| Titre : | AMBIO 37(3) - MAY 2008 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
Dépouillements
Article
Dirk Larnberts, Auteur ;
Jorma Koponen, Auteur
Tonle Sap Lake is a large and complex data-deficient ecosystem in the Mekong River Basin. Highly valuable in biodiversity and natural livelihoods capital, it is susceptible to degradation when the flood pulse that drives its productivity is alte[...]
Article
Dan Penny, Auteur
The wetlands of the lower Mekong River Basin are ecologically and socioeconomically significant, but they are threatened by predicted climatic change. The likely response of wetland ecosystems to altered flooding regimes and surface-water chemis[...]
Article
Matti Kummu, Auteur ;
Dan Penny, Auteur ;
Juha Sarkkula, Auteur ;
Jorma Koponen, Auteur
It has been claimed that Tonle Sap Lake is rapidly filling with sediment as a result of increasing sediment yields from the catchment. Infilling of the lake basin would have serious implications for the magnitude of flooding in central Cambodia [...]
Article
Olli Varis, Auteur
Poverty reduction decorates all development agendas, but the complexity of the poverty issue is too often hidden behind simplistic indicators and development goals. Here, a closer look is taken at the concepts of "deprivation" and "vulnerability[...]
Article
Matti Kummu, Auteur ;
Marko Keskinen, Auteur ;
Olli Varis, Auteur
Article
Sokhem Pech, Auteur ;
Kengo Sunada, Auteur
The Mekong River Basin possesses the region's largest potential water source and related resources, which support ongoing economic development and basin community livelihoods. It is currently witnessing a major demographic transition that is cre[...]
Article
Mira Kakonen, Auteur
Development in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam has been very dynamic in the recent past, and currently it stands at an interesting crossroads. On one hand, agricultural production has developed successfully, and economic growth has been very rapid, [...]
Article
Marko Keskinen, Auteur
The Mekong River Basin is facing rapid changes, including intensive plans for water development. While the different development projects are considered to be important for economic development, the negative impacts that they are likely to cause[...]
Article
Shaojuan Li, Auteur ;
Daming He, Auteur
Environmental changes and their transboundary influences on the Mekong watercourse system have been an international research focus in recent years, but the opinions and results related to the impacts of upper Mekong River dams are quite differe[...]
Article
Des E. Walling, Auteur
The sediment loads of many of the world's major rivers have changed significantly in recent years due to land-use change, reservoir construction, and other human impacts on their drainage basins. For many rivers, the loads have decreased, wherea[...]
Article
Olli Varis, Auteur ;
Marko Keskinen, Auteur ;
Matti Kummu, Auteur
The Mekong region is undergoing rapid transitions, socially, economically, and environmentally. Economies are stabilizing after the political turbulence of the last several decades, and development pressures as well as ambitions are vast. Water [...]
Article
Petrina Rowcroft, Auteur
Land-use change processes are commonly understood as simplified cause-effect relationships, which, in turn, support many environment-development policies. This paper uses wide-ranging evidence from a number of global case studies to challenge so[...]
Article
Francois Molle, Auteur ;
Philippe Floch, Auteur
Large-scale development of irrigation has long been an attractive option of postwar development, and the Mekong region has been no exception. Thailand has developed approximately four million hectares of irrigated land, and its northeastern regi[...]
Article
Matti Kummu, Auteur ;
Juha Sarkkula, Auteur
Rapid development in the upper reaches of the Mekong River, in the form of construction of large hydropower dams and reservoirs, large irrigation schemes, and rapid urban development, is putting water resources under stress. Recent studies have [...]
