BALANCING CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS LIMESTONE THROUGH POLICY DIALOGUE, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT, AND REGIONAL PLANNING IN THE BAC KAN AND TUYEN QUANG PROVINCES, VIETNAM

Environmental science and technology

Through a long history of shifting cultivation and commercial logging, the natural habitats of the northern limestone mountain of Vietnam have become heavily fragmented. The greatest threat to the corridor's already highly endangered biodiversity comes from poorly planned development projects, including roads, dams, quarries, and mines, and government policies and programs that are poorly adapted to the region's environmental and cultural conditions. The “Balancing Conservation and Development in the Northern Highlands Limestone through Policy Dialogue, Capacity Development, and Regional Planning in the Bac Kan and Tuyen Quang Provinces” supported provinces to address these threats by working with relevant stakeholders to develop and share the Geographic database, compile information on development plans and projects with the potential significantly impact the corridor's biodiversity. to analyze these plans and project to propose least-cost options that will achieve provincial development objectives at lower environmental costs. This study designed and advocated development plans that will balance conservation and economic growth across the northern limestone mountain, and strengthen both the supply and demand for strategic environmental assessments.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.