SERVIR-Mekong adds key tools for environmental monitoring
Recently, the SERVIR-Mekong team added three new tools to aid in the environmental monitoring of the Mekong River Basin.
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Recently, the SERVIR-Mekong team added three new tools to aid in the environmental monitoring of the Mekong River Basin.
Landscapes on Earth are changing at unprecedented levels. For scientists, practitioners and environmental decision makers, tracking these changes efficiently and accurately is critical to protecting lives and livelihoods.
VAWR, which operates under Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), is the leading institute for water resources, research and development within Vietnam.
Vietnam and Thailand, like other countries in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia, have long dealt with water-related problems -- flooding in the rainy season, drought in the dry season, and degradation of water quality because of a growing population, urbanization, and agricultural and industrial expansion. Efficient management of water resources is all-important for these countries.
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is an intergovernmental organization that provides coordination and technical input on flood management to the members of the Lower Mekong countries including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam.
During 1-2 June 2017, SERVIR-Mekong personnel led a kick-off workshop for seven grantee organizations selected under the SERVIR-Mekong Grants Program at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand. The purpose of the event was to define roles and responsibilities, outline grant activities, and provide opportunities for the grantees to interact in person with SERVIR-Mekong staff.
USAID's website features a success story from the SERVIR-Mekong/ADPC partnership with Google to provide training on GEE.
The forests of Vietnam support the livelihoods of over 24 to 30 million rural people in Vietnam. Deforestation has serious effects on biodiversity, threatening the safety of millions of inhabitants as well as wildlife.
Transboundary water management is a challenge to countries in the Lower Mekong. Surface water distribution changes over space and time and these patterns can provide insight into ecological structure and function, patterns of flooding and flood risk, and the impacts on the landscape, infrastructure, and the people at-risk.
Earth Magazine recently featured an article on SERVIR, highlighting the program and in particular several activities of the SERVIR-Mekong hub, which is based at ADPC in Bangkok, Thailand.