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In Following the Proper Channels: Tributaries in the Mekong Legal Regime , Bennett Bearden offers in-depth policy and legal analyses of the marginalization of tributaries in the context of the 1995 Agreement on the Cooperation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin, law of international watercourses, hydrosovereignty, and the national economic development interests of the Mekong riparians. As a problem-based study, enlightening conclusions are made based on the increasingly state-centric nature of water resources management in the Mekong region through pursuit of national agendas in the unilateral and bilateral development of tributaries. The overarching legal and hydropolicy issue is whether states can simultaneously pursue hydrosovereignty on tributaries and ensure the Mekong legal regime’s efficacy to achieve holistic water resources management and basin-wide governance.

Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Public utilities --- Water utilities --- Law and legislation --- Mekong River Watershed --- Mekong River Basin --- International status.

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The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows through 6 counties, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The 4 downstream countries have formed the Mekong River Commission to promote sustainable development of the river and many of their people depend on it for their subsistence ? it has possible the largest freshwater fishery in the world, and the Mekong waters support rice agriculture in the delta in Viet Nam (which produces about 40% of that country's food) as well as in Cambodia, Laos and Thail

Aquatic ecology - Mekong River Watershed. --- Aquatic ecology -- Mekong River Watershed. --- Environmental management - Mekong River Watershed - International cooperation. --- Environmental management -- Mekong River Watershed -- International cooperation. --- Mekong River Watershed - Environmental conditions. --- Mekong River Watershed -- Environmental conditions. --- Natural history - Mekong River Watershed. --- Natural history -- Mekong River Watershed. --- Physical geology - Mekong River Watershed. --- Physical geology -- Mekong River Watershed. --- Environmental management --- Natural history --- Physical geology --- Aquatic ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- International cooperation --- Aquatic biology --- Ecology --- Geology --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Mekong River Watershed --- Environmental conditions. --- Mekong River Basin

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The predicted climate change is likely to cause extreme storm events and, subsequently, catastrophic disasters, including soil erosion, debris and landslide formation, loss of life, etc. In the decade from 1976, natural disasters affected less than a billion lives. These numbers have surged in the last decade alone. It is said that natural disasters have affected over 3 billion lives, killed on average 750,000 people, and cost more than 600 billion US dollars. Of these numbers, a greater proportion are due to sediment-related disasters, and these numbers are an indication of the amount of work still to be done in the field of soil erosion, conservation, and landslides. Scientists, engineers, and planners are all under immense pressure to develop and improve existing scientific tools to model erosion and landslides and, in the process, better conserve the soil. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to improve our knowledge on the processes and mechanics of soil erosion and landslides. In turn, these will be crucial in developing the right tools and models for soil and water conservation, disaster mitigation, and early warning systems.

landslide --- image classification --- spectrum similarity analysis --- extreme rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility model --- landslide ratio-based logistic regression --- landslide evolution --- Typhoon Morakot --- Taiwan --- vegetation community --- vegetation importance value --- root system --- soil erosion --- grey correlation analysis --- sediment yield --- RUSLE --- Lancang–Mekong River basin --- rainfall threshold --- landslide probability model --- debris flow --- Zechawa Gully --- mitigation countermeasures --- Jiuzhaigou Valley --- water erosion --- susceptibility --- Gaussian process --- climate change --- radial basis function kernel --- weighted subspace random forest --- extreme events --- extreme weather --- naive Bayes --- feature selection --- machine learning --- hydrologic model --- simulated annealing --- earth system science --- PSED Model --- loess --- ICU --- static liquefaction --- mechanical behavior --- pore structure --- alpine swamp meadow --- alpine meadow --- degradation of riparian vegetation --- root distribution --- tensile strength --- tensile crack --- soil management --- land cover changes --- Syria --- hillslopes --- gully erosion --- vegetation restoration --- soil erodibility --- land use --- bridge pier --- overfall --- scour --- landform change impact on pier --- shallow water equations --- wet-dry front --- outburst flood --- TVD-scheme --- MUSCL-Hancock method --- laboratory model test --- extreme rainfall --- rill erosion --- shallow landslides --- deep lip surface --- safety factor --- rainfall erosivity factor --- USLE R --- Deep Neural Network --- tree ring --- dendrogeomorphology --- landslide activity --- deciduous broadleaved tree --- Shirakami Mountains --- spatiotemporal cluster analysis --- landslide hotspots --- dam breach --- seepage --- overtopping --- seismic signal --- flume test --- breach model --- n/a --- Lancang-Mekong River basin

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Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and governance rules. However, explicitly or not, water conflicts nearly always also involve disputes among different philosophical views. The contributions to this edited volume have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualisation, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. The special issue has explored the following core questions: Which philosophies and claims on mega-hydraulic projects are encountered, and how are they shaped, validated, negotiated and contested in concrete contexts? Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is downplayed in water development conflict situations, and how have different epistemic communities and cultural-political identities shaped practices of design, planning and construction of dams and mega-hydraulic projects? The contributions have also scrutinised how these epistemic communities interactively shape norms, rules, beliefs and values about water problems and solutions, including notions of justice, citizenship and progress that are subsequently to become embedded in material artefacts.

n/a --- politicized collective identity --- first nations --- socio-technical imaginaries --- dam --- political ecology --- STS --- irrigation --- contested knowledge --- negotiation --- Guatemala --- social construction of technology --- indigenous peoples --- multi-actor multi-scalar alliances --- vernacular statecraft --- compensation measures --- modernist traditions --- hydropower development --- agonistic unity --- Ecuador --- anti-dam resistance movements --- fantasy --- environmental governance --- collective action --- modernity --- depoliticization --- British Columbia --- hydraulic utopia --- A.O. Hirschman --- megadams --- India --- Canada --- hiding hand --- large dams --- Jacques Lacan --- commensuration --- DR Congo --- Málaga --- technological design --- Peru --- knowledge systems --- manufactured ignorance --- knowledge politics --- Himalayas --- San Lorenzo irrigation project --- politics of the governed --- North Sikkim --- uncertainty --- Bolivia --- hydrosocial territory --- psychoanalysis --- marginalization --- territorial control --- mega-dam --- hazard risk --- UnGovernance --- hydropolitics --- expectations --- power --- socioenvironmental impacts --- socio-economic impacts --- public knowledge controversies --- mega-hydraulic projects --- hydropower --- environmental impacts --- Site C --- knowledge encounters --- dam safety --- Dzumsa --- energy policy --- anti-dam movement --- hydroelectric megaprojects --- Spain --- hydraulic projects --- Chixoy irrigation project --- co-creation --- Mekong River Basin --- dehumanizing rationality --- hydroelectric development --- Inga --- territory --- knowledge arenas --- Málaga

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Climate change and land use transformations have induced an increased flood risk worldwide. These phenomena are dramatically impacting ordinary life and the economy. Research and technology offer a new strategy to quantify and predict such phenomena and also mitigate the impact of flooding. In particular, the growing computational power is offering new strategies for a more detailed description of the flooding over large scales. This book offers an overview of the most recent outcomes of the research on this argument.

climate change --- flood hazards --- high-resolution AGCM --- inundation analysis --- Lower Mekong river basin --- data assimilation --- ensemble Kalman filter --- flood inundation maps --- National Water Model (NWM) --- countermeasures --- flood impacts --- Metro Colombo canal system --- Colombo city, Sri Lanka --- urban floods --- near real-time --- Mekong Basin --- hydro-economic --- socioeconomic --- damage assessment --- hydroinformatics --- EU Floods Directive --- flood risk management --- extreme rainfall --- SCS-CN --- 2D hydraulic modelling --- HEC-RAS --- building representation --- ungauged streams --- uncertainty --- IDF curves --- Bayesian analysis --- Non-Stationary process --- open-access remotely sensed data --- flood mapping and modelling --- altimetry --- synthetic aperture radar --- optical satellite --- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) --- and transboundary floods --- flood --- remote sensing --- data integration --- RST-FLOOD --- MODIS --- VIIRS --- optical data --- flood mapping --- flood monitoring --- floodplains --- rivers dynamics --- DEM-based methods --- geomorphology --- data scarce environments --- DTM --- terrain analysis --- hydraulic geometry --- large scale --- 2D hydraulic modeling --- scaling in hydrology