Mangroves and education reduce disaster risk in Viet Nam: case study
Vietnam’s geography makes it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Every year its long coastline is hit by several typhoons that breach sea dykes and cause damage to houses, crops and aquaculture. The mangrove plantations act as a buffer zone, reducing the speed of sea water, wave strength and wind force. It means that these submerged, coastal forests reduce potentially devastating 1.5-metre waves into harmless, centimetre-high ripples.