The Mekong River Basin

Ecohydrological Complexity from Catchment to Coast

Hong Quan Nguyen, Heiko Apel, Quang Bao Le, Minh Tu Nguyen, Venkataramana Sridhar, Hong Quan Nguyen, Heiko Apel, Quang Bao Le, Minh Tu Nguyen, Venkataramana Sridhar

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780323908146
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323914505
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

The Mekong River Basin: Ecohydrological Complexity from Catchment to Coast, Volume Three presents real facts, data and predictions for quantifying human-induced changes throughout the Mekong watershed, including its estuaries and coasts, and proposes solutions to decrease or mitigate the negative effect and enable sustainable development. This is the first work to link socio–ecological interaction study over the whole Mekong River basin through the lens of ecohydrology. Each chapter is written by a leading expert, with coverage on climate change, groundwater, land use, flooding drought, biodiversity and anthropological issues.Human activities are enormous in the whole watershed and are still increasing throughout the catchment, with severe negative impacts on natural resources are emerging. Among these activities, hydropower dams, especially a series of 11 dams in China, are the most critical as they generate massive changes throughout the system, including in the delta and to the livelihoods of millions of people and they threaten sustainability. - Presents an extensive collection of eco-hydrological changes in the river basin driven by both nature and anthropological factors - Provides state of the art modeling, data analysis methodologies for complex socio-ecological complexity applied in the Mekong river basin - Includes specific cases of ecohydrology in the river basin, especially from the Mekong delta

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• About the editors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction chapter
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Hydroclimate variability and change over the Mekong River Basin
• Chapter 2 : Hydrology and water resources in the Mekong River Basin
• Chapter 3 : Changes in flood characteristics of the Mekong River Basin
• Chapter 4 : Droughts in the Mekong Basin—Current situation and future prospects
• Chapter 5 : Diverse aspects of sediment assessment in the Mekong River Basin under current and future conditions
• Chapter 6 : Hydropower in the Mekong River Basin: Status of development and ecological impacts
• Chapter 7 : Regional collaboration for water development projects for strengthening the governance of transboundary rivers in the Mekong countries
• Chapter 8 : Trans-boundary water governance in the Mekong countries
• Chapter 9 : The evolution of Vietnam's water diplomacy in Mekong River Basin
• Chapter 10 : The two decades of water quality changes in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
• Chapter 11 : Biodiversity in the Mekong River Basin: Dynamics of planktonic communities and fishes in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
• Chapter 12 : Morphological changes in the Mekong Delta and their implications for livelihoods
• Chapter 13 : Groundwater resource challenges and abstraction-induced land subsidence in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
• Chapter 14 : Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta: Causes, future prospects and recommendations
• Chapter 15 : Erosion of mangrove-mud coasts, resilience of coastal protection, and outlook on nature-based solutions in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
• Chapter 16 : Farmers’ livelihoods and adaptation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: Current practices and policy implications
• Chapter 17 : Agricultural transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in the new era
• Chapter 18 : Synthesis and the way forward
• Index
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