Urban environment: Different views of the inhabitants in the two Vietnamese metropolises

The environmental studies are numerous in Vietnam, but they are mainly technical studies. Therefore we decided to address the issue from the perspective of the households and their views on the environment in which they are living and the solutions to the identified problems. For this purpose we conducted a statistical representative household survey in the two Vietnamese metropolises in 2007 on the theme "Poverty, Migration and Urban Environment: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City" from which the present results come. Both the household’s environment and the surrounding environment (location of the house, floods, air pollution, noise, drainage, security) are studied here. The conditions experienced by the inhabitants of the two major cities are broadly similar: they are faced with the problems of the big city. However, some specificities of each one are very interesting to notice. Environmental problems concern more the inhabitants of Hanoi; the reason is to be found in the education of the population which is on average higher, but also in the climate which is harder. In any case, the population of both cities gives us here an inventory of the specific environmental problems faced and his views on how to address them.