Coastal Hazards
Hazard In the country of Vietnam every year waves have been gradually destryoing 3-4 meters of land. Not only that but due to this every year at least 80-90 houses get washed away. The reason as to why the country is experiencing such high erosion rates is because of the increase on urbanization, economic growth, as well as climate change. Even with such risks happening in the coast of Vietnam that is where economic sectors are hosted such as tourism, industry, and aquaculture which work as a way to help the socioeconomic development in the country. It has been told that more than 50% of eroded areas in the country are more than 1km in length and 10.6% of the coast has gone 200m or more inland which just shows how bad it is in the central coastline excluding the north/south parts. Another major factor for such a thing happening in Vietnam is due to the tropical cyclones that are 60% of storms that affect Vietnam's marine zone. As for human factors that affect the erosion happening ...