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Sustainability
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction ; Sustainability in Global Environmental Politics ; Sustainability as a Bridging Concept: Promises and Pitfalls ; Conclusions...
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Concessions and leases in the Lao PDR: taking stock of land investments
This report presents the first nationwide analysis of land concessions and leases in the Lao PDR. The project is a joint effort between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Env...
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Comments on Draft report on Myanmars National REDD+ Strategy
In March, 2018, the Myanmar REDD+ program released its National REDD+ strategy draft report. Forest Trends has provided the following comments to the report authors in hopes tha...
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Equity Case Study Brief #5
This is a constructive equity case in community-based forest governance, focusing on the development of a mechanism for community participation in natural resource management. I...
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Krabi Goes Green: Towards a 100% Renewable Energy Province-Wide City Model
This report aims to show the results and findings of a study done on electricity consumption and generation plans in Thailand’s Krabi Province during the next 20 years (2018-203...
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The Set of Socio-Environmental Indicators for Provincial Planning and Implementation of REDD+, 2015
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD +) is an international initiative that focuses on the role of forests as a mitigation measure for global clima...
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REDD+ in the Prey Lang Area
The purpose of this feasibility study aims to provide an assessment for developing a REDD+ initiative in the Prey Lang area. It is based on the national REDD+ process in Cambodi...
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Building a sustainable future for the Mekong
A joint statement affirming the importance of sound environmental management in the Mekong region, by representatives of the Governments of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, th...
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Environmental Impact Assessments in Developing Countries: An Opportunity for Greater Environmental Security?
The first half of this Working Paper will give a background of the origins and development of environmental impact assessments. The second half of the paper will focus on enviro...
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Illegal Logging and Related Trade – Indicators of the Assessment Findings: Thailand
This summarizes Thailand 2013 Assessment Findings. More than half of Thailand’s wood demand is met by imports, and of these 20% is estimated to have been illegally sourced. Howe...
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Efficacy of Removing Natural Forests from Timber Production as a Strategy for Conserving Forests
Several countries of the Asia-Pacific region have imposed total or partial logging bans (or similar restrictions on timber harvesting) in response to the rapid decline of natura...
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Impacts and Effectiveness of Logging Bans in Natural Forests: Thailand
At the seventeenth session the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC), member countries requested FAO to implement a study of the efficacy of removing natural forests from timb...
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Navigating the Border: An Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade
In addition to socio-economic pressures, the combination of insufficient regulation in China and political instability in northern Myanmar has exacted a high ecological price. T...
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National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan – Myanmar
NBSAP Myanmar is a commitment of the Government and its people to the sustainable use of biological resources and to the fulfillment of Myanmar’s obligations, as a member countr...
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Grounding global forest economies: resource governance and commodity power in rural Laos
A dissertation by Keith D. Barney for Graduate Program in Geography at York University documenting commodity production and state power shaping the forest and paper sector in ru...
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National policy environmental and social sustainability of the Hydropower sector in lao PDR, No.561 CP
Sustainable development of the hydro-power sector is founded on three important principles: (a) economic sustainability relies upon the maintenance of the renewable resource ba...
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Integrating natural resource management initiative (INRM)
A presentation on integrating natural resource management practices across NGO work in multiple provinces in Laos. Includes information about the Clinical Legal Education office...
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Decree on the organization and remission of the National Environment Commission No. 09 / No 2/2/2000
Decree on the organization and remission of the National Environment Commission No. 09 / No 2/2/2000