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Offloading Risks & Avoiding Liabilities: How Financial Institutions Consider Hydropower Risks in Laos
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ame Trandem
2019
The collapse of Saddle Dam D of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam project in Southern Laos in July 2018 directed a great deal of public attention to the risks and dangers associated...
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Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
David J.H. Blake & Keith Barney
2018
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most...
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Dodgy deal: Lower Sesan 2 dam project
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား
Issue and policy briefs
Trandem, Ame, Bank Track
2013
Located on the Sesan River, just below the confluence of the Srepok River in Cambodia's Stung Treng Province Province, the large 420MW, $816 million Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam...
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Procedures for Notification, Prior Consultation and Agreement (PNPCA)
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Mekong River Commission (MRC)
2016
This publication describes the Procedures for Notification, Prior Consultation and Agreement (PNPCA) undertaken by MRC member countries for certain projects related to water use...
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Hydro CDM hall of shame
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
International Rivers
2012
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is meant to catalyze climate-friendly and sustainable projects in low-income countries. In Cambodia, despite a lack of sufficient...
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Final presentation of Cambodia Prek Liang I-II hydropower projects
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား
Archived web content
Kyung An Cable Co. Ltd.
2012
This screen shot demonstrates the final presentation about the hydropower dam project which will be developed at Prek Liang and surrounding areas, about 400 Km away from Phnom...
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All Hydropower Potential Must be Developed: Energy Official.
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Archived web content
Energy and Mines
2015
This media article argues presents the Laos PDR governments stance on hydropower projects in Laos. It cites government representatives' discussion about why Laos' hydpropower...
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Power Surge: The Impacts of Rapid Dam Development in Laos - An International Rivers Report
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
International Rivers
2008
This report presents the challenges that hydropower development poses to rural livelihoods and fragile ecosystems, and details the specific impacts caused by Lao dam projects....
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The people and their river, the World Bank and its Dam: Revisiting the Xe bang fai river in Laos
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Advocacy and promotional materials
Ian G. Baird, Bruce P. Shoemaker and Kanokwan Manorom
2015
According to the World Bank, ‘[NT2] demonstrates that hydro power projects can be designed and implemented to deliver sustainable outcomes through state-of-the-art environmental...
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Rescaling and Reordering Nature–Society Relations: The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Dam and Laos–Thailand Electricity Networks 2015
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, ထိုင််း
Advocacy and promotional materials
This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing,...
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Tools for policy dissemination
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Bridging the HydropowerPolicy-Implementation Gap (BPIG), Village...
2014
Disseminate policy details by using posters or pamphlets; Formed and trained Village Grievance Redress Committee(part of policy dissemination activity), 4 members per village.
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The socio-geography of mining and hydro in Lao PDR
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Fenton, N., and Lindelow, M., Fenton, N., and Lindelow, M.
This paper aims to analyze the spatial distribution of mining and hydro projects in Lao PDR.
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Village resettlement in Laos
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Paul Cunnington, SOGES
2011
A presentation of a consultant's findings regarding village resettlement in Laos, mostly due to hydropower dams. Includes analysis of the legal framework in Laos, drivers of...
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Dams, rivers and community rights
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
ອົງການແມ່ນ້ຳສາກົນ
2011
The changes that are made by the dam are not so easy to deal with. To make others respect your rights, it is essential that you yourself have a lot of education, know the plans...
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Realizing sustainable hydropower development opportunity in the Basin Development Strateg
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
ທ່ານ ດາວວົງ ພອນແກ້ວ, ກະຊວງພະລັງງານແລະການວາງແຜນ
National Policy on Environment and Social Sustainability of Hydropower Sector –now replaced by Policy on Sustainable Hydropower Development •Social and Environmental Standards...
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China Drives Water Cooperation with Mekong Countries
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား, တရုတ်, လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ, မြန်မာ, ထိုင််း, ဗီယက်နမ်
Archived web content
Sebastian Biba
2016
China agrees to engage more closely with its Southeast Asian neighbours over controversial hydropower projects and water resources
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Hydropower in Cambodia: Competing discursive story-lines of a contested development path
ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား
Advocacy and promotional materials
Johannes Nilsson
2015
This thesis uses discourse to analyze how different story-lines of hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin reproduce the concept of sustainable development. With actors...
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Hydropower in Lao PDR
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Archived web content
Department of Energy Business, Ministry of Energy and Mines
2014
A government-provided overview of the major sources of hydropower in Laos.
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Multiple use benefits: Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Plant, Lao PDR
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Advocacy and promotional materials
Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol
2005
Discusses the Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Plant. Originally proposed for its power generation benefits to Lao PDR, the Nam Ngum 1 Dam creates significant additional benefits,...
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Resettlement impacts of Nam Ngum 2 hydro-power project on community culture
လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Sengkham, S.
2007
This report examines the resettlement of people for Nam Ngum 2, a 615-megawatt hydroelectric dam in central Lao PDR. The author identifies several human and environmental rights...