Climate change in Viet Nam, Impacts and adaptation

342 I PART 3 I THE MEKONG EMERGENCY

1. Introduction The Mekong is one of the largest rivers in the world [ MRC, 2010 ]. It rises in Tibet, China, flows through five riparian countries over 4800 km, and draining a catchment area of 795,000 km2 [ MRC, 2005 ], before dividing into several branches in a delta and reaching the East Sea [ Figure 7.1 ].

With its flat and low-elevation delta plain [ Minderhoud et al., 2019 ], Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta (VMD) is highly sensitive to hydrological changes and global sea level rise, and therefore appears to be a “hotspot” of climate change impacts. It covers an area of about 4 million hectares, crossed by a complex network of rivers and canals [ Figure 7.2 ], and is currently home to 17 million inhabitants, i.e. about

Climate change in Viet Nam, Impacts and adaptation

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4. Climate change adaptation strategies with modelling approach

2. Environmental change and climate change adaptation in the Mekong Delta

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5. Main conclusions and policy implications

3. Salt intrusion

4. The delta’s future

2. Delta Elevation

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in the Mekong countries

3. Business as usual or transformation: Water diplomacy in the Mekong region

2. National and regional governance structures of transboundary resources

1. Climate change in the Mekong region, a potential catalyst for socio-ecological imbalances

2. Geological and hydrological characteristics of the Delta

5. Discussion and conclusions

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4. Anthropogenic pressures

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6. Conclusions and Recommendations

8. Policy implications

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4. Assessment of climate change’s impacts on energy system

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3. Assessment of climate change’s impacts on hydropower production

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4. The impacts of climate change on nutrition and food security

5. Adapting agriculture while reducing emissions

3. Projections of the reduction of crop area in the Mekong Delta

1. Viet Nam agriculture Past and present

2. Predicted agriculture productivity under climate stressors

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3. Impacts of cold and heat waves on mortality

4. Main conclusions and policy implications

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4. Contemporary climate history

3. Climate history of Viet Nam via the Imperial Annals

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4. Conclusions

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2. What is climate history? Ancient and modern approaches

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