The future of hydropower? A systematic review of the drivers, benefits and governance dynamics of transboundary dams

C Llamosas, BK Sovacool - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Transboundary hydropower dams are sources of hydroelectricity supply that sit in shared
international rivers or watersheds, and/or generate benefits and costs that flow across …

Anthropogenic, direct pressures on coastal wetlands

A Newton, J Icely, S Cristina, GME Perillo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coastal wetlands, such as saltmarshes and mangroves that fringe transitional waters,
deliver important ecosystem services that support human development. Coastal wetlands …

Linking rapid erosion of the Mekong River delta to human activities

EJ Anthony, G Brunier, M Besset, M Goichot… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
As international concern for the survival of deltas grows, the Mekong River delta, the world's
third largest delta, densely populated, considered as Southeast Asia's most important food …

Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world

ZD Tessler, CJ Vörösmarty, M Grossberg, I Gladkova… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Deltas are highly sensitive to increasing risks arising from local human activities, land
subsidence, regional water management, global sea-level rise, and climate extremes. We …

More dams, more violence? A global analysis on resistances and repression around conflictive dams through co-produced knowledge

D Del Bene, A Scheidel, L Temper - Sustainability science, 2018 - Springer
The present article analyses a unique database of 220 dam-related environmental conflicts,
retrieved from the Global Atlas on Environmental Justice (EJAtlas), and based on knowledge …

Observed river discharge changes due to hydropower operations in the Upper Mekong Basin

TA Räsänen, P Someth, H Lauri, J Koponen… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Mekong Basin is undergoing extensive hydropower development and its
largest dams have recently become operational. Hydropower is built to improve the regional …

Recent evolution of the Mekong Delta and the impacts of dams

X Li, JP Liu, Y Saito, VL Nguyen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
As the world's third largest delta and one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots,
the Mekong Delta provides both ecological and food security for its inhabitants …

The worst 2020 saline water intrusion disaster of the past century in the Mekong Delta: Impacts, causes, and management implications

E Park, HH Loc, D Van Binh, S Kantoush - Ambio, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Vietnam Mekong Delta (VMD), the country's most important food basket, is
constantly threatened by drought-infused salinity intrusion (SI). The SI disaster of 2020 is …

Estimating rice production in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, utilizing time series of Sentinel-1 SAR data

K Clauss, M Ottinger, P Leinenkugel… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rice is the most important food crop in Asia and rice exports can significantly contribute to a
country's GDP. Vietnam is the third largest exporter and fifth largest producer of rice, the …

Sand mining in the Mekong Delta revisited-current scales of local sediment deficits

C Jordan, J Tiede, O Lojek, J Visscher, H Apel… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam has been heavily impacted by anthropogenic
stresses in recent years, such as upstream dam construction and sand mining within the …