ORIGINAL PAPER Climate disaster resilience of the education sector in Thua Thien Hue Province, Central Vietnam Thi My Thi Tong • Rajib Shaw • Yukiko Takeuchi Received: 5 October 2011 / Accepted: 31 March 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 Abstract Recognizing the importance of building disaster resilience for education sector, this study aims to develop a methodology to measure the level of educational resilience to cope with natural disasters and is then applied in Central Vietnam. The assessment tool in this paper is developed through a combination of climate disaster resilience indexes and the 16 tasks of Hyogo framework for action designed for education sector. It looks at five dimensions namely physical conditions, human resources, institutional issues, external relationships, and natural conditions, with each dimension characterized by three param- eters and five variables. Findings from this study provide important insights into enhancing resilience of the education system in Thua Thien Hue at the provincial, local, and school levels. By giving the overall resilience situation, it can help policy-makers and practitio- ners in developing an effective plan to increase the level of educational resilience. In addition, it provides the School Management Board with a means to assess the school’s resilience level and set out priorities that need to be focused on with regard to the improvement of school safety and disaster risk reduction education. Keywords Climate disaster Á Resilience Á Disaster risk reduction Á Education Á School 1 Introduction Extensive damages caused by climatic disasters affect every sector of society and set back socio-economic development all over the world, especially in developing countries. Nine out of ten natural disasters around the world have been a result of extreme weather and T. M. T. Tong (&) Á R. Shaw Á Y. Takeuchi Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan e-mail: tongthimythi149@gmail.com R. Shaw e-mail: shaw@global.mbox.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Y. Takeuchi e-mail: y.takeuchi@fw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp 123 Nat Hazards DOI 10.1007/s11069-012-0178-5