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Precarious Paddies: Environmental Pasts and Sustainable Futures in the Mekong Delta
Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta (2011)
  • Mart A. Stewart
  • Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.  The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course of many millennia has produced a region of fertile alluvial soils and constant flows of energy.  Today about a fourth of the Delta is under rice cultivation, making this area one of the premier rice granaries in the world. 
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Publication Date
2011
Editor
Mart A. Stewart and Peter A. Coclanis
Publisher
Springer
Series
Advances in Global Change Research (Book 45)
Citation Information
Mart A. Stewart and Peter A. Coclanis. "Precarious Paddies: Environmental Pasts and Sustainable Futures in the Mekong Delta" Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mart_stewart/30/