Abstract
“Circular economy (CE) has been seen as a solution to decoupling the economic development and environmental degradation i.e. sustainability. The CE development has crossed various scales (micro – meso – macro), sectors (agriculture, building, energy etc.), and multi-stakeholders (inter-government, industry, academia, NGOs and others). This aspect requires a strong collaboration among those actors. The talk with first introduce about the need of CE and how it has been developed in Vietnam in both science and practice. It’s followed by showing some examples carried by the Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED), Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh city (VNU-HCM). It emphasized the need of inter-/transdisciplinary approach to support CE transition in Vietnam toward sustainable development”
Short Bio
Dr. NGUYEN Hong Quan is currently an associate professor at the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh city (VNU-HCM). He is leading a newly established Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED) and also affiliated with socio-hydrology group at center of Water management and Climate Change (WACC), Institute for Environment and Resources (IER), VNU-HCM. He has a special interest in solving environmental related issues based on inter/trans-disciplinary study and by a strong partnership among academia-industry-government. He has been working in water modeling (e.g. saline intrusion, flood/drought, water pollution) in Southern Vietnam over the past 15 years and expanded his expertise in other disciplines e.g. climate change adaptation/mitigation, circular economy, socio-ecological system, sustainability science. Dr. Nguyen has been leading and participating in number of projects (international, national, ministerial, provincial levels) with total funding of about 1,500,000 US Dollars. He has published actively at various (inter-)national journals, conferences/workshops including 60 ISI/Scopus indexed articles.
