The Mekong is the largest river in Southeast Asia and the major trans-boundary river in the world shared by six countries. Some tens millions people are living in or dependent on the basin with a life style developed as a product of Asian Monsoon climate, orogenically active geology and the rice paddy cultivation based human adjustment to the nature. In recent years. the region is a hot spot of global change with population increase, economic development, intensified meteorological extremes etc. Floods, water shortage. deforestation, water pollution etc. are the major concern of the basin. To improve the basin water resources management and solve the problems, badly needed are the scientific knowledge and information especially on the monitoring and assessment technology to identify the hydrological responses to various scenarios of basin development and management.
The aim of this symposium is to highlight the scientific needs of the Mekong basin and to provide the best available technology to respond such needs. Hydrological sciences have high potential to supply varieties of information indispensable to basin management. Such includes satellite remote-sensing to monitor the land cover changes and reservoir storage variation; distributed hydrological models to reconstruct and predict hydrographs at any concerned time and location: meso-scale meteorological models to downscale the local precipitation and atmospheric conditions where ground observations are missing; dynamic hydraulic models to simulate propagation of flood inundation etc.
The symposium is organized by the MEXT (Ministry of Education. Culture. Sports, Science and Technology) Human-Nature-Earth Co-Existence Research Project, RR2002-6 "Model Development to Assess the Change . of Water Resources due to Human and Natural Changes in Asian Monsoon Region". It is our great pleasure to have this symposium jointly organized with the Mekong River Commission and IHE. We consider this symposium as part of inaugural celebration of the new Vientiane Office of the Mekong River Commission moved from Phnom Penh , Cambodia in July 2004.
Product Details
ISBN: 0211100103793
Publisher: Revolutionary research 2002 research group
Binding: Paperback
Languages: English
Pages: 360
Dimension (w x h): 21.00 cm x 29.70 cm
Weight: 1.00 kg
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