SOME SOLUTIONS TO RESPOND CLIMATE CHANGE FOR THE MEKONG DELTA, VIET NAM

• Main Authors: Chi Nguyen Thuy Lan, Dao Phan, Kyncl Microslav
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: VSB-Technical University of Ostrava 2017-09-01
• Series: GeoScience Engineering
• Subjects: climate change; mekong delta; flood; accretion and erosion; pollution prevention
• Online Access: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gse.2017.63.issue-3/gse-2017-0013/gse-2017-0013.xml?format=INT

In the recent decades, the Mekong River Delta has suffered quite significant impacts of climate change. Fluctuations of weather elements and sea level rises have caused adverse changes, namely: the appearance of unusual high and low levels of annual floods, more and more intense storms, more severe droughts, forest fires, river erosion, cyclones, and tidal surges appear increasingly more dangerous. Traditional adaptation measures to the environmental conditions may be unsuitable in the context of climate change in the Mekong River Delta. This paper summarizes some of the new adaptation measures that scientists and policy planners have proposed for the area to cope with the negative impacts of climate change.