Research Catalog

Title

The water-food-energy nexus in the Mekong Region : assessing development strategies considering cross-sectoral and transboundary impacts / Alexander Smajgl, John Ward.

Author

Smajgl, Alexander, 1971-

Publication

New York : Springer, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Ward, John.
• Ward, John

Description

xi, 231 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investments in the wider Mekong Region. The wider Mekong Region includes Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and the Chinese Province of Yunnan. This book gives important insight into how future sustainability will depend on the development of effective governance mechanisms at the level of the Mekong region.

Subjects

• Rural development > Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
• Sustainable development > Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
• Human ecology > Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
• Water resources development > Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
• Energy development > Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
• Agricultural development projects > Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
• Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) > Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mekong Region Connectivity / Alex Smajgl, John Ward -- Water Sector Analysis / Sokhem Pech -- Food Security in the Wider Mekong Region / David Fullbrook -- Impacts of Natural Resource-Led Development on the Mekong Energy System / Tira Foran -- Livelihoods and Migration / Lilao Bouapao -- Land-Use Change in the Mekong Region / Lu Xing -- Mining in the Mekong Region / Kate Lazarus -- Cross-Sectoral Assessment / Alex Smajgl, John Ward.

ISBN

• 9781461461197
• 1461461197

OCLC

• 817549576
• SCSB-11000996

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library