Maintaining perspective of ongoing environmental change in the Mekong floodplains
Maintaining perspective of ongoing environmental change in the Mekong floodplains
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cosust.2019.01.002
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Piman, Thanapon
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作者：
Arias, Mauricio E.;Holtgrieve, Gordon W.;Piman, Thanapon
直到近几十年来，湄公河的水文状况一直不受管制，并且仍然蕴藏着巨大的自然资源，是农村生计的基础。近年来，关于水坝和气候变化如何改变河流的研究不断增多，虽然这项研究产生了重要的科学概念并增加了对可持续发展的讨论，但它在阻止柬埔寨和越南湄公河漫滩的快速环境变化方面却收效甚微。与此同时，洪泛区变化的局部驱动因素（包括过度捕捞、森林砍伐和水利基础设施开发）正在以更快、更直接的方式影响环境，可能加剧水电和气候变化等区域因素的负面影响。流域的可持续发展必须包括全面的科学和可实施的政策计划，这些计划应跨区域和地方尺度相结合，并侧重于明确界定的社会和政策目标、关键数据的收集、区域内科学和政策机构的能力建设、有效的执法和适应性强的实施战略。
The Mekong River remained hydrologically unregulated until recent decades and still harbors immense natural resources that are the basis of rural livelihoods. Research on how dams and climate change could alter the river has heightened in recent years, and while this research has led to important scientific concepts and increased discussion of sustainable development, it has done little to prevent the rapid environmental change in the Mekong floodplains of Cambodia and Vietnam. Meanwhile, localized drivers of floodplain change (including overfishing, deforestation, and water infrastructure development) are impacting the environment in faster and more direct ways, potentially exacerbating the negative effects of regional factors such as hydropower and climate change. Sustainable development of the basin must include comprehensive science and implementable policy programs that integrate across regional and local scales and focus on clearly defined societal and policy goals, collection of critical data, capacity building of in-region scientific and policy institutions, effective law enforcement, and adaptable implementation strategies.