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Mekong Delta, its Position in the Mekong Basin Plan as a Whole

open access: yesJapanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1975
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The Mekong Delta

Journal of Macromarketing, 2011
The Mekong Delta is the agricultural heart of Vietnam and home to nearly 20 million people. Its contributions to the entire country and global food consumers are enormous. The Delta’s delicate ecosystem, however, is distressed by several domestic and regional forces, including rural development, resource mismanagement, upstream damming, climate change,
David Dapice, Vo Tong Xuan
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The Mekong Delta

2013
The Mekong River Delta within Vietnam is located at the southern tip of the country and is described as a vast triangular plain of about 40,519 square kilometers (km2), accounting for 12.24 % of the Vietnam’s total area of 331,051 km2. One side of the triangle forms the border with Cambodia to the north, and the other two sides are surrounded by the ...
Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett
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COASTAL MANGROVE SQUEEZE IN THE MEKONG DELTA

The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2015, 2015
ABSTRACT Phan, L.K.; van Thiel de Vries, J.S.M., and Stive, M.J.F., 2015. Coastal mangrove squeeze in the Mekong Delta. The role of mangrove forests in providing coastal zone stability and protection against flooding is increasingly recognized. The specific root, stem, and canopy system of mangroves is highly efficient in attenuating waves and currents.
Linh K. Phan   +2 more
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The Mekong Delta Provinces

2013
Can Tho City and the 12 provinces of the Mekong Delta are the key producers of rice and seafood providing more than 50 % of food security and exports for the entire country. Today, the main concerns of these two industries are the future supply of fresh water into the Delta given the changing climate, upstream dam construction, and increased water use ...
Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett
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Biodiversity of the Mekong Delta

2012
Although the Mekong Delta has been substantially modified by humans, primarily to support rice-based agriculture, it still supports a diverse biota, albeit a small fraction of what must have been there prior to human settlement. While there only two mammals of conservation significance, the Hairy-nosed Otter and the Dugong, remaining in the delta there
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