The Mekong Delta System: Interdisciplinary Analyses of a River Delta - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I Deltas under change

1. Introduction

2. Climate and Environmental Change in River Deltas Globally: Expected Impacts, Resilience, and Adaptation

Part II Water and development in the Mekong Delta

3. Hydrology and Hydraulic Infrastructure Systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

4. Socio-Economic Development in the Mekong Delta: Between the Prospects for Progress and the Realms of Reality

5. IWRM for the Mekong Basin

6. Water Governance under Renovation? Concepts and Practices of IWRM in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Part III Water resources and related risks

7. Groundwater Resources in the Mekong Delta: Availability, Utilization and Risks

8. Flood hydraulics and suspended sediment transport in the Plain of Reeds, Mekong Delta

9. Monsoon variability and the Mekong flood regime

10. Vulnerability, coping and adaptation to water related hazards in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Part IV Water and environment

11. Biodiversity of the Mekong Delta

12. Mangrove ecosystems in the Mekong Delta - Overcoming uncertainties in inventory mapping using satellite remote sensing data

13. Agriculture and water quality in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

14. Aquaculture and agricultural production in the Mekong Delta and its effects on nutrient pollution of soil and water

Part V Water knowledge and information

15. Managing Knowledge for the Development of the Mekong Delta

16. A Water-Related Web-based Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta

17. The water-development nexus: importance of knowledge, information and cooperation in the Mekong Delta

Index

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