This study used the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmative factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modeling (SEM) and set of five determinants affecting to the city’s AC related to finance, society, infrastructure, human resources, nature. A socio-economic data was conducted in the survey of 1,168 households in Da Nang city. | VNU Journal of Science Earth and Environmental Sciences Vol. 36 No. 3 2020 70-80 Original Article Identifying the Role of Determinantsand Indicators Affecting Climate Change Adaptive Capacity in Da Nang City Vietnam Nguyen Bui Phong1 Mai Trong Nhuan2 Do Dinh Chien1 1 Institute of Meteorology Hydrology and Climate Change 62 23 Nguyen Chi Thanh Dong Da Hanoi Vietnam 2 VNU University of Science 334 Nguyen Trai Hanoi Vietnam Received 25 May 2020 Revised 31 August 2020 Accepted 11 September 2020 Abstract Identifying the role of determinants and indicators affecting climate change adaptive capacity AC in developing Da Nang city s climate change adaptation policies is necessary. However the methods of identifying the role of determinants and indicators affecting AC are relatively limited. This study used the exploratory factor analysis EFA confirmative factor analysis CFA structural equation modeling SEM and set of five determinants affecting to the city s AC related to finance society infrastructure human resources nature. A socio-economic data was conducted in the survey of 1 168 households in Da Nang city. The results indicate that city s AC is strongly correlated with infrastructural social and natural resources. Thus the infrastructural social and natural determinants are the decisive determinants affecting to the city s AC. The AC indicators and the used methods in this study can be applied to determine the role of those determinants and indicators affecting to AC in other coastal provinces in Vietnam. Keywords Climate change EFA CFA adaptive capacity Da Nang. 1. Introduction variables or AC determinants 2 . Quantification of AC determinants can provide essential data Climate change adaptive capacity is defined for AC assessment 3 4 and development of as the adjustment of natural or human systems to successful climate change adaptation strategies cope with circumstances or environments in 5 . However depending on national regional or order to reduce the likelihood
