Background

6.1 BACKGROUND

Highlands

Midlands

Delta

QUANG NAM

NAM TRA MY Studies have shown that the floods came and left behind many mental and health problems for people of different ages (Stanke, 2012). The livelihood, familiar surroundings, and properties were destroyed (Tran, 2015), and the pain was left in individuals’ memories. In addition, the survivors may have to behold their beloved being killed, incapacitated, both physically and emotionally. All of these physical, cultural and psychological damages come quickly and uncontrollably after the disasters. However, the recovery journey of emotion is not typically easy to achieve (American Red Cross 2012, as quoted by Donovan 2013,5). This brings up challenges for affected individuals to be back in their lives and heal their mental health. Therefore, it is vital that rehabilitation and healing approaches should be integrated into space to control the mental health in the recovery process. Moreover, long-term strategies to promote the self-empowerment, cutural preservation and social connectivity should be taken into account to transform at-risk communities to disaster-resilient communities.

Natural catastrophes have grown in recent years in Quang Nam, which is one of Vietnam’s most vulnerable provinces to flooding, potentially as a result of the effects of global socioeconomic growth and climate change, inflicting increasingly significant detriment (Le Anh and Lan, 2013) Management gatherings on disasters were used to broadcast orders and information from local authority; it was less of a collaborativeprocedurein which assets ofcommunity might be enhanced to reduce the effects of natural catastrophes. To design and execute appropriate disaster management policies is a key aspect in fighting disasters.

In Quang Nam, there are three typologies: Mountainous Area, Midlands, and Delta. Disasters are more likely in delta and mountainous locations.

Poverty and difficult access to land certificates, as well as legality of title to their customary lands, continue to be major issues in the mountainous area (highlands), exacerbating their vulnerability in a variety of ways. Ethnic minorities in Quang Nam have higher than average poverty rates, and substantial population segments are sandwiched between Vietnamese and worldwide poverty rates, rendering them inevitably exposed to a variety of pressures, such as climatic changes ( Do Thi and Ole Bruun 2013)