TY - CHAP A1 - Nguyen, Ngoc Anh ED - Born, Lukas T1 - Integration of Environmental Components and Urban Climate Management in Land-use Planning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T2 - Young research forum : research papers for future megacities on governance, water, planning, and mobility N2 - Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam and an emerging megacity of Southeast Asia, is now experiencing a high demand for land due to residential development, transportation, and economic growth. The rapid urbanisation and dense population growth in the past twenty years have significantly affected the city’s land use, and have had adverse effects on urban flooding, urban climate, and its vulnerability to climate change. Land-use planning, at the same time, is a key measure for adjusting and helping the city to adapt to the environmental consequences and climate change impacts through the integration of environmental components and urban climate management. The study included a literature review for the situation analysis, followed by in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the Ho Chi Minh City authorities to understand the challenges and potential for such integration. The results showed that planning authorities are facing challenges in incorporating environmental considerations due to a barrier of legislation, enforcement regime, and an absence of an integrated framework. The study also pointed out three relevant proposals that would support efforts, including environmental and climate issues in land-use planning: (1) a strong integrated framework regime for climate change strategies, with collaboration among authorities and planners with appropriate policies, management systems and norms; (2) the effective implementation of strategic environmental assessment for land-use planning; and (3) land-use zoning. While the framework regime and strategic environmental assessment require nationwide policy and enforcement as well as methodological tools, land-use zoning needs more careful management adjustment for acceptance and adoption at the city and local levels. Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-86859-279-5 SP - 115 EP - 128 PB - Jovis CY - Berlin ER -