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  • Agriculture, value added (% of GDP)

    World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files. Agriculture corresponds to ISI divisions 1-5 and includes forestry, hunting, and fishing, as well as cu...

  • Freshwater withdrawals as a share of internal resources, 2014

    Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals from agriculture, industry and municipal/domestic uses. Withdrawals can exceed 100% of total renewable resources w...

  • What is Ocean Acidification?

    Archived definition of ocean acidification from US National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration

  • Women in Fisheries in Asia

    This paper begins with a review of the cultural and political background of selected Asian countries (Bangladesh,Cambodia, Kuwait, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, the Lao PDR, Ma...

  • Lao PDR’s Ramsar sites, Xe Champhone and Beung Kiat Ngong wetlands, learn from each other

    This is an archived press release from the IUCN discussing a capacity development program sharing knowledge about wetland conservation management and conflict resolution for the...

  • Fishbase: List of Freshwater Fishes reported from Lao (People's Democratic Republic) (landlocked)

    FishBase is a global biodiversity information system on fishes. Its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species has now grown to ha...

  • An introduction to the fisheries of the Lao PDR

    The report is about an introduction to the fisheries in Laos where capture fisheries and aquaculture relies upon water resource ecosystems mainly consisting of rivers and stream...

  • Rescaling and Reordering Nature–Society Relations: The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Dam and Laos–Thailand Electricity Networks

    This article seeks to interrogate these links, showing how the hydrological flows of the XBF River are now transformed by regional power grids that are heavily shaped by fluctua...

  • Wetland Priority Sites in Lao PDR - the top five priority sites

    This presentation discusses Wetland Priority Sites in LAO PDR and prepared for: Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment for the Wetlands of the Lower Mekong Basin f...

  • Environmental and Social Management Framework: Protected Area And Wildlife Project

    This Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) has been prepared for the Protected Area and Wildlife Project (PAW). The project aims to strengthen the management syst...

  • Review of the National Protected Area System of Lao PDR

    This review presents the report on the National Protected Area System of Lao PDR. It provides current status of legal, policy and institutional frameworks, biodiversity signific...

  • Economic, social and environmental impacts of investments in mining

    This issues brief series is developed by the Poverty‐ Environment Initiative of Lao PDR to address poverty and environment issues in the current development and national plann...

  • Organic by default: Myth or Reality? Evidence from the Lao PDR

    This presentation presents Organic Agriculture in Lao PDR and discusses important and positive changes to the farming & marketing practices of smallholder rice farmers as well a...

  • Logistics Capacity Assessment: Lao People's Democratic Republic

    The Logistics Capacity Assessment (LCA) is a long-standing tool of WFP Logistics. Since 2008, it has provided an important source of information related to the logistics infrast...

  • Energy sector in the Greater Mekong Subregion (evaluation of Asian Development Bank assistance)

    This report presents the findings, lessons, and recommendations of an independent assessment of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) assistance to the energy sector in the Greater...

  • Hydrological, environmental and socio-economic modelling tools for the Lower Mekong Basin impact assessment: EIA 3D Model Manual, Draft

    A draft training manual on the EIA 3D Model software system, a 3D model based on rectangular grid representation. This software accommodates meteorological, hydrological, topogr...

  • Dam EIAs enable “river grabbing” (Mae Khan Dam project)

    An article about the proposed Mae Khan Dam project in Thailand. The article outlines the opposition from the villagers of Mae Khanil-Tai, and describes how opposing dam projects...

  • Final environmental impact assessment, Lao Greater Mekong Subregion Nam Ngum 3 Hydropower Project

    Final environmental impact assessment of the Nam Ngum 3 Hydropower Project. The report describes the project and the physical, biological and socio-cultural environment. The rep...

  • Urbanization projection 2010-2030

    UN HABITAT projections for percentage of urbanization of populations across the Lower Mekong. It shows urban population level at 2010, and projected additional urban population ...

  • SDG index and dashboards: Lao PDR and neighbours

    Global report of SDG index and dashboards of progress towards the SDGs. Regional report on Laos, China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

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