-
Coastal strategy of Koh Kong
The Coastal Strategy of Koh Kong province serves as a master plan in which it expresses the collective vision of Koh Kong citizens regarding specifically natural resource and...
-
Booklet on natural resources and wildlife status in protected areas and northern biodiversity corridor, north Tonle Sap lake 2020
This booklet provides a useful source of information and related data on the status of wildlife presence, habitats, natural resources, protected area...
-
Environment and agricultural investment in Lao PDR: An assessment of impacts, gaps and needs of agricultural investors, local authorities and communities affected by investments
This report describes the current situation of environmental impacts arising from agricultural investments in northern Lao PDR, and identifies key gaps and needs of stakeholders...
-
Laos Statistical Yearbook 2017
The statistics yearbook are summarizing the data from provincial statistics Centre and from the line ministries concerned and ministry-equivalent agencies in the whole country...
-
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ဇီဝမျိုးကွဲများ၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများ
ဤစာတမ်းတွင် ဇီဝမျိုးကွဲများ၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး၊ လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းနှင့်စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းတို့အကြား ဆက်နွယ်မှုကို အထူးသဖြင့် ကုလမဂ္ဂ စီးပွားရေးနှင့်လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာလမ်းညွှန်မှုများ၏ကာ...
-
A Visit to the Mother River
The Mekong, which local people call their Mother River (or Mae Khong), is central to Chiang Khong’s way of life. However, its environment has been damaged as special economic...
-
Northern villagers feel 'zoned' out
The news of a Special Economic Zone on their doorstep was of little concern to the laid-back community in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai. They had their forest, or “natural...
-
The river ‘is not for sale’ warn Mekong villages
The locals of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand describe their lives as “three days of fishing, two days of drying the nets”. They fish the river in the rainy season, then as the...
-
Climate change vulnerability mapping for greater Mekong sub-region
It is well recognized that the impacts of climate change pose a serious threat to socio-economic, environment, and people’s livelihoods,particularly those in developing...
-
Impacts of mineral exploitation on forests and biodiversity in 2015
This report focuses on: Impacts of mining activities on forest resources and biodiversity in Minh Son commune; Benefit-sharing between the mining companies and the local...
-
Indigenous knowledge and customary law in natural resource management: Experiences in Yunnan, China and Haruku, Indonesia
Lands and territories inhabited by most indigenous peoples across the globe are rich in natural resources. Through generations of experimentation and as custodians, the...
-
Status of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, territories and resources in Asia
Indigenous Peoples, because of their subordination and distinctiveness from mainstream cultures and polities, have been and still are subjected to gross human rights violations,...
-
Research on the Roles and Contributions of Indigenous Women in Sustainable Forest Management in Mekong Countries
Indigenous women depend daily on the forests to supply the needs of their families for food, water, livelihood, firewood, shelter and health care.
-
Risks of Belt and Road Initiative Projects in ASEAN
This paper mainly analyzes the three most salient risks, namely fiscal risk, governance risk and environmental risk host countries of BRI might confront. First, the...
-
Vietnam 2035: Toward Prosperity, Creativity, Equity and Democracy
The year 2015 marks 70 years since Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence, 40 years since Reunification, and just short of 30 years from the launch of Doi Moi, which catapulted...
-
Evidence of water quality degradation in Lower Mekong Basin revealed by self organizing map
A report analysis by Ratha Chea, Gaël Grenouillet, Sovan Lek on evidence of water quality degradation in Lower Mekong Basin revealed by self organizing map, published in the...
-
ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိခိုက်မှု ဆန်းစစ်ခြင်းစနစ်ကို လေ့လာသုံးသပ်၍ ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်လာစေမည့် နည်းလမ်းများ ဖော်ထုတ်ခြင်း အကျဉ်းချုပ်
This brief provides understanding of Myanmar EIA systems and recommendations towards their strengthing.
-
Extreme weather events in developing countries and related injuries and mental health disorders - a systematic review
Due to climate change, extreme weather events have an incremental impact on human health. Injuries and mental health disorders are a particular burden of disease, which is...
-
State of the Basin report 2018
This State of the Basin Report 2018 assesses conditions within the Mekong basin and the impacts, both positive and negative, that developments and use of the water and related...
-
SITUATION UPDATE No. 9 Effect of TS 11 (Son-Tinh) and Situation of Xe-Pien and Xenamnoy Dam, Lao PDR
Due to monsoon season and heavy rainfall brought by TS 11 (Son-Tinh), 762 villages in 55 districts of 13 provinces have reported flooding as of 1 Aug 2018. This is a situation...