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Green Growth City Development Strategy for Da Nang ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DA NANG GREEN GROWTH CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY CORE TEAM Supervisor: Nguyen Quang, Jooseub Lee, Ho Ky Minh Team Leader: Juhyun Lee, Juhye Kwak Task Manager: Do Minh Huyen, Vo Ho Bao Hanh, Bui Thu Hien Principal Authors: Juhyun Lee and Sohyun Park Consultant Team: Task Force members of Da Nang Institute of Socio-Economic Development and Ambika Chawla Publication Coordinator: Nguy Huong Ha Layout and Editorial Works: Narae Lee English Editing and Proof Reading: Ambika Chawla CONTRIBUTOR Da Nang Institute of Socio-Economic Development for facilitating whole process of GG-CDS preparation, training, technical meeting, training, and consultations; Departments of Da Nang City, Da Nang High tech park management board and Peoples’ Committees of districts for consolidating data, conducting assessment, being interviewed, and providing technical comments; International Urban Training Center and Suwon City Government for preparing and conducting “A training for Green Growth City Development Strategy”; Prof. Jeonghee Lee and Prof. Inkwon Park of University of Seoul, for valuable comments and technical advice through the whole process of developing GG-CDS; Korea Energy Management Corporation, Korea Environment Corporation, Korea Transport Institute, Korea Industrial Complex Corporation, Korea Rural Economic Institute, and G&S innovation for contribution to technical consultation and advice on development of key green growth strategic initiatives; Prof. Donyun Kim of Sungkyunkwan University for developing an in-depth consultation paper on the conceptual mas- ter plan for Da Nang High Tech Park; Dr. Krishna Shrestha of University of New South Wales, Dr. Bernard Rowan of University of Chicago, Dr. Van Long Hoang, Mr. Manh Trinh Chu of Da Nang University, and Tadashi Matsumoto of the OECD for his valuable comments on the draft Da Nang GG-CDS; Ashley Hollenbeck for developing a session of integrated water resource management in collaboration with local stake- holders; Boram Kim for supporting developing a session on social development and green growth; UN-Habitat and GGGI acknowledge the contribution of all conductors and participants of training and consultative workshops under the framework of project, and also those who were interviewed by the international and national experts FINANCIAL SUPPORT GGGI (Global Green Growth Institute) LOGISTICAL SUPPORT UN-Habitat Office in Vietnam iv GREEN GROWTH CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR DA NANG TABLE OF CONTENTS DISCLAIMER i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii LIST OF FIGURES vi LIST OF TABLES viii LIST OF BOXES viii ACRONYMS ix I. INTRODUCTION TO DA NANG GREEN GROWTH CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 1. BACKGROUND AND PRIMARY OBJECTIVES 2 2. APPROACHES AND PROCESSES 4 3. RELATION TO OTHER PLANS 7 II. DA NANG CITY DEVELOPMENT AND GREEN GROWTH 1. DA NANG AND OVERALL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES 10 1.1 Context for Development of Da Nang 10 1.2 Key Challenges and Opportunities for Da Nang Development 11 2. GREEN GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES AND GAP ANALYSIS OF DA NANG 15 2.1 Sustainable Urban Service and Infrastructure 15 2.1.1 Material Management 16 2.1.2 Access & Mobility Management 22 2.1.3 Green Space and Construction 29 2.1.4 Green Industrial Development and Management 35 2.2 Natural Resource Based Development and Management 39 2.2.1 Agriculture and Rural Development 39 2.2.2 Integrated Water Resource Management 43 2.2.3 Eco-system based Tourism Development 47 2.3 Social Development and Green Growth 50 2.3.1 Health and Labor for green growth 50 2.3.2 Livelihood Resilience to Natural Disaster and Climate Change 54 2.3.3 Governance for Inclusive Growth 55 3. GREEN GROWTH SWOT ANALYSIS OF DA NANG 58 TABLE OF CONTENTS v III. GREEN GROWTH STRATEGIC INITIATIVES OF DA NANG 1. OVERVIEW 64 2. KEY STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS 66 2.1 Strategic Initiative1: Sustainable Material Management for Local Economic Development 66 2.2 Strategic Initiative 2: Green and Public Transportation for Sustainable City 80 2.3 Strategic Initiative 3: Green Industrialization Master Plan and Eco Industrial Development 88 2.4 Strategic Initiative 4: Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) for Green Growth 107 2.5 Strategic Initiative 5: Green Agricultural Village linked with Green Production and Ecotourism 112 CONCLUSION 119 END NOTES 120 APPENDIXES (Part 2) 1. Green Growth for Sutainable Urbanization of Vietnam - Key issues and innnovative approaches 3 2. Green Growth indicators examples and indicators Da Nang 30 3. Indicators for Da Nang Green Growth Opportunity 38 4. Report on the Survey Results for Da Nang Green Growth City Development Strategy (GG-CDS) 41 5. Danang City Development Strategy policy discussion paper 65 6. Best practices from other cities/countries and Pilot projects ideas 117 7. PROPOSAL of Building scientific framework for the Vu Gia - Thu Bon River Basin Coordination Organization (RBCO) establishment 128 8. Da Nang High -Tech Park (DHTP) Consulting Report 142 9. Reference for calculating potential Economic Benefits of Strategic Initiatives 163 vi GREEN GROWTH CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR DA NANG LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. CDS strategic approaches to strength SEDP, Master plan and Eco-city plan 3 Figure 2. Green Growth Criteria of Da Nang GG-CDS 4 Figure 3. Analytical structure of Green Growth Orientation for Da Nang Development 5 Figure 4. Map of Vietnam 10 Figure 5. GDP comparison between Da Nang and overall Vietnam (unit: USD): 1997 - 2011 (left) 11 Figure 6. Economy structures of Da Nang: 2000 - 2011 (right) 11 Figure 7. Urban spatial development planning for Da Nang by 2030 14 Figure 8. Green Growth Performance Areas and Da Nang City 15 Figure 9. Green Growth Opportunities for Resource and Solid Waste Management in Da Nang City 16 Figure 10. Collected solid waste in Da Nang City 17 Figure 11. Waste composition in Da Nang City (2011) 17 Figure 12. A concept of economic incentive systems based on waste management hierarchy 21 Figure 13. Green Growth Opportunities of Access and Mobility Management in Da Nang City 22 Figure 14. Transport network in Da Nang City 23 Figure 15. Potential BRT corridors in Da Nang City 25 Figure 16. Creation of market value for public transportation in Da Nang City 25 Figure 17. Integration effects of public transportation and land use planning 26 Figure 18. Traffic accidents in Da Nang City 26 Figure 19. Green Growth Opportunities of Green Space and Construction in Da Nang City 29 Figure 20. Densification opportunities for Da Nang (referring to CapeTown) 31 Figure 21. Patches and corridors of Habitat Cores for Da Nang City 34 Figure 22. Green Growth Opportunities of Green Industrial Development & Management in Da Nang City 35 Figure 23. Industrial parks in Da Nang City 37 Figure 24. Green Growth Opportunities of Agriculture and Rural Development in Da Nang City 39 Figure 25. Forest coverage rate in Da Nang City 41 Figure 26. The Quang Hue Cross Connection: Da Nang City’s Water Intake System 42 Figure 27. Green Growth Opportunities for Integrated Water Resource Management in Da Nang City 43 Figure 28. Quang Nam Province Hydropower System & DakMi4 Inter-Basin Diversion Project 45 Figure 29. Green Growth Opportunities of Eco-system Based Tourism Development in Da Nang 47 Figure 30. Green Growth Opportunities of Health and Labor in Da Nang City 51 Figure 31. Comparison between conventional centralized infrastructure facilities for wastewater and solid waste 53 Figure 32. Semi-centralized supply and treatment center at district and neighborhood level that combines infrastructural functions and generates multiple useful services 53 Figure 33. Green Growth Opportunities of Governance for Inclusive Growth in Da Nang City 56 Figure 34. Overview of strategic initiatives of Green Growth Orientation for Da Nang Development 64 Figure 35. Waste solution though IRRC mechanism 68 Figure 36. Main principles and expected outcomes of IRRC 69 Figure 37. Indication system for separation of recyclables: example of Korea 70 Figure 38. Financing component and financial flows in the IRRC program for Da Nang City 72 Figure 39. Role design for promoting the IRRC system in Da Nang City 73 Figure 40. Concept: Biomass to Electricity 75 Figure 41. Financing component and financial flows in the Biomass Power Plant program for Da Nang City 77 LIST OF FIGURES vii Figure 42. Role design for promoting the Biomass Power Plant in Da Nang City 78 Figure 43.