Groundwater and Environment Policies for Vietnam's Mekong Delta

• Main Author: Danh, Vo Thanh (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Environmental economics.; Environmental policy.; Environmental Economics.; Environmental Policy.

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 cour...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Economic Analysis Methods for Natural Resource and Environmental Policies
• 3. Drinking Water Options in the Context of Arsenic Contamination
• 4. Groundwater uses and Management
• 5. An Economic Valuation of Groundwater Protection
• 6. A Risk cost benefit analysis framework under climate change-related disasters
• 7. Household economic losses of urban flooding
• 8. An Evaluation of living with flood policy
• 9. Conclusion and a look forward.