Development and Climate Change in the Mekong Region – Case Studies
This book brings together multi-country case studies examining how development and climate change are affecting natural resources, livelihoods, and governance across the Mekong Region. It highlights challenges and lessons in resource management, sustainable development, and linking collaborative research with policy and planning.
This book brings together a new set of multi-country empirical case studies that contribute to the understanding the complexities of development and resource governance in the context of climate change in the Mekong Region. The chapters identify lessons for engaging with policy and planning process in the region in ways that support pursuit of regional sustainability from the research efforts of the Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET).
This book will help readers better understand the range and intensity of these environmental issues including the impacts of climate change and help support solutions at local, national and transboundary levels towards addressing these critical environmental and development challenges in the Mekong Region.
Each study involved seeking the input and involvement of actors at all levels, from individual farmers, fishers and rural households to policymakers and government administrators, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations, and local academic experts.
This book brings together a new set of multi-country empirical case studies that contribute to the understanding the complexities of development and resource governance in the context of climate change in the Mekong Region. The chapters identify lessons for engaging with policy and planning process in the region in ways that support pursuit of regional sustainability from the research efforts of the Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET).
This book will help readers better understand the range and intensity of these environmental issues including the impacts of climate change and help support solutions at local, national and transboundary levels towards addressing these critical environmental and development challenges in the Mekong Region.
Each study involved seeking the input and involvement of actors at all levels, from individual farmers, fishers and rural households to policymakers and government administrators, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations, and local academic experts.
