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Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9789292542061
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Climate Risks in the Mekong Delta written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292542079
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Climate Risks in the Mekong Delta written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the outputs of the Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Study in the Mekong Delta. The study focuses on vulnerability assessment of two provinces in the Mekong Delta region: Ca Mau and Kien Giang. Using climate change modeling, socioeconomic data, geographic information system analysis, and expert opinion, the study identifies future climate conditions and assesses the effects of future climate scenarios on the natural, social, and economic systems of each district of Ca Mau and Kien Giang provinces. It provides provides province and district policy makers with an understanding of the key areas of vulnerability and risk hot spots with regard to climate change up to 2050. It provides practical measures that provincial and district administrations can take to inform and strengthen their climate change adaptation programs.
Author : Fabrice G. Renaud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400739621
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Mekong Delta System written by Fabrice G. Renaud and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book about the Mekong Delta presents a unique collection of state-of-the-art contributions by international experts from different scientific disciplines about the characteristics and pressing water-related challenges of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The Mekong Delta belongs to one of the areas, which are to expect the largest challenges concerning environmental change and climate change induced sea level rise . The Delta acts as the “rice bowl” of Southeast Asia and is home to over 17 Million people, who need to cope with ecologic as well as socio-economic changes linked to the rapid economic development of the country. Annual floods, severe droughts, salt water intrusion, degrading water quality, tropical cyclones, hydrologic changes due to hydropower projects in the upstream of the Mekong, coastal erosion, and the loss of biodiversity are some of the problems in the region. Heterogeneous resource management responsibilities, and the fact that the Mekong – and thus also the Delta – is influenced by six countries aggravate the situation. Integrated water resources management and fostered cooperation and information exchange are pressing needs for the sustainable development of the Delta.
Author : Mart A. Stewart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940070934X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta written by Mart A. Stewart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course of many millennia has produced a region of fertile alluvial soils and constant flows of energy. Today about a fourth of the Delta is under rice cultivation, making this area one of the premier rice granaries in the world. The Delta has always proven a difficult environment to manipulate, however, and because of population pressures, increasing acidification of soils, and changes in the Mekong’s flow, environmental problems have intensified. The changing way in which the region has been linked to larger flows of commodities and capital over time has also had an impact on the region: For example, its re-emergence in recent decades as a major rice-exporting area has linked it inextricably to global markets and their vicissitudes. And most recently, the potential for sea level increases because of global warming has added a new threat. Because most of the region is on average only a few meters above sea level and because any increase of sea level will change the complex relationship between tides and down-river water flow, the Mekong Delta is one of the areas in the world most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. How governmental policy and resident populations have in the past and will in coming decades adapt to climate change as well as several other emerging or ongoing environmental and economic problems is the focus of this collection.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292545574
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project aims to enhance connectivity across provinces of southern Viet Nam and Ho Chi Minh City. It includes two major bridges, a 15-kilometer road connecting the two bridges, and approach roads. Given the high exposure of the Mekong Delta to severe flooding, a climate risk and vulnerability assessment was conducted to assess the vulnerability of the project to climate change. The assessment report provides a better understanding of climate change threats to the project infrastructure. It also provides project stakeholders with information necessary for consensus building for the adoption of a robust approach to responding to climate change. The study illustrates that a constrained time frame and limited resources may not be significant impediments to the undertaking of climate risk vulnerability assessments, which can provide valuable information at the project design stage to increase the climate resilience of large investment projects.
Author : Louis Lebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789670630250
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Climate Risks, Regional Integration, and Sustainability in the Mekong Region written by Louis Lebel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rapid economic growth coupled with current and projected climate risks are challenging livelihoods and ecosystems in the Mekong Region. In some locations unsustainable development has created or deepened vulnerabilities to climate change as well as global, regional, and transborder socioeconomic processes. More accessible and appropriate information is urgently needed on ways to reduce the negative aspects of development and adapt to the impacts of climate change in this region. This book improves our understanding of the linkages between drivers, opportunities, and constraints on the sustainability of the Mekong Region's ecosystems - at the transboundary, subnational, and local levels. Economic integration, urbanization, and climate change have impacts that vary greatly among locations. Hence, one key lesson in this book is that it is important to tailor policies and actions to specific places and communities, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable sections of the population, and the capacities of local actors. These multi-site and -country case studies provide much stronger tests of the merits and limitations of common policies than studies carried out in a single country, underlining the benefits of collaborative research."--Website.
Author : Nguyen Danh Thao
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128004797
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam written by Nguyen Danh Thao and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book examines threats such as tropical cyclones, sea-level rise, flooding, erosion, and salinity intrusion, and their respective effects on coastal structures and environments. It also looks at crucial management and mitigation efforts, including breakwater design, irrigation systems, coastal dunes and dikes, and more. The challenges faced by this country in the future will have important regional and global repercussions; areas such as the Mekong Delta produce a significant proportion of the world’s rice, and coastal impacts on this region will have far-reaching economic and public health effects. This book is an important source of information for government and local policy makers, environmental and climate scientists, and engineers. Broad coverage of climate challenges specific to the region, including sea-level rise, storms, erosion, and more Assessments of impact on, and effects of, economic development and port construction Examination of public policy responses to climate change
Author : Hemant Ojha
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031166485
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Climate Risks to Water Security written by Hemant Ojha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Asia and the Pacific, climate change is now a well-recognised risk to water security but responses to this risk are either under reported, or continue to be guided by the incremental or business as usual approaches. Water policy still tends to remain too narrow and fragmented, compared to the multi-sectoral and cross-scalar nature of risks to water security. What’s more, current water security debates tend to be framed in discipline specific or academic ways, failing to understand decision making and problem-solving contexts within which policy actors and partitioners have to operate on a daily basis. Much of the efforts to date has focussed on assessing and predicting the risks in the context of increasing levels of uncertainty. There is still limited analysis of emerging practices of risks assessment and mitigation in different contexts in Asia and the Pacific. Going beyond the national scales and focussing on several socio-ecological zones, this book captures stories written by engaged scholars on recent attempts to develop cross-sectoral and cross-scaler solutions to assess and mitigate risks to water security across Asia and the Pacific. Identifying lessons from successes and failures, it highlights management and strategic lessons that water and climate leaders of Asia and the Pacific need to consider. This book showcases reflective and analytical thought pieces written by key actors in the climate and water spaces. Several critical socio-ecological zones are covered – from Pakistan in the west to pacific islands in the east. The chapters clearly identify strategies for improvement based on the analysis of emerging responses to climate risks to water security and gaps in current practices. The book will include an editorial introduction and a final synthesis chapter to ensure clear articulation of common themes and to highlight the overall messages of the book.
Author : 阮氏秋莊
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Risk Perception and Responses to Climate Change of Rice Farmers in Mekong Delta Region, Vietnam written by 阮氏秋莊 and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tuyet L. Cosslett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319021982
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Water Resources and Food Security in the Vietnam Mekong Delta written by Tuyet L. Cosslett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mekong River has been a main source of conquest, conflict, and cooperation in the Southeast Asian region. Much has been written on the vital and critical importance of the Mekong River fresh water to the sustainable economic development of the Mekong Delta. This book selects the Mekong Delta as a case study of regional cooperation for water and food security for not only for Vietnam but also for the world in a new century of global economy. It focuses not only on the Mekong Delta as an integral part of the River but also on Can Tho City and its 12 provinces that produce over 50 percent of the country’s rice output and 60 percent of total fishery output. The book takes a micro approach to examine how each province is adapting to the twin threats of mainstream dams construction and climate change, reducing fresh water flows and increasing saline infusions on its present and future economy. Finally, it reviews the roles of international institutional arrangements, namely the Mekong Committee and the Mekong River Commission, in promoting regional cooperation among the riparian states for political and economic development of the Mekong Delta.
Author : N.Q. Dinh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Flood risk analysis under climate change scenarios in Long Xyuyen Quadrangle region of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam written by N.Q. Dinh and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joep Janssen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789075271942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Living with the Mekong written by Joep Janssen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deliang Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819707595
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Water Resources in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Impact of Climate Change and Human Interventions written by Deliang Chen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ole Bruun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642358047
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change written by Ole Bruun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context. The way in which possible climate impacts interact with a range of other challenges in agriculture, forestry, disaster planning, health care, general economic development, and common livelihoods are presented, and it is argued that greater realism and broader vision are needed in order to address the climate challenge. For instance, unsuitable land- use changes in both coastal and highland regions may increase the vulnerability of rural people, many of whom are already living on the fringes. The author(s) also state(s) that, depending on context, it may be pertinent to address short-term and unsustainable resource use, irregularities in local land management, ineffective governance and social inequality, which are all likely to aggravate the impact of external climate and weather. Not least, it is imperative to integrate general environmental management with any climate-change adaptation effort.
Author : John D. Milliman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107612181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean written by John D. Milliman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers provide the primary link between land and sea. Utilizing the world's largest database, this book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting fluvial discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. The ways in which climatic variation, episodic events, and anthropogenic activities - past, present and future - affect the quantity and quality of river discharge are discussed in the final two chapters. The book contains 26 tables and more than 165 figures - many in full color - including global and regional maps. The book's extensive appendix presents the 1534-river database as a series of 44 tables and 132 maps that provide quantitative data regarding the discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. The complete database is also presented within a GIS-based package available online at www.cambridge.org/milliman. River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean provides an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in hydrology, oceanography, geology, geomorphology and environmental policy.
Author : Qiuhong Tang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479839
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Climate Risk and Sustainable Water Management written by Qiuhong Tang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks to water security for students, researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and management professionals.
Author : Huynh Truong Gia Nguyen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Effect of Climate Change, Human Activity, and Water Management Interventions on Environmental and Socio-economic Outcomes in the Mekong Delta Region written by Huynh Truong Gia Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam Mekong Delta (VMD) is the southernmost part of the Mekong River watershed basin and plays a critical role in Vietnam’s socio-economic and ecological wellbeing. Because of both climate change and anthropogenic activities, such as hydropower dam construction and overwhelming water extraction, the area has recently experienced severe droughts, changing rainfall patterns, and decreasing water resources, collectively heightening disaster risks. Understanding the interactions among these evolving factors is key to preserving resources in the VMD and similarly afflicted regions. Therefore, this dissertation included three objectives. The first objective was to estimate potential impacts of changes in the available water resources in the research area by predicting soil moisture and drought risk in the Mekong Delta using the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model. The second objective was to develop and validate an Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) that would be able to predict soil moisture in the Mekong Delta. This process entailed using historical soil moisture data and comparing those data with the ANNs predicted model data. The third objective was to evaluate the willingness of the inhabitants of the VMD to engage in potential tradeoffs to avoid potential disaster risk in the region and to use this information to assist the Vietnamese government in developing environmental policies in the VMD. The VIC model showed that land cover change would have minimal impact on soil moisture in the area, that an increase in cropland would result in a decrease in soil moisture, and that there would be notable differences in soil moisture during the wet versus dry season. Also, the model showed that there would be severe drought in the period between the wet and dry season along the VMD’s western coastline. The ANNs model resulted in a high correlation between the historical data and the predicted soil moisture. In brief, both the VIC model and the ANN model have the ability to predict soil moisture. After the Vietnamese government introduced a flood management system, altering the natural flood pattern, VMD residents of both the area immediately downstream from the flood management structures and those who lived farther downstream were negatively affected socioeconomically. We conducted a survey of residents of the VMD and found that residents were willing to trade off some shortterm benefits for long-term stability, but the residents farthest downstream were more willing to accept tradeoffs than those residing immediately below the flood management system, as those farther downstream were more negatively affected by the new flood plan.
