Ranking and prioritising the coastal and marine protected areas of Vietnam

Abstract

Up to present, there has not been an official system of Vietnam coastal and marine protected areas. Ranking and prioritising proposed areas are needed for designing a coastal and marine protected areas plan in Vietnam from a purely systematic approach in the framework of the project ADB 5712-REG supported by Sida (Sweden). IUCN criteria were used to screen and to rank the areas proposed by BAP. MOSTE, MoFi, provincial governments and scientific institutions. Net scores assessed thorough scoring for positive and negative factors of 39 proposed areas allow to select 22 areas as the priorities in the plan.