IN THE NEWS: Rethinking Climate Change Adaptation for the Mekong River

A new article by Carl Middleton from CSDS is published by iD4D (Ideas for Development) on their website. The article is titled “Rethinking Climate Change Adaptation for the Mekong River”.

The Mekong Region is facing a serious drought that places at risk ecosystems, fishing and farming livelihoods, wider food security, and even drinking water supply. The extent to which climate change is acting upon the basin is an increasingly debated question, and subject to a growing number of studies. It has also been vigorously debated whether large dam infrastructure has exacerbated the impact of drought or could have been operated differently to better mitigate its impacts. As the impacts of climate change deepen, severe drought threatens to become the new normal. The challenge of equitably ensuring water, food and energy security in the context of climate change underscores the importance of improving transboundary water governance and considering the most appropriate approaches to adaptation.

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