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Blocking a Bloodline: Indigenous Communities along the Tanintharyi River Fear the Impacts of Large Scale Dams
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Candle Light Youth Group, Southern Youth and Tarkapaw Youth
2019
There are a total of 76 villages, 6,118 households and 32,008 people living directly along the Tanintharyi River, who depend on it as a vital source of food security, water, tra...
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Impacts of Mainstream Hydropower Dams on Fisheries and Agriculture in Lower Mekong Basin
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Yuichiro Yoshida, Han Soo Lee, Bui Huy Trung , Hoang-Dung Tran,...
2020
This paper, however, discusses the fishery and agricultural sectors of the LMB and focuses on the downstream floodplains of Cambodia and Vietnam. The dam construction has caused...
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Laos’ hydropower generation capacity to jump almost four fold 2020
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
Reuters
2014
This media article reports about the Laos' hydropower and its plan for the future.
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Water Grabbing in the Mekong Basin – An Analysis of the Winners and Losers of Thailand’s Hydropower Development in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand
Advocacy and promotional materials
Nathanial Matthews
2012
This paper examines how powerful state and private actors from within Thailand and Lao PDR mobilise power to control the benefits from hydropower while the social and environmen...
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Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
Chris Humphrey
2018
This article reviews the catastrophic impacts of dam collapse in the Southern Laos in July 2018 which results in deaths, devastated communities, forced thousands to flee and rip...
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The Beautiful Rivers—And the Dammed
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
JEFF OPPERMAN, CHRIS WEBER AND DANIEL KAMMEN
2018
This is a news feature on energy trends in the world. It shows the potential of other energy sources other than hydropowers that usually comes with the risks of undesired disast...
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Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos: a very major landslide in December
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
Dave Petley
2017
This article features a potential disaster, a land slide, after the construction of Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos.
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Development or Destruction? The Human Rights Impacts of Hydropower Development on Villagers in Southeast Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) and Karen River Watch (KRW)
2018
Myanmar needs to acknowledge and address a number of salient concerns if it going to use hydropower to meet its future electricity needs. Most of Myanmar’s abundant hydropower r...
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Nam Theun 2 Project Overview
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
World Bank
2017
The page offers an overview of Nam Theun 2 hydro-power project as of 2017, along with every stage of project updates.
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Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank's model Hydropower project in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud
2018
In June 2018, the University of Wisconsin Press published a new book about the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos. The books findings relate to issues of environmental susta...
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Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Oxfam Asia Regional Water Governance Program
2013
Oxfam Mekong Regional Water Governance program developed Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) manual Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development. ...
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Final Report: Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
IFC
2018
The Myanmar hydropower sector, in the early stages of development, has the opportunity to develop sustainably by balancing electricity generation with environmental and social o...
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China’s Investments in Hydropower in the Mekong Region: The Kamchay Hydropower Dam, Kampot, Cambodia
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mark Grimsditch
2012
This paper has two main areas of focus, the first deals with the background of the Kamchay project, including Cambodia’s motivation for developing its hydropower capacities, and...
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Laos to build Don Sahong dam (thanks to Chinese help)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
N.H.
2015
The Laotian government officially announces the construction of the dam. Once completed, it will likely affect the lives of at least 60 million people, damaging crops and ecosys...
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Regulatory Shortcomings Open the Way to More Dams on the Mekong
Thailand
Archived web content
Pichayada Promchertchoo, Chiangrai Times
2016
Plans for more dams along the Mekong are causing concern among environmentalists and pressure groups. But the body tasked with overseeing such projects has limited powers to imp...
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Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan for the Xe Kong Basin Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Gregory Thomas, J.D., Natural Heritage Institute
2018
The Master Plan was developed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) and a team of international experts in full collaboration with the Government of Lao PDR (GoL). The purpos...
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National sector review 2003: Hydropower
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy, Cambodia National Mekong Committee
2003
Cambodia is one of the south-east Asian countries that is rich in water resources. According to the latest preliminary study, the total hydropower potential of the country is es...
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Exec Summary - Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
IFC
2018
မှနြှာန ိုငငြံ ရအောားလွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပရြေားကဏျဍသညြ ှှံှေ့ပှ ှုားရေားအရကာငအြထညရြှာြှှု ကနဦားအဆငြ့တြှငသြာ ရှ ရန ရသားသညြ့အြတှကြ လွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပြှှုက ို ပတဝြနြားက ငြ နှငြ့ြ လူှှုရော...
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Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
International Rivers
2019
The factsheet summarizes key findings and recommendations of the Council Study in relation to hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin. The findings of the Council Study...
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Launching Lower Sesan II Hydropower Dam
Cambodia
Archived web content
Office of the Council of Ministers
2018
The article, from the Office of the Council of Ministers, is about the Prime Minister of Cambodia launching the Lower Sesan II Hydropower Dam.