On 7 August 2018, a meeting between Dr. Nguyen Hieu Trung (DRAGON Institute) and Dr. Kimberley Thomas, Temple University, USA was held at the office of DRAGON Institute. During the meeting, many concerns about water management and land-use change in term of increasing occurrence of extreme weather events in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD) have been discussed. As the result, the social ecology is essential focuses on future researches. The DRAGON Institute-Can Tho University and Temples University have been setting a multi-year collaboration between researchers at two universities.