Evaluating sustainable adaptation strategies for vulnerable mega-deltas using system dynamics modelling: Rice agriculture in the Mekong Delta's An Giang Province, Vietnam

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 559, Issue , 2016, Pages 326-338

  Chapman, Alexander ^a   Darby, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Mekong Delta; Rice; Sediment; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; FERTILIZERS; FLOODS; NUTRIENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTS; SYSTEM THEORY;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; AGRICULTURE OPERATION; MEKONG DELTA; RICE; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELLING;

CULTIVATION;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; DEPOSITION; MODELING; RICE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPPING SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; VIET NAM;

AN GIANG; MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 84962712337     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.162     Document Type: Article

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