Landslide in Dien Bien province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) held a meeting in Hanoi on January 11 to discuss launching a project on building an
The project aims to survey and update information about landslides and flashfloods in
Vietnamese mountainous and midland regions based on effective joint work between local authorities and socio-political organisations, develop an inter-sectoral information management system for sensitive areas to mitigate human and material loss.
Head of the ministry’s Department of Science and Technology Tran Binh Trong said the project will build a
real-time data management system and monitoring stations, as well as help issue legal documents to launch the task in the field, and raise public awareness of the effort.