scholarly journals SOME SOLUTIONS TO RESPOND CLIMATE CHANGE FOR THE MEKONG DELTA, VIET NAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thuy Lan Chi ◽  
Phan Dao ◽  
Microslav Kyncl
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract In the recent decades, the Mekong River Delta has suffered quite significant impacts of climate change. Fluctuations of weather elements and sea level rises have caused adverse changes, namely: the appearance of unusual high and low levels of annual floods, more and more intense storms, more severe droughts, forest fires, river erosion, cyclones, and tidal surges appear increasingly more dangerous. Traditional adaptation measures to the environmental conditions may be unsuitable in the context of climate change in the Mekong River Delta. This paper summarizes some of the new adaptation measures that scientists and policy planners have proposed for the area to cope with the negative impacts of climate change.

Climate change impacts on rice productivity in the Mekong River Delta

2019 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Kontgis ◽  
Annemarie Schneider ◽  
Mutlu Ozdogan ◽  
Christopher Kucharik ◽  
Van Pham Dang Tri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Rice Productivity

scholarly journals Archaeological Sites of the Mekong Delta and the Oc Eo Culture: a review

2020 ◽  
pp. 209-230
Author(s):  
A.O. Zakharov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Complexity ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
First Millennium

The Mekong River Delta has many archaeological sites dated from the first to seventh centuries CE. They include the Oc Eo site and more than ninety sites in the territory of Vietnam. Another site of the Oc Eo archaeological culture is Angkor Borei in Cambodia. The early first millennium remains also include ancient canals which connected Angkor Borei and Oc Eo as well as few other sites. The early Iron Age predates the beginning of the Oc Eo culture in the first centuries CE. The Iron Age witnessed the growing social complexity and settlement hierarchy. The paper is an overview of archaeological investigations in the Mekong River Delta. The paper shows the deep Indian or Indic influences on the material and religious life of the ancient populations of the Mekong Delta.

Relationship between flood severity and risk of hospitalisation in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam

2021 ◽  
pp. oemed-2021-107768
Author(s):  
Dung T Phung ◽  
Joshua L Warren ◽  
Cordia Ming-Yeuk Chu ◽  
Robert Dubrow
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Disease ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Exposure Period ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Rate Ratios

ObjectiveTo examine the relationship between flood severity and risk of hospitalisation in the Vietnam Mekong River Delta (MRD).MethodsWe obtained data on hospitalisations and hydro-meteorological factors during 2011–2014 for seven MRD provinces. We classified each day into a flood-season exposure period: the 2011 extreme annual flood (EAF); 2012–2014 routine annual floods (RAF); dry season and non-flood wet season (reference period). We used province-specific Poisson regression models to calculate hospitalisation incidence rate ratios (IRRs). We pooled IRRs across provinces using random-effects meta-analysis.ResultsDuring the EAF, non-external cause hospitalisations increased 7.2% (95% CI 3.2% to 11.4%); infectious disease hospitalisations increased 16.4% (4.3% to 29.8%) and respiratory disease hospitalisations increased 25.5% (15.5% to 36.4%). During the RAF, respiratory disease hospitalisations increased 8.2% (3.2% to 13.5%). During the dry season, hospitalisations decreased for non-external causes and for each specific cause except injuries.ConclusionsWe observed a gradient of decreasing risk of hospitalisation from EAF to RAF/non-flood wet season to dry season. Adaptation measures should be strengthened to prepare for the increased probability of more frequent extreme floods in the future, driven by climate change.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Initiatives and Adaptation Measures To Climate Change Undertaken in Poland and Eastern EU Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-115
Author(s):  
Dorota Michalak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change is one of the greatest contemporary threats to our planet’s environmental, social and economic condition. It is accompanied by massive changes in life support systems on Earth, where its far‑reaching effects will be felt in the upcoming decades. The development of a national adaptation policy (strategy and/or plan) serves as an instrument that provides the necessary framework for adaptation by coordinating the consideration of climate change across relevant sectors, geographical scales, and levels of decision making. The purpose of this paper is to compare the degree of influence of climate change on the economy of the Eastern European Union and compare national strategies for adaptation to climate change in selected countries of Western Europe and Poland. The study shows that countries bearing the brunt of the negative impacts of climate change are Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria and Poland. These countries recorded the highest climate change index, the greatest losses in terms of estimated GDP, household welfare, land losses, and lower incomes in the agricultural and tourism sectors. With appropriate adaptation measures, countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia can take advantage of the future changes in weather conditions. A shift in the productivity of the agricultural sector and tourism from south to north can be noted.

scholarly journals Ancient canals of the Mekong River Delta: a review

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-211
Author(s):  
A.O. Zakharov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mekong Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

The paper offers an overview of recent archaeological excavations of ancient canals in the Mekong River Delta. These canals have been known since the thirties when the French scholar Pierre Paris had made aerial photographic pictures of the Delta. In the late twentieth to early twenty first centuries, the canals of the Mekong Delta were investigated by the American, French, and Vietnamese archaeologists. The canals were built during the first centuries CE where the great port-polity of Funan flourished on the international trade routes which connected East, Southeast, East and West Asia, as well as the Mediterranean world. The canals of the Mekong Delta belong to the Oc Eo culture. These remnants of the past vary in planning and sometimes seem to testify the Indian or Indic influence on local culture.

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