New contributions and the doctoral thesis of the PhD student Nguyen Van Huy

31/03/2020 15:47

Research Topic: Promoting the natural capital for the social - economic development in the Red River Delta

Major: Development Economics

PhD Candidate: Nguyen Van Huy

Supervisors: - Assoc. Prof, Dr. Nguyen Danh Son

- Dr. Ta Dinh Thi

School: Development Strategy Institute

1. Academic and theoretical Contribution

The Thesis has contributed to supplementing a research on promoting the natural capital for the regional – economic development.

- Shedding the light on the concept of natural capital and promoting the natural capital for the regional – economic development.

- Development of effect factors model on promotion of the natural capital for the regional social – economic development.

- Development of index on evaluating efficiency and sustainability of promoting the natural capital for the regional – economic development.

2. New findings

- Based on collected information and data on natural resources, natural capital, the Thesis has focused on analysis and pointing out the achieved outcomes and limitations in promoting the natural capital for social – economic development.

- As result of comprehensively reviewing existing studies, conducted survey and current state of promoting the natural capital for social – economic development in the Red River Delta, an effect factors model has been developed for the Thesis's research. The analysis's result has shown that there are 09 effect factors impacting on the promotion of natural capital for social – economic development in the region, namely: awareness, legislative institution, management capacity; human resources for promoting natural capital; social – economic development; production structure; technology development level; distribution of the natural capital and scale of natural capital. The assessment also indicated that technology development is the most impact factor; the following is the human resources for promotion of the natural capital and lowest one is the social – economic development.

- On the basis of current state analysis, index-based evaluation's result and effect factor model's outcomes, in addition to analysis of current and coming time's context in the Red River Delta, the Thesis has pointed out the orientations, viewpoints and recommended 06 solution groups, consisting of: (1) Increased awareness on the promotion of natural capital for the regional social – economic development; (2) Improved legislation, policy and regulations on effective use of natural capital; (3) Natural capital valuation and planning in accordance with the national and regional social – economic planning; (4) Increased application of economic instruments; (5) Conservation, restoration and reduce the negative impacts on natural capital; and (6) Strengthened education and training on natural resources' valuation.