CAO Vu Quynh Anh

Education

PhD., Sustainability Science, September 2022, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

M.S., Sustainability Science, September 2019, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

B.S., Environment and Development, September 2017, College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Research Interests

1. Social implementation of Flood Early Warning Systems

2. Adapting coastal deltaic cities to flooding induced by sea level rise

3. Human behaviors under increasing flood risks

4. Climate Change Adaptation

5. Disaster Risk Reduction

Peer-reviewed publications

1. Cao, A., Nakamura, S., Otsuyama, K., Namba, M., & Yoshimura, K. (2024). Current status and Challenges in Operating Flood Early Warning Systems at the local level in Japan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104802 

2. Cao, A., Esteban, M., & Onuki, M. (2024). Public support for flood adaptation policy in Tokyo lowland areas. Climate Policy, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2371405 

3. Cao, A., Vo, L. P., Luu, D. H., Nguyen, T. T., Yoshimura, K. (2023). Green EME 2023 conference proceeding paper. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376989785_FLOOD_EARLY_WARNING_SYSTEMS_IN_HO_CHI_MINH_CITY_VIETNAM_CURRENT_STATUS_CHALLENGES_AND_WAY_AHEAD (in print)

4. Takagi, H., Cao, A., & Esteban, M. (2023). Cumulative Land Subsidence in Populated Asian Coastal Cities. Journal of Coastal and Riverine Flood Risk, 1. https://doi.org/10.59490/jcrfr.2023.0002 

5. Cao, A., Esteban, M., Onuki, M., Nguyen, K., & Nguyen, D. T. (2021). Decoupled formal and informal flooding adaptation and conflicts in coastal cities: A case study of Ho Chi Minh City. Ocean & Coastal Management, 209, 105654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105654 

6. Cao, A., Esteban, M., Valenzuela, V. P. B., Onuki, M., Takagi, H., Thao, N. D., & Tsuchiya, N. (2021). Future of Asian Deltaic Megacities under sea level rise and land subsidence: current adaptation pathways for Tokyo, Jakarta, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.02.010 

7. Cao, A., Esteban, M., & Mino, T. (2020). Adapting wastewater treatment plants to sea level rise: learning from land subsidence in Tohoku, Japan. Natural Hazards, 103, 885-902. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04017-5 

(In Japanese journal)

1. 新田友子, Anh Cao, 荒川隆, 竹島滉, 芳村圭，コミュニティ陸モデル開発に向けたILSカプルソンの開催報告，水文・水資源学会誌 36(4) 306-310 2023年　https://doi.org/10.3178/jjshwr.36.306 

2. 黒岩綾子, Cao Vu Quynh Anh, 佐藤亮太, 草野吏, & 松本隼. (2023). 観光と水の相乗効果. EICA: journal of EICA: 環境システム計測制御学会誌/学会誌 「EICA」 編集委員会 編, 27(4), 28-30. https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I032767801#bib 

Conferences

1. Cao Anh, Shinichiro Nakamura, Kensuke Otsuyama, Miki Namba, Kei Yoshimura. Current status and Challenges in Operating Flood Early Warning Systems at the local level in Japan. Oral presentation. The 9th Global Energy and Water Exchanges Open Science Conference, Japan. July 2024.

2. Cao Anh. The role of trust in the face of disasters. Oral presentation. Understanding Risk Global Forum, Japan. June 2024.

3. Cao Anh. Knowledge and opinions on cites’ resilience to future flood risk: A focus on social and institutional aspects. Invited speaker. The World Conference for Future Sustainability and Resilience in Tokyo, Japan. May 2024.

4. Cao Anh, Miguel Esteban, Motoharu Onuki. Mechanisms of public support for flooding adaptation policy: A case study of the super levee in Tokyo. Virtual Poster. Adaptation Futures 2023, Canada. October 2023.

5. Cao Anh, Miguel Esteban, Motoharu Onuki. Water Risk Management of Tokyo’s lowland areas. Invited Speaker. Between Blue Urbanism ́ and Tanah Air: Urban Experiments, Circulations, and Placemaking as Sea Level Change Adaptation, Jakarta. September 2023.

6. Cao Anh. Current status of flood early warning systems in Japan. Oral Presentation. Global Flood Partnership Conference 2023, Singapore. September 2023.

7. Cao Anh, Miguel Esteban, Motoharu Onuki. What constitute public support for flooding adaptation policy. Invited Speaker. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change and Coastal Urban Development in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore. February 2023.

8. Cao Anh, Miguel Esteban, Motoharu Onuki, Nguyen Danh Thao, Nobuyuki Tsuchiya. Adaptation to sea level rise – induced flooding: a comparison of countermeasures being employed in Ho Chi Minh City and Tokyo. Invited speaker. WCRP Sea Level Conference, Singapore. July 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chTE8BN0N1k

9. Cao Anh, Mino Takashi, Miguel Esteban. “Sea Level Rise and Wastewater Treatment Plants: How to adapt”. Oral Presentation. The 56th Annual Technical Conference on Sewerage, Yokohama, Japan. 6 – 8 August 2019.

Research Projects 

Principal Investigator. “Application of the Foundations for Adaptation Policy Support (FAPS) model at the regional scale”. 2024 Kurita Water and Environment Foundation. Research Grant, Oct 2024 – Oct 2025.

Co-Investigator. "Joint Research for Scientific Understanding of Land Subsidence and Coastal Floods in Deltaic Mega-cities of Vietnam". JSPS Bilateral Collaboration Fund, Apr 2025

Co-Principal Investigator. “The Social Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Reclamation: Comparative Prospects in Urban Asia”. 2022 Short-Term Seed Grants for Collaborative Research, United States of America Social Science Research Council and Henry Luce Foundation. Research Grant, 1 September 2022 – 30 June 2023.

Newspaper

Dialogue Earth (October 4, 2023). “Poorest districts worst affected in Ho Chi Minh City floods”. https://dialogue.earth/en/climate/inundation-of-ho-chi-minh-city-disproportionately-impacts-least-affluent-districts/ 

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