Abstract

Adaptation measures are being considered for climate extreme events, particularly floods and droughts, in the Chao Phraya River Basin (CPRB) of Thailand and the Jiulong River Basin (JRB) of China. The purpose of this article is to integrate adaptation measures and case studies for sustainable water management in the CPRB and to compare adaptation cases between the CPRB and the JRB. The study utilized the DPSIR (Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework and Integrated Water Resource Management introduced to improve the overall adaptation measures and practices for hydrological hazards in the CPRB using primary and secondary data from field surveys, relevant academic articles, and official reports. The key findings are that structural measures (engineering-based) play an important role in dealing with water-related hazards in the JRB, whereas the CPRB encourages the ability of ecosystem-based adaptation and natural-based solutions applications (e.g., natural or built storage, natural green surface areas, and wetland application), involving multiple water-related hazards in a natural way as a multi-function. This study for Thailand and China shows how the methods and results can be compared and integrated with adaptation measures in a variety of dimensions and contexts of hydrological hazards and water resource management.