Adjusting to climate change in the Lower Mekong

The Mekong Committee is the principal institution for international water resource planning in the Lower Mekong River basin, It is likely to play several important roles in helping the people of the region adjust to any future changes in climate, The Committee appears to have a high degree of institutional resiliency and should be able to adjust its planning strategies well to future climate change, In the past several decades, as a result of conflict and low levels of funding, water resource development has been relatively slow in the Lower Mekong, with few large-scale structures, However, the low level of water development in the past may actually prove to have been an asset by having provided time for considering potential adjustments to future regional climate variability and change. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.