LAAuthors: Pham, Hong Nga; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2003)
This study is to propose relevant improvements for existing monitoring strategy ofThua ThienHue coastal zone in Vietnam. Thua Thien-Hue coastal zone, and its Tam Giang-Cau Hai lagoon in particular, is known as the largest brackish water system in South East Asia. It has highly important environmental and economic roles. The lagoon provides valuable habitat of diverse and sensitive aquatic ecosystem. Moreover, because of its favourite geographic locations and natural conditions, this coastal zone has to support a range of economic activities, such as fisheries and aquaculture, tourism along with some agriculture, industry and shipping, most of which are resource-based activities. On the other hand, Tam Giang-Cau Hai lagoon is subject to far complex and unstable hydrodynamic and morph... 
