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Mekong agreement and its implications for China
This thesis concerns itself with the Mekong Agreement and its implications for China. After the introduction of the Mekong hydropolitics it focuses on an analysis of the international law and China's state practice, aimed at identifying the rules of customary international law in the utilization …
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Managing Flow, Sediment And Hydropower In The Mekong River Basin
The Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia is one of the world's most productive and diverse ecosystems. Originating from the Tibetan Plateau, for much of its history the river flowed freely, draining parts of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam on its way to the South China Sea. …
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Salt-tolerant rice variety adoption in the Mekong River Delta
… plays an important role in the economy of the Mekong River Delta (MRD), but rice production is endangered by sea-level rise and the associated increased incidence of salinity intrusion. This study examines the diffusion of salt-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) in the MRD that were promoted …
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Assessment of Sediment and Salinity in the Lower Mekong River Basin
The Mekong River Basin (MRB) is famous for its rice farming and export and produces more than 20 million tons of rice per year. Rice production depends on climate, irrigation, soil fertility. However, this region is adversely impacted by several environmental concerns like nutrient deficiency from …
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The Role of Universities in the Development of Greater Mekong Subregional Economic Cooperation
Most individuals interviewed were satisfied with past and present GMS university cooperative activities. However, some were frustrated over problems arising from complex bureaucracy, political intervention, and language differences. They viewed the insufficiency of funds, the lack of information …
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Regionalism and foreign policy:China-Vietnam relations and institution-building in the Greater Mekong Subregion
… and capacity-building of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and its interactions with the foreign policies of member states, exemplified by the foreign policies of China and Vietnam. The structure of the GMS includes not only central governments, but also subnational units (provincial …
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Large-scale floodplain sediment dynamics in the Mekong Delta : present state and future prospects
The Mekong Delta (MD) sustains the livelihood and food security of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia. It is known as the “rice bowl” of South East Asia and has one of the world’s most productive fisheries. Sediment dynamics play a major role for the high productivity of agriculture and …
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The Lower Mekong Basin Development Project: Opportunities and Problems of Regionalism in Southeast Asia
… is to examine the concept and the outcome of the Mekong proposal contained in President Lydon B. Johnson's peace initiative, April 7, 1965, expressed in a speech at the Johns Hopkins University and to a national radio and television audience. The speech asserted U.S. willingness to negotiate an …
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Sediment chemistry as an archive of provenance and weathering in the Mekong River Basin
… from the Himalayan-Tibetan-Plateau region, the Mekong River. A major new data set is presented of the elemental abundance (major and trace) and isotopic composition (lithium-strontium-neodymium) for the suspended and bank/bedload particulates collected from depth profiles along the Mekong main …
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The Carbon Budget of the Mekong River Basin: A Spatial and Temporal Study of Chemical Weathering
… from one of the world's largest rivers, the Mekong in Southeast Asia, are presented. A new two end member mixing model is used to partition sources of dissolved sulfate. Importantly, sulfate sources cannot be distinguished using $\delta^{34}S_{SO_4}$ alone, and hence $\delta^{18}O_{SO_4}$ …
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The Chemical and Physical Properties of The Alluvial Soils of The Mekong-Donnai Delta in South Vietnam
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How do the availability of fish and rice affect occupation and food security in the Lower Mekong Basin?
… and food security of people in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam. The study focuses on subsistence and commercial fishers and farmers. The data obtained for my research are from the first basin-wide survey conducted across the four countries …
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Support Needs of Agrarian Women To Build Household Livelihood Resilience: A Case Study of the Mekong River Delta
… on An Giang and Soc Trang provinces in the Mekong River Delta (MRD), two regions highly vulnerable to climate change. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and analyzed by a qualitative analysis process, historical event tracking, and descriptive statistical analyses using R …
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Economic Analysis of Farm Household Perceptions and Preferences for Salinity Intrusion Risk Reduction in the Mekong River Delta
… factors, sea water is intruding into the Mekong River Delta (MRD). Declining flows, as a result of increasing upstream water use, are a primary cause of sea water intrusion. Climate change-induced sea level rise is a secondary cause. Finally, increased water use due to an expansion in the …
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Rising Tides, Falling Harvests: Examining the Effects of Salinity Intrusion on Paddy Production in Lower Mekong Delta, Vietnam
… is a major threat to paddy cultivation in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam (MKD). Salinity exposure reduces crop yields, increases soil salinity, and exacerbates fresh water scarcity, resulting in altered land use decisions and decreased paddy farming profitability. This study evaluates the effects …
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GIS-based reservoir planning with limited data in developing nations: a case study of the Lower Mekong River Basin
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Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
… among shrimp farming households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. I use the ways these households perceive and experience risk and vulnerability as a lens for understanding their situation. The study finds that farming households across the socio-economic spectrum have experienced intensified risk …
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Vietnamese villages in the Mekong Delta: their articulations with a wider society and the implications for local social organization
… I examine community social organization in the Mekong Delta with particular reference to the nature and consequences of the village’s connections with the wider Vietnamese society. In so doing, my objectives are both ethnographic and theoretical. The latter derive from the fact that, although …
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