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Land-to-the-tiller in the Mekong delta : economic, social and political effects of land reform in four villages of South Vietnam.
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ISBN: 0819132535 9780819132536 Year: 1983 Volume: 23 Publisher: Lanham (Md.) : University press of America,


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The Mekong
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ISBN: 1536183857 9781536183856 9781536181524 1536181528 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York

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"The Mekong: History, Geology and Environmental Issues first emphasizes how indigenous ecological views are affected by the rise of materialism, further investigating the discursive responses of the masses together with their fading ecology. The authors point out the potential threats of using MekD surface water of uncontrolled quality. Efficient economical water treatment technologies are identified for the provision of water of appropriate quality to rural households. Through the analysis of shrimp farmers' production process, one study argues that due to an unstable production environment, farmers in the Mekong Delta have always displayed risk mitigation as a rational response to the production setting. The concluding study aims to estimate the environmental efficiency of transformed shrimp farming through interviews with 90 farmers who recently shifted from sugarcane cultivation to mono-shrimp culture in Cu Lao Dung district, Soc Trang province"--


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Riverine operations, 1966-1969
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Dept. of the Army,

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Vietnam war river patrol : a U.S. gunboat captain returns to the Mekong Delta
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ISBN: 1476627428 Year: 2017 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,

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"As a 20-year-old gunboat captain and U.S. Navy diver in the Mekong Delta, the author was responsible for both the vessel and its crew. Forty years after the war, he returned as a tourist. This journal records his impressions of the Delta as seen first from a river patrol boat, then from a luxury cruise ship"--


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Environmental change and agricultural sustainability in the Mekong Delta
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ISBN: 9400709331 940070934X Year: 2011 Publisher: Dordrecht [The Netherlands] : Springer,

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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.

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Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia). --- Environmental management -- Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia). --- Sustainable agriculture -- Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia). --- Global environmental change --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Global environmental change. --- Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (Vietnam and Cambodia) --- Mekong Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) --- Mekong River --- Delta --- Environment. --- Business. --- Management science. --- History. --- Geography. --- Agriculture. --- Environment, general. --- Business and Management, general. --- Geography, general. --- History, general. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Trade --- Economics --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Change --- Ecology --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental science --- Science --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology


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The Khmer lands of Vietnam : environment, cosmology and sovereignty
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ISBN: 9788776941390 8776941396 9789971697785 9971697785 997169803X Year: 2014 Publisher: Copenhagen : Singapore : NIAS Press ; NUS Press,


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Border economies in the greater Mekong sub-region
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ISBN: 1349453986 1137302917 Year: 2013 Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan,

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A group of internationally recognised experts examine the recent trends of cross-border movements of people, goods and economic activity at fifteen major borders in the Greater Mekong Sub-region with the aim of predicting the long terms future for this region.


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Quagmire : nation-building and nature in the Mekong Delta
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ISBN: 0295990678 0295801549 9780295801544 9780295990675 Year: 2010 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,


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Living with uncertainty : social change and the Vietnamese family in the rural Mekong Delta
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ISBN: 9814620270 9814620297 Year: 2015 Publisher: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

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This book is one of the first ethnographies written on the life of farmers in rural Southern Vietnam since the economic reform in the 1980s. It investigates how social, economic and political factors affect the farmers' life in the Mekong Delta in the late socialist era with a particularly focus on the family, which serves as the basic and most significant social unit for the farmers. Dealing with classical anthropological topics of kinship and family, the book examines them as dynamic institutions. With vivid illustrations of the village life, family farming, education of children, jobs outside of farming and everyday politics, it presents new and different pictures of the current Vietnamese family under rapid social changes.

The book will contribute to the current ethnographical research in Vietnam and Southeast Asia and also be of particular interest to those working on society and culture in the geographical region from broader disciplines. It will also appeal to readers who are interested in such topics as late socialism, social transformation, and rural development.

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