TY - UNPB
T1 - Planning Approaches for Water Resources Development in the Lower Mekong Basin
AU - Costanza, Robert
AU - Kubiszewski, Ida
AU - Paquet, Peter
AU - King, Jeffrey
AU - Halimi, Shpresa
AU - Sanguanngoi, Hansa
AU - Bach, Nguyen Luong
AU - Frankel, Richard
AU - Ganaseni, Jiragorn
AU - Intralawan, Apisom
AU - Morell, David
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Governments in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) face decisions that involve trade-offs between, for example, the economic benefits from hydropower generation and potentially irreversible negative impacts on the ecosystems that provide livelihoods and food security to the rural poor. These decisions involve complex problems that are both poorly understood in scientific terms and subject to rapid, potentially catastrophic change over time. A comprehensive, whole systems approach that adequately addresses the risks and uncertainties involved is necessary, but this is a daunting challenge for researchers, decision makers, and managers. They must develop the capacity to plan, coordinate, and implement a program that improves sustainable societal well-being across national boundaries in the face of these uncertainties, which include impacts on native capture fisheries, biodiversity, wetlands and other biological resources, ecosystem services (i.e., the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human well-being), and indigenous cultures and ways of life.
AB - Governments in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) face decisions that involve trade-offs between, for example, the economic benefits from hydropower generation and potentially irreversible negative impacts on the ecosystems that provide livelihoods and food security to the rural poor. These decisions involve complex problems that are both poorly understood in scientific terms and subject to rapid, potentially catastrophic change over time. A comprehensive, whole systems approach that adequately addresses the risks and uncertainties involved is necessary, but this is a daunting challenge for researchers, decision makers, and managers. They must develop the capacity to plan, coordinate, and implement a program that improves sustainable societal well-being across national boundaries in the face of these uncertainties, which include impacts on native capture fisheries, biodiversity, wetlands and other biological resources, ecosystem services (i.e., the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human well-being), and indigenous cultures and ways of life.
M3 - Working paper
SP - 1
EP - 90
BT - Planning Approaches for Water Resources Development in the Lower Mekong Basin
PB - Portland State University
CY - Portland, Oregon.
ER -