Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region

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Authors/ Editors Alexis DROGOUL graduated in Artificial Intelligence in 1990 and received his PhD from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) in 1993. Recruited in 1995 as associate professor, he became full professor in 2000 and joined the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD, french National Research Institute for Sustainable Development) as a senior researcher in 2004. Author of more than 200 research articles, he works on the computer simulation of complex socioenvironmental systems, and developed the GAMA software platform (http://gama-platform.org). Since 2007, he has been working in Vietnam to enhance the research capacity of Vietnamese teams (in Vietnam National University, Can Tho University, the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, and Thuy Loi University) on the design of models for environmental decisionsupport and adaptation to climate change, in the framework of several international research projects. In addition, he has been an IRD representative in Vietnam and the Philippines since 2017. Étienne ESPAGNE is a senior economist at the agence française de Développement (AFD, French Development Agency), the bilateral development bank for the French government. He develops and contributes to a research program on the modelization and evaluation of climate damages, adaptation, and mitigation strategies in developing and emerging economies, especially in Southeast Asian countries. He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and is also a graduate from the École des Mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech) and the École d’économie de Paris (PSE, Paris School of Economics). He has published several academic papers in the field of climate change and energy economics and regularly teaches at Paris 1 University, EHESS, École Polytechnique, Paris Dauphine University, and ENSTA Paristech. He previously worked at France Stratégie, CEPII, and CIRED. HUYNH Thi Phuong Linh is currently an IRD research associate in Hanoi, Vietnam and frequent trainer as part of the Erasmus+ WANASEA project (“Strengthen the production, management and outreach capacities of research in the field of WAter and NAtural resources in South-East Asia”). She is trained in agronomy and water management and obtained her PhD in

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