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Planning dam portfolios for low sediment trapping shows limits for sustainable hydropower in the Mekong

Published:2019-10-04 Issue:10 Volume:5 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Schmitt R. J. P.¹²^ORCID,Bizzi S.³⁴^ORCID,Castelletti A.³⁵^ORCID,Opperman J. J.⁶,Kondolf G. M.²⁷

Affiliation:

1. Natural Capital Project, Department of Biology and the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

2. Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

3. Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

4. Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.

5. Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

6. WWF Global Science, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA.

7. Collegium–Lyon Institute for Advanced Study, University of Lyon, Lyon, France.

Abstract

Strategic planning in the Mekong Basin could improve trade-offs between hydropower and sediment supply to the Mekong Delta.

Funder

European Commission

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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