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DOI	10.2166/wcc.2010.009
	Climate change and water resources in the lower Mekong River Basin: Putting adaptation into the context
	Keskinen M.; Chinvanno S.; Kummu M.; Nuorteva P.; Snidvongs A.; Varis O.; Västilä K.
发表日期	2010
ISSN	20402244
起始页码	103
结束页码	117
卷号	1 期号:2
英文摘要	Adaptation to climate change has become one of the focal points of current development discussion. This article summarises the findings from a multidisciplinary research project looking at climate change impacts and adaptation in the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. The research highlights the central role that the hydrological cycle has in mediating climate change impacts on ecosystems and societies. The findings indicate that climate change should not be studied in isolation, as there are several other factors that are affecting the hydrological cycle. In the Mekong, the most important such factor is the on-going hydropower development that is likely to induce changes at least as radical as climate change, but with shorter timescales. The article concludes that climate change adaptation should broaden its view to consider environmental changes likely to occur due to different factors at various spatial and temporal scales. It is also important to recognise that climate change adaptation is a dynamic, development-orientated process that should consider also broader socio-political context. To enable this, we propose that an area-based adaptation approach should be used more actively to complement the dominant sector-based approaches. © IWA Publishing 2010.
英文关键词	Adaptation policies; Climate change adaptation; Livelihoods; Mekong Delta; Tonle Sap; Water resources management
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Adaptation policies; Climate change adaptation; Livelihoods; Mekong Delta; Tonle saps; Water resources management; Research; Water resources; Watersheds; Climate change
来源期刊	Journal of Water and Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/148397
作者单位	Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15200, 00076 AALTO, Finland; Southeast Asia START Regional Center, Chulalongkorn University, Chulawich 1 Building, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Keskinen M.,Chinvanno S.,Kummu M.,et al. Climate change and water resources in the lower Mekong River Basin: Putting adaptation into the context[J],2010,1(2).
APA	Keskinen M..,Chinvanno S..,Kummu M..,Nuorteva P..,Snidvongs A..,...&Västilä K..(2010).Climate change and water resources in the lower Mekong River Basin: Putting adaptation into the context.Journal of Water and Climate Change,1(2).
MLA	Keskinen M.,et al."Climate change and water resources in the lower Mekong River Basin: Putting adaptation into the context".Journal of Water and Climate Change 1.2(2010).