The Mekong River Basin

The Mekong River Basin: Ecohydrological complexity from catchment to coast present real facts and 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. It is the first work to link socio-ecological interaction study over the whole Mekong River basin under the lens of ecohydrology. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and ranges from coverage on climate change, to groundwater, land use, flooding drought, biodiversity and anthropological issues.Human activities are enormous in the whole watershed and they are still increasing throughout the catchment and 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; they generate massive changes throughout the system including in the delta and to the livelihoods of millions of people and they threaten sustainability. This book is an an essential reference for academics and water resources managers throughout South East Asia and worldwide. 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 INDICE: 1. Climate and Climate change in the Mekong river basin2. 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 decades4. Flooding in the Mekong river basin5. Extreme drought in the Mekong river basin (hydrological, metrological and agriculture drought)6. Sediment dynamics in the Mekong river basin7. Aquatic biodiversity in Mekong rivers8. Water infrastructure development of drivers of hydropower investment taking the case study of Lao PDR9. Regional collaboration for water development projects10. Trans-boundary water governance in the Mekong countries11. Integrating water international principles into water diplomacy in the Lower Mekong Basin12. 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 delta15. Salinity intrusion in the Mekong delta - causes and prospects16. Coastal disasters and nature - based solutions17. Livelihoods and climate change adaptation in the Mekong delta18. Agriculture transformation in the Mekong delta in the new era19. Synthesis20. The way forward

• ISBN: 978-0-323-90814-6
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés