The project aimed to assess the impacts of climate change and human interventions on reservoir sedimentation, flood inundation, agricultural practices, and river and coastal erosion in the Vu Gia-Thu Bon and Cagayan River basins of Vietnam and the Philippines, respectively, to establish an integrated flood and sediment management schemes for sustainable development. Over the recent decades, dam construction and anthropogenic activities have had increasingly profound effects on sediment load, bathymetry, and hydrological processes. Understanding these impacts is critical for the foundation of sustainable hydrogeomorphology management. Hence, this project was designed with the ultimate goal of transferring the project results to the stakeholders and policy decision-makers to implement them into the national laws. This also involved organizing some training courses, seminars, and workshops to train the young researchers, stakeholders, policymakers, local communities and expand the collaborative network with other ASIAN countries and global change programs.
In regard to the proposed objectives, and activities planned, the project has collected all the required sets of data through various field visits and bathymetry surveys, and analysis has been performed to achieve the objectives. The results have been published in various high-impact factors international journals (See the list of publications for more details). Moreover, the project results, and research activities have been also shared, and discussed during the special APN/JASTIP session at the 2nd international conference on environmental sustainability and resource security (IC-ENSURES2022, during 08-09 March 2022), and during the special project closing symposium (1st international symposium on Integrated Flood and Sediment Management in River Basin for Sustainable Development (FSMaRT 2022), during 18-20 December 2022, Vietnam) by APN-Project researchers and collaborators from Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines side counterparts (See the Annex 1 for more details).
