Künzer, Claudia (2013) Field Note: Threatening Tonle Sap: Challenges for Southeast-Asia’s largest Freshwater Lake. Pacific Geographies, 40, pp. 29-31. ISSN 2196-1468.
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The Tonle Sap ecosystem in Cambodia is Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake; strongly impacted by the Mekong river flood pulse. The lake is home to exceptional biodiversity, and rural communities living in free floating villages on the lake and on its shores. The fragile niche ecosystems as well as the rural livelihoods of Tonle Sap are under severe threat. Overfishing, illegal wood harvesting, further resource exploitation, and water quality deterioration all impact the stability of the socio-ecological system of Tonle Sap. At the same time, expected flood pulse changes due to regulatory measures in the context of hydropower development upstream on the Mekong are a severe threat for Tonle Sap’s ecosystem stability. The area needs to shift into the focus of attention of national and international researchers, stakeholders, and decision makers, to find suitable pathways for a future sustainable development of this unique and pristine region.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/83477/ | ||||||||
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Document Type: | Article | ||||||||
Title: | Field Note: Threatening Tonle Sap: Challenges for Southeast-Asia’s largest Freshwater Lake | ||||||||
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Date: | July 2013 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Pacific Geographies | ||||||||
Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||
Open Access: | Yes | ||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | No | ||||||||
Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 29-31 | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2196-1468 | ||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||
Keywords: | Tonle Sap Lake, flood pulse ecosystem, floating villages, rural livelihoods, fisheries | ||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||
HGF - Program: | Space | ||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | Earth Observation | ||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Raumfahrt | ||||||||
DLR - Program: | R EO - Earth Observation | ||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | R - Vorhaben Fernerkundung der Landoberfläche (old) | ||||||||
Location: | Oberpfaffenhofen | ||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | German Remote Sensing Data Center > Land Surface | ||||||||
Deposited By: | Leinenkugel, Patrick | ||||||||
Deposited On: | 23 Jul 2013 12:57 | ||||||||
Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2021 20:28 |
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