Towards an ecoregional approach for natural resource management in the Red River basin of Vietnam

Title

Towards an ecoregional approach for natural resource management in the Red River basin of Vietnam

Author or Responsible organization/project

MARD and International Rice Research Institute

Year

1997

Total page

254

Code

103

Classification

proceeding

Summary

This proceedings are composed of tree sections; an introductory section, a section on current and proposed research, and a section on aspects of a future vision of natural resource management(NRM). Three papers in the introductory section provide a comprehensive introduction to the different ecoregional approach, and also set the context for the Red River Basin as a pilot site within a new initiative called the Ecoregional Initiative for the Humid/Subhumid Tropics/Subtropics of Asia. the second section has twelve papers on different ongoing and new projects on NRM in the basin, and show the diversity of work on NRM which would be suitable for inclusion in a collaborative program. The third section contains two papers which explore some possible elements of an ecoregional approach to NRM.

Publisher

Agricultural Publishing House

Key word

Red River Basin; natural resource; ecoregional approach; water management