thi-minh-ha.bui [at] uvsq.fr

I'm pursuing PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris Saclay, with the supervision of Jean-Paul Vanderlinden and Charlotte da Cunha. I am a part of the PREFER project research team, led by jean-paul Vanderlinden, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union.

The project seeks to understand how different communities around the world relate their experiences to the changes affecting their way of life and/or their territories. PREFER is developing this study with communities in Greenland, Vietnam and Colombia. In Vietnam, the project focuses on communities in Ben Tre province.  Within the framework of PREFER projects, my research addresses the communities in Vietnam, Ben Tre facing threats of multi-dimensional changes and experiences of environmental, climatic and socio-economic upheavals.

The project will be built with the participation of the inhabitants of the communes in Giong Trom, Ba Tri, Ben Tre. It will focus on the stories told by community members about the changes they have experienced in the territory and/or in their own lives, and which they wish to share with the project team.

I like seeing storytelling as the form through which people communicate their experiences and the changes they are experiencing in their daily lives. We believe that collecting these stories can be important because it makes visible the past and present life-sustaining efforts of different people and communities around the world, as well as sharing them with people from other parts of the world.

I have both Bachelor and Master degree in sociology, and the certificates on the short courses in climate change adaptation and rural management studies.

I am lecturer at the University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City. My past experiences have led me to work on knowledge, response and action issues to climate change and flooding in Ho Chi Minh city and Mekong Delta, Vietnam, which combines both quantitative and qualitative method to collect data.

My research interests include: a critical approach to adaptation and resilience, risk management and sustainable development.

Within CEARC, I actively participate in the changes and threats observatory, specifically at the strategic monitoring on Ben Tre, Vietnam at the Research Commission of the UVSQ.

Main publications

1. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2023. Vulnerability and Flood Risk Analysis for Urban Areas—A Case Study of Ho Chi Minh City (2023), https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-8726-7_20;  
2. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2023. Types of responses to urban flooding in Ho Chi Minh city (2023), Vietnam Journal of Sociology, No.2 - 2023
3. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2023. The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the family economic aspect - A case study in Ho Chi Minh City, (2023). Journal of Family and Gender Studies, No. 2, 2023.
4. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2023. Scenario-Based Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Modeling of Future Agricultural Land Conversion in Dong Thap, Vietnam (2022) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92365-5_31;
5. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2022. Vietnam tourism industry: impacts and adaptation to the Covid-19 pandemic (2022). Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference: Innovation and development of tourism after the Covid-19 pandemic. Thai Nguyen University Publishing House, 2022, pp. 91-105.
6. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, Võ Thiện Bửu, Trần Đình Lâm, 2022. The role of Vietnamese women in the new era - case study of Quy Nhon city - Binh Dinh province (2022). Dan Tri Publishing House.
7. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, 2022. Hawkers and the informal economy of Ho Chi Minh City: the multi-scale of risks from migration (2021) The Journal of Family and Gender Studies + Vol 16, No.1
8. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2021. People's assessment of flooding and flood response in Ho Chi Minh City. Journal of Sociology, No. 1, 2021.
9. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2021. Urban management in flood response: a case study of Ho Chi Minh City (2021). Social Sciences Publishing House.
10. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2020. Identifying "Trust" in coastal communities in the South Central region in responding to natural disasters (2020). Thu Dau Mot University Science Journal, Vol No.5, No.5(48)–2020., pp.40-49
11. Bùi Thị Minh Hà, 2020. Identifying social networks in coastal urban communities in the South Central region in response to natural disasters (2020). Journal of Regional Sustainable Development, Vol No.3, pp.135-146.
12. Bui Thi Minh Ha, Tran Thong Nhat, Dinh Cong San, Nguyen Kim Dan, Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, 2017. Methods of measuring and analyzing vulnerability and building flood risk maps. Science and Technology Publishing House, 2017. ISBN: 9786046709954.

​Last revision: September 2024