Rivers and deltas at The Tam Đảo Days 2017

Every year “The Tam Đảo Days” (JTD), an event which take the form of a summer university, provide training in social science analysis methodologies – geography, economics, statistics, socio-anthropology, history, etc. – to nearly a hundred participants from Southeast Asia (students, professors, researchers, civil servants, development agents).

This year, the JTD are being held from 7 to 15 July at the University of Can Tho (Can Tho, Vietnam). This year the programme is built around the theme “The rivers and deltas of Southeast Asia”. The synthesis of the two days of introductory plenary sessions will be drafted by Pascal Bourdeaux, a historian and associate professor at EPHE, and member of the IFGR Rivers Committee.

Switching between plenary sessions, workshops and field surveys, the JTD will take a cross-disciplinary approach to the stakes linked to the fluvial and deltaic nature of various Southeast Asian regions, by exploring in detail social science methodological approaches on the basis of practical cases.

A glimpse of the programme of the plenary sessions of Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July

P1- Advantages for development and vulnerability: the trajectories of four densely populated deltas in Asia, Sylvie Fanchette, geographer (IRD)

P2-Floods in the Mekong delta: reflections on the risks, hazards, stakes and vulnerabilities – indicators, Paul Fattal, geographer (University of Nantes)

P3- Impacts of climate change and rising sea level on the sustainable development of the Mekong delta (Vietnam), Nguyen Hieu Trung, (College of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Can Tho)

P4- The river and urban development in the Hanoi region, an ambivalent relationship, Emmanuel Cerise, architect, (Institute of Trades of the City of Hanoi)

P5 – Study on water governance in the framework of the major development project of Phuoc Hoa (Sai Gon-Dong Nai basin): methodological approaches and initial results, Linh Thi Phuong Huynh and Olivier Tessier (EFEO)

Synthesis of the two days: Pascal Bourdeaux (EPHE)

See the full programme of the Tam Đảo Days