ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the practical aspects of implementing aligned adaptation action that leads to improvements in liveability, sustainability and resilience of secondary cities in the global south (SCGS). It proposes a set of practical guidelines, recommend structures and processes to apply the framework into practice. In SCGS, there is the need to successfully integrate or harmonise Type I and Type II adaptation measures in order to ensure the affordability, success and sustainability of the measures arising from adaptive actions. The sole promotion of the need to address adaptation-gaps often creates situations where the adaptation research ignores the adaptation-deficits in contexts such as SCGS. The urban agile principles are used to analyse the state of adaptation of Can Tho City in Vietnam and to ascertain the agile ways of addressing its adaptation challenges. Hence Can Tho provides an opportunity to review the application of the agility principles for urban adaptation.
