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Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Princeton University, WoldFish Center
2012
The Mekong River Basin, site of the biggest inland fishery in the world, is undergoing massive hydropower development. Planned dams will block critical fish migration routes bet...
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IUCN Red List for the Lower Mekong
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
July 21, 2022
Source: IUCN 2015. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version...
Data from the The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015-4 and updated to include list from 2021, showing the total number of animal species in each category of the Red List, ...
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Indigenous data sovereignty in the Mekong Region
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Pyrou Chung and Mia Chung
2019
The Mekong region is home to over 100 indigenous and ethnically distinct communities who have struggled to retain their autonomy. While each group of indigenous and ethnic minor...
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River, Knowledge, Threat: Local Knowledge Based Research in Tanintharyi River Basin
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tanintharyi River and Indigenous People Network (TRIPNET)
2019
The report shows the result of four years of collaborative work by indigenous Karen people from multiple forest-dependent communities in the Tanintharyi River basin. It is commu...
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Evidence of water quality degradation in Lower Mekong Basin revealed by self organizing map
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ratha Chea, Gaël Grenouillet, Sovan Lek, CNRS, Université Toulouse...
2016
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 Low...
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Equity Case Study Brief #5
Thailand
Case studies
The Centre for People and Forest (RECOFTC)
2015
This is a constructive equity case in community-based forest governance, focusing on the development of a mechanism for community participation in natural resource management. I...
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Reckless Development: The IFC’s Dodgy Deals in Southeast Asia
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
Dustin Roasa and Natalie Bugalski
2017
Report on financial chain mapping on financiers of infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia.
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Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labour: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ian G. Baird
2011
In recent years the government of Laos has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in ...
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Rice: The fabric of life in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Gorsuch, Joyce
2002
A report about the challenges and achievements of the rice sector in Laos. The report covers the challenge of establishing a reliable supply of rice in Laos, the challenges of f...
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The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Books and book chapters
James C Scott
2009
This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reac...
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How land concessions affect places elsewhere: Telecoupling, political ecology, and large-scale plantations in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Baird,Ian G., Fox, Jefferson
2015
This study investigates the implications of large-scale land concessions in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia with regard to places outside of actual concession areas, bot...
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Impact of climate change on sediment yield in the Mekong River basin: a case study of the Nam Ou basin, Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Shrestha, B., Babel, M. S.; Maskey, S.; van Griensven, A.;...
2013
This paper evaluates the impact of climate change on sediment yield in the Nam Ou basin, northern Laos. Future climate (temperature and precipitation) from four general circulat...
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Mineral production and value 2014 and 2016
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
April 27, 2016
Source: World Mining Congress. World Mining Data. Volume 31: Minerals...
Data taken from the World Mining Congress on production and value of minerals mined in the Lower Mekong in 2014 and 2016. Compiled for an interactive visualization used on the O...
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Who will bear the cost of REDD+? Evidence from subnational REDD+ initiatives
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Luttrell C, Sills E, Aryani R, Ekaputri AD and Evnike MF
2016
While REDD+ has increasingly been accepted in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations and regional and voluntary markets for carbon offsets, ...
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Examining the Alignment Between the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions and Sustainable Development Goals
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Timor-Leste, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Korea, Republic of, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Northrop, Eliza, Hana Biru, Sylvia Lima, Mathilde Bouye, and Ranping Song
2016
This working paper explores the extent to which the two agendas of the Paris Agreement and the SDGs are aligned in a concrete way by identifying examples of climate actions in t...
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The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2016
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
L. Ababouch, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
2016
A report by L. Ababouch on The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2016 Contributing to food security and nutrition for all, published in Rome, Italy by FAO Fisheries and A...
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Low-Carbon Transport Policy in Four ASEAN Countries: Developments in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam
Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Bakker, S.; Dematera Contreras, K.; Kappiantari, M.; Tuan, N.A.;...
2017
Emerging countries in Southeast Asia are facing considerable challenges in addressing rising motorisation and its negative impact on air quality, traffic, energy security, livea...
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Report of the ASEAN regional assessment of the MDG achievement and post-2015 development priorities
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), United Nations
2015
Since 2000, the eight MDGs have had a significant impact on the global agenda for development, defining priorities, measuring progress, and driving results for global poverty re...
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Watershed summaries of LMB countries
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
April 10, 2015
Source: WRI, IUCN, IWMI, Ramsar
A collection of summaries of the watersheds within the five LMB countries.
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Basic statistics 2015 (indicators of the Millennium Development Goals)
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Asian Development Bank
2015
Basic Statistics 2015 covers the indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as the proportion of population living below $1.25 (PPP) a day, infant mortality rate...