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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Law on Environmental Protection and Management of Natural Resources
The objectives of this law are to protect and upgrade the environment quality and public health by means of prevention, reduction and control of pollution, to make assessment...
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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...
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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
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Decree on Establishing the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Series No. 149 / June 21, 2008
Decree on Establishing the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Series No. 149 / June 21, 2008
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Decree on the Organization and Functioning of the Committee on Management of Business and Protection of Impacts on the Shoreline, Ecological and River Ecosystems No. 161 / PM, September 15, 2008
Decree on the Organization and Functioning of the Committee on Management of Business and Protection of Impacts on the Shoreline, Ecological and River Ecosystems No. 161 / PM,...
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Decree on Environmental Protection Fund, No 164 / June 06, 2005
Decree on Environmental Protection Fund, No 164 / June 06, 2005
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Decree No. 102 / June 04, 2001, implementing the Law on Environmental Protection.
Decree No. 102 / June 04, 2001, implementing the Law on Environmental Protection.
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Decree on Environmental Impact Assessment No 112 / Vientiane Capital, 16/02/2010
Decree on Environmental Impact Assessment No 112 / Vientiane Capital, 16/02/2010
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Decree on the implementation of the Law on Environmental Protection No. 102 / Nguyen Vieng, June 4, 2001
Decree on the implementation of the Law on Environmental Protection No. 102 / Nguyen Vieng, June 4, 2001
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Ecosystem Profile: Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot
This document represents the ecosystem profile for the Indo-Burma Hotspot, whichcomprises all non-marine parts of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, plus parts of...
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Enhancement and Conservation of National Environmental Quality Act
The defines key terms relating to Environmental Quality and outlines regulations to govern the enhancement and conservation of the National Environment.
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Sustainable sloping lands and watershed management linking research to strengthen upland policies and practices December 12 - 15, 2006 Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
The Government of Lao PDR is determined to eradicate extreme poverty and move beyond the category of Least Developed Country by the year 2020. The uplands and upper watershed...