Space And Environment In The Industrialising Mekong Delta

Author : Siwei Tan
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9783643907462

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Space and Environment in the Industrialising Mekong Delta by Siwei Tan Pdf

Industrial zones were only introduced to Vietnam in the 1990s, but even the agrarian Mekong Delta boasts of about 100 zones. What is their environmental impact? While missing capacity, financing, and regulation is the common diagnosis, this book reintroduces the structural features of the Vietnamese state and its economy into its analysis of wastewater management in the industrial zones. It reveals the socio-spatial effects of the Vietnamese state administration system and the State's utilisation of law and its ambiguities to express and facilitate multiple dimensions of socio-spatiality. Siwei Tan (LLB, MSc) holds a PhD in Geography. She is an assistant lecturer for environmental governance at the Department of Geography in University of Bonn. (Series: ZEF Development Studies, Vol. 30) [Subject: Vietnamese Studies, Economics, Politics, Law]

Author : Wolfram Laube,Aline R. B. Pereira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Mining law
ISBN : 9783643960955

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'Civilizing' Resource Investments and Extractivism by Wolfram Laube,Aline R. B. Pereira Pdf

Author : Fabrice G. Renaud,Claudia Kuenzer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400739628

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The Mekong Delta System by Fabrice G. Renaud,Claudia Kuenzer Pdf

This book about the Mekong Delta presents a unique collection of state-of-the-art contributions by international experts from different scientific disciplines about the characteristics and pressing water-related challenges of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The Mekong Delta belongs to one of the areas, which are to expect the largest challenges concerning environmental change and climate change induced sea level rise . The Delta acts as the “rice bowl” of Southeast Asia and is home to over 17 Million people, who need to cope with ecologic as well as socio-economic changes linked to the rapid economic development of the country. Annual floods, severe droughts, salt water intrusion, degrading water quality, tropical cyclones, hydrologic changes due to hydropower projects in the upstream of the Mekong, coastal erosion, and the loss of biodiversity are some of the problems in the region. Heterogeneous resource management responsibilities, and the fact that the Mekong – and thus also the Delta – is influenced by six countries aggravate the situation. Integrated water resources management and fostered cooperation and information exchange are pressing needs for the sustainable development of the Delta.

Author : Angelica Laura Lucia Wehrli
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643803689

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Vanishing Rice Fields by Angelica Laura Lucia Wehrli Pdf

The book delineates how the quest for wealth and belief manifests itself in contemporary Vietnam. Based on multi-local and longitudinal ethnographic research, the author examines how wealth is pursued by household members and entrepreneurs. The quest for belief is brought into relief through inquiry into how norms and values have been re-evaluated, altered, subverted or restored. Focusing on the taboo topic of female feticide, The study elucidates why some parents ultimately decide to commit feticide, and why others, especially entrepreneurs, refrain from it. The case of the entrepreneurs shows a possible way out of the "vicious circle" that leads to female feticide and perpetuates gender inequality.

Author : Charles Samuel Johnston,Xin Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000024890

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Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion by Charles Samuel Johnston,Xin Chen Pdf

The Mekong River is a vital and valuable resource, with huge development potential for the six states through which it flows. Given the significant asymmetry of power between those states, however, there is a real risk that some might utilise it to the detriment of others. Without a sense of regional belonging, it is difficult to imagine that these states and their constituent communities will take regional imperatives to heart, participate in joint regulatory frameworks, or adopt behaviours for upstream-downstream and lateral cooperation over the appropriation and use of their shared resources. How effectively has closer interdependence of the Mekong countries accommodated the development of a political-social-cultural space conducive to the growth of a regional "we-ness" among not only political elites, but also the general public? The contributors to this volume approach this question from a range of directions, including the impacts of tourism, regional development programmes, the Mekong Power Grid, and Sino-US rivalry. This edited volume presents valuable insights for scholars of international relations, Asian studies, development studies, environment studies, policy studies, and human geography.

Author : Cong Huu Pham
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643901675

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Floods and Farmers by Cong Huu Pham Pdf

The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is extremely vulnerable to floods and, therefore, the establishment of dike systems is generally considered an appropriate approach to flood control. Based on intensive field work in the heart of the Delta, this dissertation investigates current dike planning practices, as well as its implementation at district and commune levels. The research reveals numerous shortcomings with regard to planning and shows that the dike system also produces adverse negative impacts on the ecosystems and livelihoods. Dissertation. (Series: ZEF Development Studies - Vol. 18)

Author : Detlef Briesen,Vo Van Thang
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783736963634

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Mekong Delta Handbook (Band 1) by Detlef Briesen,Vo Van Thang Pdf

The Mekong Delta is the lowest section of the gigantic Mekong River. In a strictly geographical sense, the delta landscape already begins in Cambodia, but in international perception, Mekong Delta refers primarily to the actual estuary of the river, which drains into the sea on Vietnam’s territory via nine main branches and a labyrinth of natural and artificial waterways. Hence its Vietnamese name Sông Cửu Long (Nine Dragon River). The Mekong is one of the last largely unregulated and relatively unpolluted major rivers on the Asian mainland. Its value for the ecological diversity of the entire Southeast Asian region is inestimable and therefore all the more threatened by water pollution and gigantic dam projects. The Mekong Delta is, contrary to a perception often prevalent, a human-made environment. It was created in a process of conflict and cooperation between the peoples of the region that lasted at least three centuries. But the Mekong Delta is also threatened from another side, from the sea. The level of the world’s oceans is already rising due to global warming. We try to give an overview of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta from different scientific perspectives and for a broader audience. The book is an outcome of the very fruitful cooperation between Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany, and An Giang University in Long Xuyen, member of the National University of Vietnam, VNU, Ho Chi Minh City.

Author : David Andrew Biggs
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801544

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Quagmire by David Andrew Biggs Pdf

Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam’s turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history. Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s, colonial reclamation schemes and pacification efforts centered on the development of a dense network of new canals to open land for agriculture. These projects helped precipitate economic and environmental crises in the 1930s, and subsequent struggles after 1945 led to the balkanization of the delta into a patchwork of regions controlled by the Viet Minh, paramilitary religious sects, and the struggling Franco-Vietnamese government. After 1954, new settlements were built with American funds and equipment in a crash program intended to solve continuing economic and environmental problems. Finally, the American military collapse in Vietnam is revealed as not simply a failure of policy makers but also a failure to understand the historical, political, and environmental complexity of the spaces American troops attempted to occupy and control. By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape - channelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestation - have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1-UItZqsk

Author : Tuyet L. Cosslett,Patrick D. Cosslett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319021980

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Water Resources and Food Security in the Vietnam Mekong Delta by Tuyet L. Cosslett,Patrick D. Cosslett Pdf

The Mekong River has been a main source of conquest, conflict, and cooperation in the Southeast Asian region. Much has been written on the vital and critical importance of the Mekong River fresh water to the sustainable economic development of the Mekong Delta. This book selects the Mekong Delta as a case study of regional cooperation for water and food security for not only for Vietnam but also for the world in a new century of global economy. It focuses not only on the Mekong Delta as an integral part of the River but also on Can Tho City and its 12 provinces that produce over 50 percent of the country’s rice output and 60 percent of total fishery output. The book takes a micro approach to examine how each province is adapting to the twin threats of mainstream dams construction and climate change, reducing fresh water flows and increasing saline infusions on its present and future economy. Finally, it reviews the roles of international institutional arrangements, namely the Mekong Committee and the Mekong River Commission, in promoting regional cooperation among the riparian states for political and economic development of the Mekong Delta.

Author : Mart A. Stewart,Peter A. Coclanis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319904009

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Water and Power by Mart A. Stewart,Peter A. Coclanis Pdf

This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world’s greatest rivers and, alas, one of the most endangered. The book is divided into three sections devoted in turn to historical perspectives on the Lower Mekong Basin. Issues relate to livelihood strategies, environmental threats, and adaptation strategies; and various aspects of river governance, with individual authors treating questions of governance at different levels of refraction and in different registers. The result is a fresh and innovative collection of essays, which, taken together, provide much-needed new perspectives on some of the most important and seemingly intractable environmental and development issues in contemporary Asia.

Author : Vo Thanh Danh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811500855

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Groundwater and Environment Policies for Vietnam’s Mekong Delta by Vo Thanh Danh Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of groundwater uses and environmental issues in the Mekong Delta. It focuses on groundwater pollution and use, urban flooding, living with flood policy, and climate change-related adaptation measures. The Mekong Delta is facing these serious issues in the course of its development. This book uses economic analysis methods such as risk cost benefit analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, contingent valuation method, economic loss valuation, and multi criteria analysis to provide policy makers and researchers a better understanding of issues faced by sea level rise-impacted regions around the world and provide possible solutions. Students of environmental economics, economic valuation, and public policy can use this work to enhance their analytical skills.

Author : Joep Janssen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9075271948

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Living with the Mekong by Joep Janssen Pdf

Author : Simone Marseau
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1536183857

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The Mekong: History, Geology and Environmental Issues by Simone Marseau Pdf

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.

Author : Hong Quan Nguyen,Heiko Apel,Quang Bao Le,Minh Tu Nguyen,Venkataramana Sridhar
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323914505

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The Mekong River Basin by Hong Quan Nguyen,Heiko Apel,Quang Bao Le,Minh Tu Nguyen,Venkataramana Sridhar Pdf

The Mekong River Basin: Ecohydrological Complexity from Catchment to Coast, Volume Three presents real facts, data and predictions for quantifying human-induced changes throughout the Mekong watershed, including its estuaries and coasts, and proposes solutions to decrease or mitigate the negative effect and enable sustainable development. This is the first work to link socio–ecological interaction study over the whole Mekong River basin through the lens of ecohydrology. Each chapter is written by a leading expert, with coverage on climate change, groundwater, land use, flooding drought, biodiversity and anthropological issues. Human activities are enormous in the whole watershed and are still increasing throughout the catchment, with severe negative impacts on natural resources are emerging. Among these activities, hydropower dams, especially a series of 11 dams in China, are the most critical as they generate massive changes throughout the system, including in the delta and to the livelihoods of millions of people and they threaten sustainability. Presents an extensive collection of eco-hydrological changes in the river basin driven by both nature and anthropological factors Provides state of the art modeling, data analysis methodologies for complex socio-ecological complexity applied in the Mekong river basin Includes specific cases of ecohydrology in the river basin, especially from the Mekong delta

Author : Vo Quoc Thanh
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000416305

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Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in the Mekong Delta by Vo Quoc Thanh Pdf

This research aims to investigate the prevailing sediment dynamics and the sediment budget in the Mekong Delta by using a process-based model. Understanding sediment dynamics for the Mekong Delta requires high resolution analysis and detailed data, which is a challenge for managers and scientists. This study introduces such an approach and focuses on modeling the entire system with a process-based approach with Delft3D-4 and Delft3D Flexible Mesh (DFM). The first model is used to explore sediment dynamics at the coastal zone. The latter model allows straightforward coupling of 1D and 2D grids, making it suitable for analyzing the complex river and canal network of the Mekong Delta. The validated model suggests that the Mekong Delta receives ~99 Mt/year sediment from the Mekong River. This is much lower than the common estimate of 160 Mt/year. Only about 23% of the modelled total sediment load at Kratie is exported to the sea. The remaining portion is trapped in the rivers and floodplains of the Mekong Delta. The results advance understanding of sediment dynamics and sediment budget in the Mekong Delta. As such the model is an efficient tool to support delta management and planning.