Resources
Environmental Governance Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean
The Environmental Governance Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean© represent the first-ever cross-country assessment of how environmental governance functions in practice.
Shooting Stars and Dancing Fish: A Walk to the World We Want
The book tackles the crises of environment and climate in simple and understandable language and sees these challenges as opportunities for humankind to prove its wisdom.
Law on the Protection of the Environment
This Law provides for activities, policies, measures and resources for environmental protection, and for rights and obligations of organizations and individuals in environmental protection. The Law consists of 15 Chapters divided into 136 articles.
Constitution of Viet Nam
This Constitution was unanimously approved by the 8th National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at its 11th session, sitting of 15 April 1992
Law on Biodiversity
Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under Resolution 51/2001/QH10 dated on December 25, 2001 of the Xth National Assembly, the 10th session; this Law stipulates biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
Law on Environmental Protection Tax
This Decree gives details and guides a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection Tax. The Decree provides for taxable objects; tax bases; and tax declaration, calculation, payment and refund.
Law on Forest Protection an Development
This Law provides for the management, protection, development and use of forests and rights and obligations of forest owners.
Law on Urban Planning
The Law on Urban Planning enacted by the National Assembly deals with requirements on urban planning as urban extension management or building norms.
Land Law
This Act lays down basic provisions on land tenure, both rural and urban. All land in Viet Nam is the property of the State, but individual and corporate users, both domestic and foreign, can obtain from the State usufructuary rights under lease-type contractual arrangements (art. 1). Long-term leases, in particular, of cropland are made for twenty years for annual crops and aquaculture, and for fifty years for perennial crops, both terms being renewable on expiry (art. 20).
Law on Water Resources
The Law on Water Resources, approved in 1998, represents a major step toward integrated water resources management.