Journal article
Are freshwater systems in lower mekong basin (Southeast asia) resilient? a synthesis of social-ecological system
GR Kattel
Environmental Research Communications | IOP Publishing Ltd | Published : 2020
Abstract
Social-ecological resilience of freshwater systems in lower Mekong basin in southeast Asia is largely unknown. Over the recent past, the freshwater ecosystems in the region have gone through severe environmental stress. Climate change, sea level rise, over-extraction of water and eutrophication together have increased vulnerability to regime shifts of ecosystems in the region. Regime shifts can have long-lasting effects on social-ecological resilience. Response diversity plays a central role in linking ecological, social, and financial systems and enhances resilience. Documenting regime shifts and associated feedbacks as well as the role of response diversity in social-ecological resilience ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Inspiration for this study came when I was collaborating with the WWF-Vietnam (Water Program) and Can Tho University (Vietnam). The Future Earth-PAGES Program provided a partial support when I was a visiting scientist at the Past Global Changes International Project Office, University of Bern, Switzerland in 2017. The travel grants to Bern was provided by the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS#2016 VEA050), when I was CAS-PIFI Professorial Fellow at NIGLAS. A part of the travel supports to visit Vietnam was from the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) and the Regional University Network (RUN) Australia program to Vietnam at Federation University Australia. I would also like to acknowledge the Global Talent Scholar Program and the National Key Research of China Grants (#2016YFC0402900,#2016YFE0201900) of Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Dr Himalaya Singh kindly assisted to draw the regional map of the southeast Asia (figure 1) in ArcGIS. Two anonymous reviewers are also highly acknowledged.