During this conference, many Mekong research groups will meet to discuss the common agenda from different perspectives, focusing on the people of the Mekong Basin. It will be clarify what has been tried and what has been achieved, the aim of the conference being to discuss future Mekong research.
The themes of this conference are:
• water resource development, food and environment impacts
• climate and basin changes, and water hazards management
• ecosystem and biodiversity
• future opportunities and transboundary collaboration.