30 October 2010, 8:00-17:00Conference Hall GS Le Van Thiem 19 Lê Thánh Tông, Hà Noi

INVITATIONto the Expert Workshop:

Environmental and land use planning in Hanoi as a con-tribution to sustainable urban development

AbstractVietnam’s Capital Hanoi is in changing rapidly. The development is characterised by rapid and massive building activities all over the city. In 2008 alone, 200 large building projects were started at the same time, most of which served to create large new living quarters or satellite towns. The rates of usage and conversion of open space into building area are extremely high.

In 2008, the government decided to extent the area of Hanoi (from 920 km² to 3.323 km²) by incorporating the neighbour province Ha Tay entirely and parts of the provinces Vinh Phuc and Hoa Binh into Hanoi. Furthermore, there are plans to build on the alluvial plains of the Red River which would result in the loss of these ecologically important areas and valuable landscapes. The city of Hanoi is expanding at a fast pace with limited control or proper land use planning. In the course of this building boom future as well as current effects on the environment are not taken into consideration, even though current environmental impacts are partly alarming. Already today the inhabitants of the urban districts suffer from immense air pollution and noise exposure. There is also a lack of open and green space. Many questions of land use planning especially in the course of expanding the city area remain unanswered, such as - Where should the efforts of development be concentrated?- Which will be the functions of the incorporated rural districts and towns?- Which are the town-countryside relationships?- Should the alluvial plains of the Red River be used as building areas? And if yes: where and to which extent?

Against the background of the large need for research on land use and environmental planning for the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER) and the Hanoi University of Science (HUS) as the two main partners want to organize an expert workshop in Hanoi on the topic „Environmental and land use planning in Hanoi as a contribution to sustainable urban development“. The efforts are undertaken together with other Vietnamese partners, amongst others the Institute of Geography of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (IG) and the Vietnam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources (VIGMR). The workshop aims at identifying problems and urgent questions in environmental and land use planning in Hanoi. As a result, a corporate research project on urban and regional development is meant to be developed.

The workshop is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the “German Year in Vietnam 2010” framework program.

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Venue

The work shop is held at the Conference Hall GS Le Van Thiem, 19 Lê Thánh Tông, Hà Noi:

Organised by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development and the Hanoi University of Science.Sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

Contact /RegistrationWe kindly ask you to register your attendance by sending the application form (download at www.ioer.de) via e-mail to

Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER)PD Dr. Nguyen Xuan ThinhWeberplatz 1, 01217 DresdenTel.: (0351) 46 79-260Fax: (0351) 46 79-212E-Mail: NG.Thinh@ioer.de

Registration Deadline: 27th October 2010

German Year in Vietnam 2010 – “City of the Future – Future of the City”

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Saturday, 30 October 2010

Registration

Welcome SpeechProf. Dr. Bui Duy Cam (Rector of HUS)Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller (Director of IOER)

First SessionChair: Prof. Dr. Pham Ngoc Ho (HUS)PD Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thinh & Anne Bräuer (IOER)Land use in Hanoi, status quo of research and planning and objectives of a future co-operation project

Dr. Do Tu Lan (Ministry of Construction)Economical and efficient use of construction land in Hanoi to assure the ecological balance, environmental protection and sustainable development

Coffee Break

Second SessionChair: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller (IOER)Prof. Dr. Pham Ngoc DangEnvironmental changes in the process of urbanization and environmental protection-oriented development plan for Hanoi until 2030

Dr. Gotthard Meinel (IOER)Land-use information systems - basics of planning and manage-ment

Short StatementsChair: Dr. Nguyen Dinh Ky (IG)Ministry of ConstructionMinistry of Natural Resources and EnvironmentPeople’s Committee of Hanoi CityDepartement of Planning and Architecture Hanoi

Joint Lunch

Third SessionChair: Prof. Dr. Pham Ngoc DangProf. Dr. Pham Ngoc Ho (HUS)Inventory of pollution emission from road traffic sources in the area of Hanoi for environmental planning

Dr. Nguyen Dinh Ky (IG)Research on some pressing problems of environmental geogra-phy for spatial planning in Hanoi

Dr. Do Tuyet (VIGMR)Some recommendations for Hanoi capital planning from the perspective of geological sciences

Coffee Break

Fourth SessionChair: PD Dr. Nguyen Xuan ThinhClemens Deilmann (IOER)Resource efficiency of settlement structures

Dr. Peter Wirth (IOER)Urban regional planning and economic development

Closing SessionProf. Dr. Pham Ngoc Ho and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller

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Organisation committee

Prof. Dr. Bui Duy Cam (HUS, Rector)Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller (IOER, Director)Prof. Dr. Pham Ngoc Ho (HUS)Prof. Dr. Hoang Xuan Co (HUS)PD Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thinh (IOER)Phan Duy Nga (HUS)Dr. Nguyen Dinh Ky (IG, Director)Dr. Nguyen Linh Ngoc (Vice Minister of MoNRE and Director of VIGMR)

District of Hanoi

Land use in Hanoi

GS. TS. Bùi Duy Cam (Hiệu Trưởng Trường ĐHKHTN)GS. TSKH. Bernhard Müller (Viện trưởng Viện IOER)GS. TS. Phạm Ngọc Hồ (ĐHKHTN)PGS. TS. Hoàng Xuân Cơ (ĐHKHTN)PGS. TSKH. Nguyễn Xuân Thính (IOER)