Ms Huong Vu is a researcher at the VNU Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (VNU-CRES), Vietnam National University, Hanoi, working on ecosystem services, environmental policy and the social side of climate adaptation. Her recent research includes a USAID-funded study of how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the use of wildlife, medicinal plants and urban green space in Vietnam, and the Vietnam component of a US National Science Foundation-funded three-country study of ecosystem services in national environmental policy. She also co-developed a GIZ manual on ecosystem service valuation for provincial planners.