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Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
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...
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Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos: a very major landslide in December
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
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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Post-disaster needs assessment 2018 floods, Lao PDR
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
UN, World Bank, GFDRR & EU
2018
Lao PDR has been severely affected by floods between July and September 2018. (currently says in recent months). On July 1819, Tropical Storm Son-Tinh caused heavy rains and...
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Lao PDR Disaster Management Reference Handbook 2017
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
2017
The Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is intended to provide decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the...
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A web-platform to assess the implications of climate and development uncertainties in managing water resources allocation and use in the Lower Mekong Region
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, မြန်မာ, ထိုင််း, ဗီယက်နမ်
Advocacy and promotional materials
Stockholm Environmental Institute, Servir Mekong, Deltaras,...
2018
An online game / tool called Supporting Water Resources Management (SWARM) in Lower Mekong region (Southeast Asia) based on SEI's Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model.
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Vulnerability assessment of climate risks in Attapeu province, Lao PDR
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Programme
2005
The report of a study to assess household and community vulnerability to floods in Attapeu Province, Laos. This study is one of three assessing the potential consequences of...
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Global Climate Risk Index
ဘရူနိုင်းဒါရုဆလင်, ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, တရုတ်, ခရစ္စမတ်ကျွန်း, ကိုကိုး (ကီးလင်း) ကျွန်း, တီမော လက်စ်တေ, ဟောင်ကောင်, အိနိ္ဒယ, အင်ဒိုနီးရှား, ဂျပန်, ကိုရီးယား ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, ကိုရီးယားသမ္မတနိင်ငံ, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, မလေးရှား, မွန်ဂိုးလီးယား, မြန်မာ, ဖိလစ်ပိုင်, စင်္ကာပူ, သီရိလင်္ကာ, ထိုင််း, ဗီယက်နမ်
Issue and policy briefs
Germanwatch
The Global Climate Risk Index analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). Updated...
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Disaster risk management unit handbook
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
CARE international Lao PDR
Lao PDR has been affected by disaster every year. Ethnic people lost their homes and their livelihoods, Disaster is happening typically, floods, droughts and landslidesand...
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Building Resiliency in the Pacific: How ADB is Addressing Climate Change and Disaster Risks
ကိုကိုး (ကီးလင်း) ကျွန်း
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Asian Development Bank
2017
The Pacific operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) cover 14 developing member countries (DMCs). These countries have established national policies and institutions to...
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Cambodia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to UNFCCC
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား
Issue and policy briefs
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
2015
Cambodia recognises the need for respecting the principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in particular the principle of ‘common but...
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Ecological and socio-economic values of Mangrove ecosystems in tsunami affected areas: Rapid ecological-economic-livelihood assessment of Ban Naca and Ban Bangman in Ranong Province, Thailand
ထိုင််း
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
IUCN
Framed after the devastation of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the aim of this study is to explore the role that mangrove ecosystems play in providing and sustaining livelihoods...
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Climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin, an analysis of economic values at risk
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, ထိုင််း, ဗီယက်နမ်
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Talberth, John, Reytar, Katie
2014
This report draws from a 2013 USAID analysis of climate change impacts in the Lower Mekong Basin that forecasts more extreme temperatures, rainfall, weather events and sea level...
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Internal labor migration as a shock-coping strategy: Evidence from a typhoon
ဗီယက်နမ်
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Andre Groger, Yanos Zylberberg
2014
The aim of this paper is to analyze how internal labor migration facilitates shock-coping in rural economies, using the example of Vietnam. Employing highly precise satellite...
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Climate smart community based disaster risk reduction in the Mekong, Vietnam
ဗီယက်နမ်
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Australian Red Cross,German Red Cross,Vietnam Red Cross
2012
A project design for Vietnam Red Cross to address climate smart community-based disaster risk reduction. The document contains an analysis of the situation, existing Red Cross...
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Flood management and development planning, the allocation of risk
ဗီယက်နမ်
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Reis, Nadine
2007
This paper aims to review current flood management in relation to the long-term development planning in Vietnam. The report discusses perceptions of flood risk and how these...
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Assessing institutional capacities for flood disaster risk reduction
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, ဗီယက်နမ်, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, ထိုင််း, မြန်မာ, တရုတ်
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Lebel, Louis
Floods are the most frequent and devastating natural disasters in the Asian region. Their impact has grown in spite of our improved ability to monitor and describe them. This...
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Risk-sensitive development in Asia, 12th meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) on Disaster Management
ထိုင််း, ဗီယက်နမ်, ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, မြန်မာ, မလေးရှား, အင်ဒိုနီးရှား, စင်္ကာပူ, ဖိလစ်ပိုင်, ဘရူနိုင်းဒါရုဆလင်, ခရစ္စမတ်ကျွန်း, တီမော လက်စ်တေ, ကိုကိုး (ကီးလင်း) ကျွန်း
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management
2015
Proceedings of the 12th Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management, held 16-18 June 2015 in Bhutan. This document provides background on the RCC, disaster risk...
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The human cost of weather related disasters 1995-2015
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, ဗီယက်နမ်, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, ထိုင််း, မြန်မာ, တရုတ်
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters; UNISDR
2015
This report presents an analysis of global weather-related disaster trends over a twenty year time-frame, and highlights the need for a new climate change agreement from the...
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Annual rates of lightning fatalities by country
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, ဗီယက်နမ်, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, ထိုင််း, မြန်မာ, တရုတ်
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Holle, Ronald L.
2008
This study builds on an earlier study on the worldwide casualty toll from lightning. The present paper synthesizes data that are available on lightning deaths by country. It...
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Floods and droughts in the Lower Mekong Basin and implications of climate change
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, ဗီယက်နမ်, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, ထိုင််း
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Joy, Christopher
2012
A working paper outlining risk management relating to floods and droughts in the Lower Mekong Basin. The report explains flood and drought risk in the region, and the impact on...