TY - BOOK ID - 7614952 TI - Environmental change and agricultural sustainability in the Mekong Delta AU - Stewart, Mart A. AU - Coclanis, Peter A. PY - 2011 SN - 9400709331 940070934X PB - Dordrecht [The Netherlands] : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia). KW - Environmental management -- Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia). KW - Sustainable agriculture -- Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia). KW - Global environmental change KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Global environmental change. KW - Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) KW - Environmental change, Global KW - Global change, Environmental KW - Global environmental changes KW - Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (Vietnam and Cambodia) KW - Mekong Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) KW - Mekong River KW - Delta KW - Environment. KW - Business. KW - Management science. KW - History. KW - Geography. KW - Agriculture. KW - Environment, general. KW - Business and Management, general. KW - Geography, general. KW - History, general. KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Cosmography KW - Earth sciences KW - World history KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Quantitative business analysis KW - Management KW - Problem solving KW - Operations research KW - Statistical decision KW - Trade KW - Economics KW - Commerce KW - Industrial management KW - Change KW - Ecology KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Environmental science KW - Science KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7614952 AB - The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.  The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course of many millennia has produced a region of fertile alluvial soils and constant flows of energy.  Today about a fourth of the Delta is under rice cultivation, making this area one of the premier rice granaries in the world.  The Delta has always proven a difficult environment to manipulate, however, and because of population pressures, increasing acidification of soils, and changes in the Mekong’s flow, environmental problems have intensified.   The changing way in which the region has been linked to larger flows of commodities and capital over time has also had an impact on the region: For example, its re-emergence in recent decades as a major rice-exporting area has linked it inextricably to global markets and their vicissitudes.  And most recently, the potential for sea level increases because of global warming has added a new threat.  Because most of the region is on average only a few meters above sea level and because any increase of sea level will change the complex relationship between tides and down-river water flow, the Mekong Delta is one of the areas in the world most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.  How governmental policy and resident populations have in the past and will in coming decades adapt to climate change as well as several other emerging or ongoing environmental and economic problems is the focus of this collection. ER -