Save the Mekong Delta from drowning

G M Kondolf; R J P Schmitt; P A Carling; M Goichot; M Keskinen; M E Arias; S Bizzi; A Castelletti; T A Cochrane; S E Darby; M Kummu; P S J Minderhoud; D Nguyen; H T Nguyen; N T Nguyen; C Oeurng; J Opperman; Z Rubin; D C San; S Schmeier; T Wild

doi:10.1126/science.abm5176

Save the Mekong Delta from drowning

Science. 2022 May 6;376(6593):583-585. doi: 10.1126/science.abm5176. Epub 2022 May 5.

Authors

G M Kondolf¹, R J P Schmitt^{1

2}, P A Carling³, M Goichot⁴, M Keskinen⁵, M E Arias⁶, S Bizzi⁷, A Castelletti⁸, T A Cochrane⁹, S E Darby³, M Kummu⁵, P S J Minderhoud^{10

11

12}, D Nguyen¹³, H T Nguyen¹⁴, N T Nguyen¹⁵, C Oeurng^{1

16}, J Opperman¹⁷, Z Rubin^{1

18}, D C San¹⁹, S Schmeier²⁰, T Wild²¹

Affiliations

¹ Riverlab, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁴ World Wide Fund for Nature Asia Pacific, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
⁵ Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
⁶ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
⁷ Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
⁸ Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, Milano, Italy.
⁹ Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
¹⁰ Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University, Netherlands.
¹¹ Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
¹² Subsurface and Groundwater Systems Unit, Deltares Research Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹³ Laboratory for Hydraulics Saint-Venant, Université PARIS-EST, Chatou, France.
¹⁴ Can Tho, Vietnam.
¹⁵ University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
¹⁶ Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
¹⁷ Global Science, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁸ Balance Hydrologics, Berkeley, CA, USA.
¹⁹ Southern Institute of Water Resources Research, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
²⁰ Water Governance Department, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands.
²¹ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

PMID: 35536906
DOI: 10.1126/science.abm5176

Abstract

Policy must address drivers, not just symptoms, of subsidence.