Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification

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cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.creator.identifierChu Thai Hoanh: 0000-0003-0686-6385
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/Agricultural-Development-and-Sustainable-Intensification-Technology-and/Nagothu/p/book/9781138300590en
cg.river.basinGANGESen
cg.river.basinMEKONGen
cg.subject.wleAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.wleCLIMATE CHANGEen
cg.subject.wleINTENSIFICATIONen
cg.subject.wleLIVELIHOODSen
dc.contributor.authorMerrey, Douglas J.en
dc.contributor.authorMondal, Manoranjan K.en
dc.contributor.authorHoanh, Chu Thaien
dc.contributor.authorHumphreys, Elizabethen
dc.contributor.authorDao, Ngaen
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-16T14:05:35Zen
dc.date.available2018-05-16T14:05:35Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92576
dc.titleAgricultural Development and Sustainable Intensificationen
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
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
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
dcterms.extent306p.en
dcterms.issued2018
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherRoutledgeen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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