Preface
1 Overview of the Mekong River Basin
1.1 The Lancang-Mekong River Basin
1.1.1 Lancang River Basin
1.1.2 Mekong River Basin
1.2 Physical Geography
1.2.1 Topography
1.2.2 Meteorology
1.2.3 Hydrology
1.3 Socio-economy
1.3.1 Administrative Division
1.3.2 Population Distribution
1.3.3 Land Utilization
1.3.4 Industry
1.4 Current Status of Development and Utilization of Water Resources
1.4.1 Irrigation Projects
1.4.2 Hydropower Projects
2 Summary of Flood and Drought in the Mekong River Basin
2.1 Objective
2.2 Data and Methodology
2.2.1 Data
2.2.2 Methodology
2.3 Summary of Flood
2.3.1 Flood Loss
2.3.2 The Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Flood Loss
2.3.3 Flood Benefit
2.4 Summary of Drought
2.4.1 Drought Loss
2.4.2 Typical Drought Disasters
2.5 Summary
3 Analysis of Flood Character in the Mekong River Basin
3.1 Data and Methodology
3.1.1 Data
3.1.2 Methodology
3.2 Setting up of the THREW model
3.2.1 Forcing Data
3.2.2 Calibration and Validation
3.2.3 Discussion
3.3 Flood types in the Mekong River Basin
3.4 Peak, Volume and Duration
3.4.1 Flood Peak
3.4.2 Flood Volume and Duration
3.5 Composition of mainstream flood
3.5.1 Flood Travel Time
3.5.2 Flood Composition
3.6 Conclusions
4 Analysis of Drought Character in the Mekong River Basin
4.1 Data and Methodology
4.1.1 Data
4.1.2 Methodology
4.2 Character Analysis of Drought
4.2.1 Character of Meteorological Drought
4.2.2 Character of Hydrological Drought
4.4 Discussion
4.5 Summary
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5 Overview of Measures and Assessment of Capacity for Flood Prevention and Drought Relief
6 Main Findings and Recommendations
Appendix 1 Introduction of THREW Model