From Rice to Shrimp: Ecological Change and Human Adaptation in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 45, Issue , 2011, Pages 271-285

  Lan, Ngo Thi Phuong ^a,b  

^a Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities   (Viet Nam)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Ecological change; Gender division of labor; Human adaptation; Shrimp farming in Vietnam; Structural transformation in agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996430346     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0934-8_16     Document Type: Chapter

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