Mekong Basin
Hydropower Development in the Lower Mekong Basin: Alternative Approaches to Deal with Uncertainty
... Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) face decisions that involve trade-offs between the economic benefits from hydropower generation and potentially irreversible negative impacts on the ecosystems that provide ...
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Tradeoff analysis between electricity generation and ecosystem services in the Lower Mekong Basin
... Global estimates of the economic value of ecosystem services provided by wetlands range from $ 3300 to 25,680/ha/year (De Groot et al., 2006). A meta-analysis of South East Asian wetlands and mangrove ecosystem services ...
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Assessment of flow changes from hydropower development and operations in Sekong, Sesan and Srepok Rivers of the Mekong Basin
... The Mekong River supports unique biodiversity and provides food security for over sixty million people in the Indo-Burma region, but potential changes to natural flow patterns from hydropower development are a ...
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Response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the Mekong Basin: surveys of country health leaders
... This paper presents an analysis of the subjective assess- ment of performance at two points in time related to MBDS countries’ responses to the 2009-H1N1 pan- demic. Performance early during the pandemic and ...
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Planning Approaches for Hydropower Development in the Lower Mekong Basin
... Lake basin in Montana which was caused by the loss of the Kokanee salmon prey base precipitated by the introduction of opossum shrimp, Mysis diluviana, and the subsequent large increase in predatory lake ...
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Palaeoclimatological perspective on river basin hydrometeorology: case of the Mekong Basin
... developed basin-wide approach could contribute to future climate change studies by bringing a broader time perspective to the analyses and by providing a means for studying the long-term discharge ...the ...
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Uncertainty in climate change projections of discharge for the Mekong River Basin
... the Mekong upstream of Pakse, with this variation thought to be a response to changing land- cover types (Lacombe et ...the Mekong Basin was only modelled as far as the Pakse gauging station in Laos ...
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Flood trends and variability in the Mekong river
... Abstract. Annual maximum discharge is analyzed in the Mekong river in Southeast Asia with regard to trends in av- erage flood and trends in variability during the 20th century. Data from four gauging stations ...
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Management of Transboundary Water Resources Case Study: Mekong River
... The Mekong River Basin, in Southeast Asia, is the region’s largest river basin shared by six ...The basin is divided into two parts: The Upper Basin in Tibet and China, where the river ...
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Impact of climate change on sediment yield in the Mekong River basin: a case study of the Nam Ou basin, Lao PDR
... the basin are highly dependent on the direction of the projected changes in precipitation; this is also concluded by Kingston et ...Ou basin and further downstream in the Mekong ...the Mekong ...
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Social and Environmental Justice for Communities of the Mekong River
... grassroots efforts are proving helpful in offsetting the consequences of both human errors with respect to development projects in the Mekong Basin as well as changes being brought about by climate change. ...
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Hydrological cycle over South and Southeast Asian river basins as simulated by PCMDI/CMIP3 experiments
... the Mekong is amongst the longest rivers in the ...the Mekong Basin primarily depends on the climatic conditions of the al- ternating wet and dry ...northern Mekong basin receives the ...
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Application of Modis 250m images without in situ observations for mapping Mekong River Basin land cover
... its basin. The Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), the region mapped in this study, covers nearly 3/4 of the entire ...the Mekong River basin is located in this fertile LMB which faces disastrous ...
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Historical impact of water infrastructure on water levels of the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap system
... in Mekong flows might be associated with the Himalaya melting (Xu et ...lower Mekong flows between March and May are negligible as a result of the conflicting effect of melt- ing snow cover and increasing ...
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Enhancing capacities of riparian professionals to address and resolve transboundary issues in international river basins: experiences from the Lower Mekong River Basin
... Lower Mekong Basin countries are all “medium hu- man development” countries (human development index be- tween ...the basin still is one of the last great rivers without large reservoirs build in the ...
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The Pulses of the Mekong River Basin: Rivers and the Livelihoods of Farmers and Fishers
... transboundary Mekong River is shared by six SE Asia countries (China, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and ...of Mekong River development and modernization projects on the rural peoples of the ...
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Detecting Spatial and Temporal Change of NDVI Dynamics in the Mekong River Basin: Relationship with Anthropogenic Effects
... Lastly, this research concluded the following; 1) For the human influence on vegetation dynamics, the human effect on northeast Thailand and the Mekong Delta mostly improved vegetation greenness. The forest ...
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Thermoluminesence and Radiocarbon Dates in the Brick Structures of GoThap Site in the Lower Mekong Delta Basin
... of Mekong River - the longest river in south-eastern Asia and one of the longest in the ...Lower Mekong Delta in ...the Mekong system for food and livelihoods ...
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Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong region
... The Mekong river system, which supports the world’s largest inland ishery and constitutes the main source of animal pro- tein in the region, is fundamental to food security, especially in the Lower Mekong ...
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Trade integration of Thailand with Mekong region
... the Mekong region and advanced ASEAN, the international production networks would be more favorable in advanced ASEAN than in the Mekong region in terms of the service-link costs, whereas the differences in ...
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