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Mekong River: In the Economy
This Mekong River in the Economy (MRitE) report is intended to reframe the debate around development and water resources management. The focus of the report is to reduce the com...
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Hydropower in Lao PDR
A government-provided overview of the major sources of hydropower in Laos.
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UN MDG 7 Factsheet: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond 2015
UN Millennium Development Goals (Goal 7) Fact Sheet
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Addressing disputes and conflicts over the tenure of natural resources
Understanding the normative environment is required to understand the nature of disputes and conflict in a given context. The process of analysing disputes and conflicts require...
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Land degradation in Laos: Materiality and discourses
Building on recent debates related to environment change an knowledge production, this paper examines the social construction and political outcomes of the current official disc...
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Land and Forest Allocation in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Comparison of Case Studies from Community-Based Natural Resource Management Research
The key objectives of the workshop were:To learn from the experience of other countries how they have dealt with the question of state, private and community ownership over land...
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Community-based Natural Resource Management and Watershed Resource Conflicts: a Case Study from Nam Ngum, Lao PDR 1998
There are several dimensions of resource competition and actual or potential resource conflict in the NamNgum Watershed. Most immediately for manycommunities, competition betwe...
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Analysis of Project 41924 - 014 : Nam Ngiep 1 Hydropower Project , Lao PDR
Analyzes a foreign investment into a Lao hydro power project, and its impact on local population. Provides recommendations on conducting environmental impact studies and engagin...
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Agro-ecological assessment of Phonxay District, Luang Phrabang Province, Lao PDR
Assessment of Phaxay District in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, including biophysical information, socio-economic, demographic and administrative data collected for the purpose of crea...
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Water-related changes and vulnerabilities in the Xe Bang Fai Basin 2016
The 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that the loss of life and economic assets from flooding represent a major climate-related risk in ...
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Indigenous Peoples’ and land: Comparing communal land titling and its implications in Cambodia and Laos
In recent years there have been significant changes in how the category of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ has become conceptualised in Cambodia. Indeed, in 1993, neither Indigenous ...
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Quantitative Indicators for Common Property Tenure Security
Secure access to natural resources through systems of common property forms the basis for the livelihoods of many of the world’s poor.
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Workshop program: Sustainability of Natural Rubber in the 21st Century Current Status and Future Outlook
Natural rubber (NR) plays a crucial role in the land-use of SE-Asia
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Environmental management standard for electricty project.
The purpose of this standard is to provide the minimum requirements for Social Impact Assessment as part of the Environmental Assessment process for Electricity Project in Lao PDR.
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Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)
This is the first country-wide food security study undertaken in the Lao PDR. Its purpose is to provide WFP and its partners with a good understanding of the nature a...
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Undermining lives in laos
This mining project is an example of unsustainable development that would generate severe negative and irreversible social and environment impact, The world bank IFC and the Aus...
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Linking agriculture, natural resource management and nutrition experiences from Lao PDR 2015
Improved food availability and access •More and more different food items produced •More different food items collected from forests Improved Food consumption: •Higher Diet...
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About a river: Profling the Nam Ou 2016
Close to 75 % of people in the three Nam Ou River Basin provinces in rural areas. on average 15% of the rural people int he Nam Ou River Basin o not have road access. Phongsaly ...
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Forestry legality compendium as a tool for timber legality development and supply chain control for production forest
• A comprehensive resource on legal information about forest and timber. • Identifying gaps, conflicts and areas that may need to be addressed - need to identify priorities.
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Notification of banning harvesting and storage of tree
Notification of banning harvesting and storage of tree