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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Mekong river"”.
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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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Sediment chemistry as an archive of provenance and weathering in the Mekong River Basin
… sites for understanding weathering processes. Rivers, as a carrier of eroded and weathered materials, provide a primary archive for the study of silicate weathering. This study focuses on one of the largest rivers draining from the Himalayan-Tibetan-Plateau region, the Mekong River. A major new …
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The Carbon Budget of the Mekong River Basin: A Spatial and Temporal Study of Chemical Weathering
… of CO$_{2}$ release to assess whether a river basin is a transient, or long--term source of carbon to the atmosphere. Few studies have highlighted the importance of this weathering reaction and less have quantified the impact of CO$_{2}$ release from sulfuric acid weathering of carbonates …
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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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GIS-based reservoir planning with limited data in developing nations: a case study of the Lower Mekong River Basin
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Integrated river basin management for the Ganges: lessons from the Murray-Darling and Mekong River Basins (a Bangladesh perspective).
… Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) model of Integrated River Basin Management to the Ganges Basin by utilising the lessons from the Mekong experience of adopting the MDB model. The Ganges is one of the major rivers in the world and the sharing of its water has long been an issue of dispute between the …
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Hydraulic modelling and flood inundation mapping in a bedrock-confined anabranching network: the Mekong River in the Siphandone Wetlands, Laos
… and geomorphological<br/>natures of such river networks are still not well known leading to on-going discussions on the<br/>definition and nature of the networks. Even though, alluvial anabranching networks generally<br/>have common features like vegetated islands, low water surface slope …
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Sustainable Management of Water Resources and Hydropower Projects in the Context of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Mekong River Basin
The Mekong River Basin (MRB) is one of the largest transboundary basins in the world shared between six south Asian countries. The Mekong river supports a population of more than sixty million people through irrigation and fisheries for their survival and hosts approximately 88,000 MW of …
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Going with the flow or swimming against the current?: The influence of rules and norms on advocacy strategies of NGO coalitions along the Mekong River
… of the Xayaburi hydropower dam planned on the Mekong River in Laos. The comparison was conducted between the Rivers Coalition in Cambodia and the Vietnam Rivers Network during the planning period for the dams in 2011-2013. <br/>The main findings of the study is that rules, norms, actors, …
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What are the factors associated with sanitation and hygiene behaviours, an investigation in Giong Trom district, Ben Tre province in the Mekong river Delta region of Vietnam?
Poor sanitation and hygiene are still one of the pressing challenges in the developing world with not only serious health and but also non-health consequences. Diarrheal diseases, for example, are preventable by handwashing and hygienic latrine, still kill more than 4500 children every day, more …
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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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TRANSITIONING THAI SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES TO A UNIFIED COMMAND: A STUDY ON ENHANCING COUNTER-HYBRID WARFARE CAPABILITIES
… As the National Security Council identifies the Mekong River as an emerging regional hybrid threat, the current capabilities of Thai SOF appear limited and outdated in effectively addressing such challenges. This study examines Thailand’s evolving national security threats and explores the …
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Infrastructural Landscapes: The Technopolitics of Watershed Planning in Asia
… transnational infrastructure projects in the Mekong River Basin and the promise of regional infrastructure for economic development. I trace the history of transnational planning of the Mekong Project (1957-75) and the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Corridors (1992-), to understand how …
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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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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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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 …