Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification

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cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystemsen_US
cg.creator.identifierChu Thai Hoanh: 0000-0003-0686-6385en_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/Agricultural-Development-and-Sustainable-Intensification-Technology-and/Nagothu/p/book/9781138300590en_US
cg.river.basinGANGESen_US
cg.river.basinMEKONGen_US
cg.subject.wleAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONen_US
cg.subject.wleCLIMATE CHANGEen_US
cg.subject.wleINTENSIFICATIONen_US
cg.subject.wleLIVELIHOODSen_US
dc.contributor.authorMerrey, Douglas J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMondal, Manoranjan K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHoanh, Chu Thaien_US
dc.contributor.authorHumphreys, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.authorDao, Ngaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-16T14:05:35Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-05-16T14:05:35Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92576en_US
dc.titleAgricultural Development and Sustainable Intensificationen_US
dcterms.abstractThe livelihoods of people living in coastal deltas, especially in poor tropical countries, are being undermined by multiple insidious trends. Historically, these deltas have attracted large numbers of people, leading to high population densities, because they offer a wide range of ecosystem services. Tropical deltas are characterized by a combination of highly fertile land, multiple marine and freshwater resources, and rich biodiversity. Deltas are often the “breadbaskets” or “rice bowls” of the nations or regions where they are located: examples are the Nile, Irrawaddy, Mississippi and the Cauvery, as well as the Ganges and Mekong river deltas. However, deltas around the world are facing growing threats to their integrity and productivity. The origins of these threats are both anthropogenic and natural, and include the impacts of growing urbanization; agricultural intensication; anthropogenic alterations of ow paths and ood plains; upstream water consumption and pollution; over-extraction of groundwater; trapping of sediments; climate change; sea-level rise whose effects are amplied by sinking land levels and sedimentation of river beds; and extreme events such as river ooding and tidal surges (Renaud et al., 2013).en_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMerrey, Douglas J.; Mondal, Manoranjan K.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Humphreys, Elizabeth; Dao, Nga. 2018. Community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification in river deltas: Lessons from the Ganges and Mekong Rivers. Nagothu, Udaya Sekhar; (Eds). Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification: Technology and Policy Challenges in the Face of Climate Change. Routledge. pp.234-254en_US
dcterms.extent306p.en_US
dcterms.issued2018en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dcterms.typeBook Chapteren_US

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