Essay on Conflict in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region Environmental Sciences
The Greater Mekong sub-region GMS crosses six countries, including Thailand and Vietnam, and millions of people who depend on its natural resources. Despite the critical importance of GMS ecosystems, they face multiple threats that reduce their capacity to provide goods and services to local populations. In the long term, the Mekong River is one of Asia's strategically most important transboundary waterways. The Mekong not only supplies water to the people in the highlands of southern China, but also helps support millions of people downstream in Southeast Asia, where the river is an important part of agriculture. A notable publication in this sense, in article form, is Verbiest's 2013 recent “Regional Cooperation and Integration in the Mekong Region”. Two other often referenced articles that take a more general perspective are Thans 1997 “Economic Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion” and Krongkaews 2004 “The,