The socio-geography of mining and hydro in Lao PDR

This note was prepared by Nina Fenton and Magnus Lindelow. The GIS analysis was provided by Andreas Heinimann and Ian Thomas, of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, using census data and information on the mining and hydropower projects kindly provided by Department of Statistics (DOS), the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), Department of Mines (DOM), and Water Resources and Environment Administration (WREA) respectively. Useful inputs were also received from Ekaterina Vostroknutova