The Mekong River Basin: Ecohydrological Complexity from Catchment to Coast

ISBN-13: 9780323908146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024

Hong Quan Nguyen; Heiko Apel; Quang Bao Le

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Climate and Climate change in the Mekong river basin
2. Hydrology and water resources in the Mekong river basin (including impacts of Climate Change) Groundwater system?
3. Land use, land cover change and degradation hotspots in Mekong River Basin over 2 past decades
4. Flooding in the Mekong river basin
5. Extreme drought in the Mekong river basin (hydrological, metrological and agriculture drought)
6. Sediment dynamics in the Mekong river basin
7. Aquatic biodiversity in Mekong rivers
8. Water infrastructure development of drivers of hydropower investment taking the case study of Lao PDR
9. Regional collaboration for water development projects
10. Trans-boundary water governance in the Mekong countries
11. Integrating water international principles into water diplomacy in the Lower Mekong Basin
12. Water quality in the Vietnamese Mekong delta (livelihood + ecology)
13. river and morphological change in the Mekong delta (+ socio-economic issues)
14. Groundwater and land subsidence in the Mekong delta
15. Salinity intrusion in the Mekong delta - causes and prospects
16. Coastal disasters and nature - based solutions
17. Livelihoods and climate change adaptation in the Mekong delta
18. Agriculture transformation in the Mekong delta in the new era
19. Synthesis
20. The way forward