Water and Its Many Issues - Methods and Cross-cutting Analysis - Regional Social Sciences Summer University "Tam Dao Summer School Week" (Vietnam)

The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the University of Nantes, the École française d’Extrême-Orient (ÉFEO) and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) have decided to give their support to the Regional Social Sciences Summer University, referred to as “Tam Đảo Days”, in the framework of the 2010-2013 partnership agreement. This partnership has the objectives of developing a multi-disciplinary training of excellence, creating a platform for debate, and attracting a wide academic and non-academic audience from across Southeast Asia. This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 13th to 21th July 2012 in Hà Nội and in the Tam Đảo Hill station on the topic of “Water and its Many Issues”. Four main areas of reflection are prioritised in the framework of the thematic workshops: sea, risks and governance; urban growth, social needs and water and sanitation service others; survey training in the framework of social and economic water management and a practical approach to agent-based modelling.