the Red River Catchment have access to the diverse knowledges/practices that can help mitigate and or assist adaption to a changing landscape resulting from climate change.

Outcomes

The outputs of the project are still ongoing, so stay tuned as we continue to publish papers, produce outreach and share the amazing work of the youth. Several can already be found below:

​Stories

Each community member, in each province, has a climate story to tell. Youth are currently collecting these stories, and will be drawing on a range of creative techniques to share these with wider audiences. Photographs, stories and other outputs will be shared in a travelling exhibition.

English

Vietnamese

​Papers

2020-Vision: understanding climate (in)action through the emotional lens of loss.
Lisa Jones, Florence Halstead, Katie J. Parsons, Hue Le, Ly Thi Ha Bui, Christopher R. Hackney and Daniel R. Parsons
Journal of the British Academy 2021

Paper

River of Hope animation

Follow Sa, our storytelling kingfisher who takes you for a ride along the Red River to tell you all about the project and what the youth have been working on.

Video

Puppetry performance

In collaboration with in country partners and the project youth, we are creating an innovative water/dry puppetry performance that tells the collective stories of all three provinces. Drawing upon each localities traditional story telling methods, this performance will be presented to local stakeholders, and recorded for wider engagement.

Coming soon...

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Newsletters

Find our newsletters, written in both English and Vietnamese below:

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