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Integrated Flood and Drought Mitigation Mesures and Strategies. Case Study: The Mun River Basin, Thailand book cover

1st Edition

Integrated Flood and Drought Mitigation Mesures and Strategies. Case Study: The Mun River Basin, Thailand

By Saowanit Prabnakorn Copyright 2020
170 Pages
by CRC Press

170 Pages
by CRC Press
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Floods and droughts are climate extremes that account for more than 80% of people affected by natural disasters worldwide. Both catastrophes co-exist in many river basins, for example, the Mun River Basin in Thailand, which is selected as the study area. Approximately 90% of rice cultivation here is rain-fed, and that results in the lowest yields in the country, making many farmers persist in... Read more

1 General introduction
2 Study area: the Mun River Basin, Thailand
3 Climate variability, trends, and their impacts on rice yields
4 Flood hazard assessment
5 Drought hazard assessment
6 Flood and drought mitigation measures and strategies
7 Synthesis and main contributions & prospects of further research

Biography

Saowanit Prabnakorn is a Ph.D. fellow in the Water Science and Engineering Department of IHE Delft, the Netherlands. She obtained MSc in Hydraulic Engineering from (was) UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands in the year 2014. Her study abroad is fully supported by the Royal Thai Government. She also earned M.Econ. in Business Economics from the National Institute of Development Administration and B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Mahidol University in Thailand. She has multidisciplinary backgrounds in both engineering and economics. Her primary research interests are hydrological climate impacts, i.e., flood, drought, flood modeling, and integrated water resources management focusing on agriculture.

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