The Mekong Delta Environmental Research Guidebook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Park, Edward.

Loc, Ho Huu.

Tran, Dung Duc.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Estuarine and Coastal Sciences ; v.Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)--Research.

Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, 2024.

Contents:

Front Cover

The Mekong Delta Environmental Research Guidebook

Copyright Page

Contents

List of contributors

I. Introduction

1 Mekong Delta in globally changing environment

1.1 Overview of the Mekong Delta region

1.2 Global changes and local impacts

1.3 Human activities and environmental sustainability in the Mekong Delta

1.4 Unsolved environmental issues

1.5 Case studies on environmental issues

1.6 Concluding remarks

References

II. Unsolved environmental issues at the regional and delta scales

2 Understanding climate change, dam impact, and flood management in the Mekong River Basin

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Basin characteristics of the Mekong River Basin

2.2.1 Flooding

2.2.2 Droughts

2.2.3 Biodiversity

2.2.4 Land use change

2.3 Material and methods

2.3.1 Baseline simulation

2.3.2 Climate change impact

2.3.3 Dam impact

2.3.4 Integrated impacts on flooding and agricultural damages

2.3.5 Flood forecast

2.4 Results

2.4.1 Climate change impact

2.4.2 Dam impact

2.4.3 Integrated impacts

2.4.4 Flood agricultural damages

2.4.5 Flood forecast

2.5 Discussion

2.5.1 Challenges in river basin management

2.5.2 Current contribution, limitations, and future research directions

2.6 Conclusion

Acknowledgment

3 Investigate the practices of water-energy-food nexus governance in the context of transboundary basin: a case study in th...

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Status quo of the water-energy-food nexus on hydropower development in Lower Mekong Basin

3.2.1 Hydropower and flood management

3.2.2 Hydropower and fisheries

3.2.3 Hydropower and agriculture

3.2.4 Water-energy-food nexus governance

definitions

3.2.5 The role of the focal institution in the water-energy-food nexus governance

3.3 Mekong River Commission

3.3.1 Lower Mekong region

3.3.2 The emergence of transboundary institutions (the 1950s-1995)

3.3.3 Mekong River Commission practices related to the water-energy-food Nexus

3.3.3.1 Actions of Mekong River Commission

3.3.3.2 Rules and regulations

3.3.3.3 Knowledge sharing

3.3.3.4 Capacity building

3.3.4 Limitations of Mekong River Commission

3.4 Suggestions for good water-energy-food nexus governance of Mekong River Commission

3.4.1 Capacity building in the water-energy-food nexus

3.4.2 Accountability of the private sector

3.4.3 Reforms

3.5 Conclusions

4 The dynamics of domestic and industrial water consumption (2000-19) in the Mekong River Basin

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Study area

4.3 Data sources and methodology

4.3.1 Data sources and data preprocessing

4.3.2 Methodology

4.3.3 Accuracy assessment

4.3.4 Assessment of factors driving water consumption variations

4.4 Results

4.4.1 Spatiotemporal variations in domestic water consumption

Notes:

4.4.2 Spatiotemporal variations in industrial water consumption

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Park, Edward The Mekong Delta Environmental Research Guidebook

ISBN:

9780443236747

0443236747

Publisher Number:

40032557064

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