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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Mekong
    sub title: biophysical environment of an international river basin
  name:
    name part: Campbell, Ian C.
    name part: 1950-
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York, NY
    publisher: Academic Press
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
  abstract: The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows through 6 counties, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The 4 downstream countries have formed the Mekong River Commission to promote sustainable development of the river and many of their people depend on it for their subsistence? it has possible the largest freshwater fishery in the world, and the Mekong waters support rice agriculture in the delta in Viet Nam (which produces about 40% of that country's food) as well as in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. China is now building the first large mainstream dam on the river, and has proposals for several more. These dams are likely to affect the downstream countries. Several of the downstream countries also have plans for large scale hydropower and irrigation development which could also impact the river. This book will provide a solid overview of the biophysical environment of the Mekong together with a discussion of the possible impacts, biophysical, economic and social, of some possible development scenarios. It is intended to provide a technical basis which can inform the growing political and conservation debate about the future of the Mekong River, and those who depend on it. It is aimed at river ecologists, geographers, environmentalists and development specialists both in the basin and (especially) outside for whom access to this material is most difficult. This book will be the first comprehensive treatment of the Mekong system Key Features *The first comprehensive overview of all aspects of the Mekong River system. *Deals with a regionally critical ecosystem and one under threat. *The Mekong supports the world's largest freshwater fishery and provides water underpinning a major regional rice paddy system. * Presents the authoritative findings of the Mekong River Commission's research for a wider audience for the first time outside of limited distribution reports.
  table of contents: Introduction -- I.C. Campbell -- The Geology of the Lower Mekong River -- Paul A. Carling -- Geology of Landforms of the Mekong Basin -- Avijit Gupta -- The Hydrology of the Mekong River -- Peter T. Adamson, Ian D. Rutherfurd, Murray C. Peel, Iwona A. Conlan -- Geomorphology and Sedimentology of the Lower Mekong River -- Paul A. Carling -- The Sediment Load of the Mekong River -- Des E. Walling -- Vegetation in the Mekong Basin -- Philip W. Rundel -- Fish Diversity in the Mekong River Basin -- John Valbo-Jorgensen, David Coates, Kent Hortle -- Fisheries of the Mekong River Basin -- Kent G. Hortle -- Tonle Sap Lake, the Heart of the Lower Mekong -- I.C. Campbell, S. Say, J. Beardall -- Mekong Schistosomiasis: Where Did It Come from and Where Is It Going? -- Water Quality of the Lower Mekong River -- Edwin D. Ongley -- The Development and Application of Biomonitoring in the Lower Mekong River System -- I.C. Campbell, Bruce C. Chessman, Vincent H. Resh -- Watercourse Environmental Change in Upper Mekong -- Daming He, Ying Lu, Zhiguo Li, Shaojuan Li -- Conserving Dolphins in the Mekong River: The Complex Challenge of Competing Interests -- Isabel Beasley, Helene Marsh, Thomas A. Jefferson, Peter Arnold -- Development Scenarios and Mekong River Flows -- I.C. Campbell -- The Challenges for Mekong River Management -- I.C. Campbell.
  note: edited by Ian C. Campbell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
  subject:
    geographic code: ag-----
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
    geographic: Mekong River Watershed
    topic: International cooperation
  subject:
    geographic: Mekong River Watershed
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    topic: Natural history
    geographic: Mekong River Watershed
  subject:
    topic: Physical geology
    geographic: Mekong River Watershed
  subject:
    topic: Aquatic ecology
    geographic: Mekong River Watershed
  subject:
    topic: Gouvernance internationale en matière d'environnement
    geographic: Mékong, Bassin du
  subject:
    geographic: Mékong, Bassin du
    topic: Conditions environnementales
  subject:
    topic: Sciences naturelles
    geographic: Mékong, Bassin du
  subject:
    topic: Géologie physique
    geographic: Mékong, Bassin du
  subject:
    topic: Aquatic ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
    topic: International cooperation
  subject:
    topic: Natural history
  subject:
    topic: Physical geology
  subject:
    geographic: Mekong River Watershed
  subject:
    topic: Aquatisches Ökosystem
  subject:
    topic: Hydrobiologe
  subject:
    topic: Ökosystemmanagement
  subject:
    geographic: Mekong
  classification: GE320.M47 M45 2009
  classification: 333.91/62130959
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  access condition: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 100225
    record change date: 20260326163922.9
    record identifier: in00005739393
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng