Contents
Preface ............................................................................................................ v
Editor and Contributers ................................................................................ vii
Chapter 1. Introduction
Environmental change and human-induced change
—Monsoon Asia is one of the important area for regional study for
fluvial plain development considering natural environmental change—
S. Haruyama ............................................................................................. 1
Chapter 2. Lower Mekong Basin
—Existing environment and development needs—
M. Kamoto and M. Juntopas .................................................................. 23
Chapter 3. Characteristics of geomorphological elements of the tropical
flood plain in the SAR image and the SRTM DEM
H. Ohkura and Y. Wada ....................................................................... 43
Chapter 4. Relationships between river morphology and grain size
distributions of the river ridge materials of the Tonle Sap River
S. Oketani and S. Haruyama .................................................................. 55
Chapter 5. Landform and stratigraphic evolution of the Mekong River
lowland, with special emphasis on tidal influence during the Holocene
transgression
K. Hori, S. Haruyama and S. Sieng ........................................................ 79
Chapter 6. Floodplain characteristics of the Mekong Delta in Cambodia
—Geomorphologic land classification map showing the typical
landform combination of the Mega Delta—
S. Oketani and S. Haruyama ................................................................. 97
Chapter 7. The basic study for evaluation of groundwater resources in
inland area of Mekong Delta utilizing by vertical electric survey
—Toward to new methodology suggestion of understanding
sedimentation in Holocene—
S. Hiraide, S. Haruyama, H. Nakazato, K. Meng, S. Sineg
and K. Suzuki ....................................................................................... 139
Chapter 8. Land use and fluvial geomorphology of the lower Mekong
delta in Vietnamese territories
—Lesson from local knowledge of the land use for future regional planning
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based on geomorphologic features—
S. Haruyama ............................................................................................. 165
Chapter 9. Rice farming system and landforms series of inland Mekong
River Delta in Cambodia territory
—Is it possible for living with flood in the mega Delta?—
S. Haruyama and T. Ito ............................................................................. 197
Chapter 10. The development of landforms and Angkor kingdom
period in the northwestern area of Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia
—The impact of Mekong river flood for lake side plain—
A. Fukano and S. Haruyama ...................................................................... 235
Chapter 11. 40 years in the lowest part of Mekong River Delta
—The Mekong River flooding in history of the delta development—
T. V. H. Le, S. Haruyama, H. N. Nguyen and T. C. Tran ............................ 259
Chapter 12. The impact evaluation for lower Mekong flood because of
man-made structures and natural environmental change
T. V. H. Le, S. Haruyama and H. N. Nguyen .............................................. 295
Chapter 13. Introduction of traditional riverbank protection works of
Japan to the Mekong River in Vientiane, Lao PDR
Y. Kato ..................................................................................................... 323
Chapter 14. Rice crop pattern of the lowlands related with flooding in
Cambodia
—Indigenous skills and knowledge for sustainable agriculture
development in Mekong Delta—
S. Haruyama and C. Nhean ....................................................................... 339
Supplement
S. Haruyama ............................................................................................. 363