Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stewart, Mart A. (Editor), Coclanis, Peter A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 45
• Subjects: Environment.; Business.; Management science.; History.; Geography.; Agriculture.; Environment, general.; Business and Management, general.; Geography, general.; History, general.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Mart A. Stewart and Peter A. Coclanis
• I Environmental Change in the Mekong Delta – Actions and Agencies
• II Social and Economic Dynamics
• III  Consequences of Environmental Change
• IV Human Responses to Environmental Change
• Conclusions.