Phan Nguyen Hong is a leading authority on the mangrove

Mangrove

Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes N and S...

 ecosystem

Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....

 in Asia. He has been involved in comprehensive scientific research in Vietnam, where war and overdevelopment have had a devastating impact on its mangrove ecosystem. He has made a major contribution to the restoration of the mangrove forests. The Can Gio district, in particular, is an unprecedented example of the successful restoration and conservation of a mangrove forest.
He is the winner of 2008 International Cosmos Prize

International Cosmos Prize

The International Cosmos Prize was established in 1993, commemorating Expo 90 in Osaka, Japan.The objective of the prize is to develop the basic concept of Expo 90, "The Harmonious Coexistence between Nature and Mankind."...

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• Education

  1956 B.Sc., Hanoi Pedagogic University

  1964 M.Sc. in Ecology

  Ecology

  Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

  
  , HUE

  1970 PhD, Hanoi University of Education

• Employment

  1980－1991 Associate Professor of Hanoi University of Education

  1991－2007 Professor of HNUE

  1987－1994 Director of the Mangrove Ecosystem Research Centre (MERC),Hanoi University of Education (HUE)

  1995－2002 Vice Director, Centre for Natural Resources & Environmental Studies (CRES), Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU)

  2003－2007 Director of the Mangrove Ecosystem Research Centre (MERC),Hanoi University of

Education (HUE)

• Honors

  1997 People Teacher Title by the President of Vietnam

  2000 Labour Award (1st level) rewarded by the President and Prime Minister of S.R. Vietnam

  2005 Environment Prize rewarded by Ministry of Natural Resources 　&Environment.

• Publications

  1993 The Mangroves of Vietnam

  2000 Ecological study of mangrove forest in Can Gio, Ho Chi Minh C City, Vietnam

  2002 Mangrove Ecosystem in the Red River Coastal Zone –Biodiversity, Ecology, Socio-Economics, Management and Education

  2006 The role of mangroves and coral reef ecosystems in natural 　　disaster mitigation and coastal life improvement

External links

Hanoi National University of Education http://mangrovesvn.org/