GCRF_NF292: Social and environmental impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnamese provinces bordering China and Laos following border closure

GCRF_NF292：边境关闭后，Covid-19 大流行对与中国和老挝接壤的越南省份的社会和环境影响

• 批准号: EP/V043218/1
• 负责人: Fabrice Renaud
• 金额: $ 36.64万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV043218%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF_NF292; Social; environmental; impacts; Covid

Northern provinces in Vietnam that border China and Laos have been severely affected economically by the current Covid-19 pandemic. These provinces have high populations of ethnic minority groups such as the Tay, Nung, Hmong and Thai who rely in part on cross border migration to sustain their families' livelihoods. However, the Covid-19 crisis has led to the closure of international borders and migrant workers have been forced to return home. With this, major sources of income were foregone and because loss of employment in a foreign country is not recognized by Vietnamese social protection mechanisms in the context of this crisis, entire communities have had to develop their own coping mechanisms. For example, some communities have increasingly started to rely on their surrounding natural environment, including freshwater resources and forest products (both timber and non-timber products). It is not clear how effective these and other coping measures are, nor what the long term consequences on natural resources will be. As there are many uncertainties regarding the evolution of the pandemic and the potential reopening of borders, we aim to investigate how the current crisis has shaped the relationship between vulnerable communities and their natural environment by combining different scientific approaches. Our research will achieve impact locally, by providing scientific evidence to local and national policy-makers as to the situation of vulnerable communities and of their environment, as well as developing future scenarios of this situation under various assumptions of the evolution of the pandemic and potential cross border movement. We are partnering with local authorities and aim to provide scientifically-grounded advice on amending existing policies so that ethnic minority-dominated regions can receive the appropriate support to ensure we are "leaving no-one behind", the stated aim of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

越南北部的省份中国和老挝边境受到当前的19日大流行的经济影响。这些省的人口众多少数族裔群体，例如Tay，Nung，Hmong和Thai，部分依靠跨境移民来维持其家人的生计。然而，共同-19危机导致了国际边界的关闭，移民工人被迫返回家乡。这样，主要的收入来源是已禁止的，并且由于在这一危机的背景下，越南社会保护机制没有得到越南社会保护机制的认可，因此整个社区不得不发展自己的应对机制。例如，一些社区越来越开始依靠周围的自然环境，包括淡水资源和森林产品（木材和非木材产品）。尚不清楚这些和其他应对措施的有效性，以及对自然资源的长期后果。由于关于大流行的演变和边界的潜在重新开放存在许多不确定性，因此我们旨在调查当前危机如何通过结合不同的科学方法来塑造脆弱社区及其自然环境之间的关系。我们的研究将通过向地方和国家决策者提供有关弱势社区及其环境状况的科学证据，以及在大流行和潜在跨境运动的各种假设下发展这种情况的未来情况。我们正在与地方当局合作，并旨在为修改现有政策提供科学基础的建议，以便以少数民族为主导的地区可以得到适当的支持，以确保我们“无人留下来”，联合国可持续发展目标的目标。