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A Political Economy of Environmental Impact Assessment in the Mekong Region
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a central process in sustainable development to reduce and mitigate anticipated impacts of development projects. Every national governme...
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Myanmar Special Economic Zone Law, 2014 (2014, The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 1/2014) 8th Waning of Pyatho 1375 ME (2014, January 23)
This is the overarching legislation in Myanmar regarding SEZs. It creates the Central Body, Central Working Body, and Management Committees and outlines their responsibilities.
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Dawei Special Economic Zone
This website contains information about the old and new Dawei SEZ website and one stop services for investors looking to invest in Dawei.
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2021: Events of 2020
This 31st annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in nearly 100 countries and territories worldwide in 2020. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human R...
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ZONED OUT: A comprehensive impact evaluation of Mekong economic development zone
This report presents a study that applies publicly available information to assess foreign-invested economic development zones (EDZs) across the Mekong region. Analysis of EDZ's...
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Mekong Women in Open Data
Gender inequality underscores the lives of women all over the world. It is rooted in systems of governance and cultural norms that function to perpetuate this inequality. The sy...
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Mekong Infrastructure Tracker
"The Mekong Infrastructure Tracker database builds on existing data to present a comprehensive source of information on energy, transportation, and water infrastructure in the M...
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Special Economic Zones and Land Dispossession in The Mekong Region
Special economic zones (SEZs) have become a one-size-fit-all policy solution for governments eager to expand their industrial economy. Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet...
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Global Lakes and Wetlands Database
The combination of best available sources for lakes and wetlands on a global scale (1:1 to 1:3 million resolution), and the application of GIS functionality enabled the generati...
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Women Migration and Women's Land Tenure Security in the greater Mekong sub-region
This report considers the interlinkages between migration, gender, and land tenure. The study on which the report is based explored how migration affects women’s land tenure sec...
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Global Distribution of Coral Reefs (2018)
This dataset shows the global distribution of coral reefs in tropical and subtropical regions. It is the most comprehensive global dataset of warm-water coral reefs to date, act...
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Metallic and Non Metallic Mining Development Potential Index
Metallic Mining Development Potential Index: This global dataset continuously ranks from >0 (minimal) to 1 (highest) all suitable lands at a 1-km resolution for metallic mining...
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Geo-referencing of Ethnic Groups in Mekong Region
The “Geo-referencing of ethnic groups” (GREG) dataset employs geographic information systems (GIS) to represent group territories as polygons.
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Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) in Mekong Region
Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) is a continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers. The index increases for each day without rain (the amou...
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Tiger Conservation Landscape
These three data sets produced by WWF and RESOLVE showing the location of the current tiger habitat and priority areas for habitat conservation. Tiger Conservation Landscapes (T...
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The Impacts of Hydropower Dams in the Mekong River Basin: A Review
This paper explores the social and environmental impacts of several Mekong basin hydropower dams and groupings of dams and the geographies of their impacts; the examination of t...
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Greater Mekong Subregion Distribution of Mangroves; Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar (2000)
This dataset shows the distribution of mangrove forests, derived from earth observation satellite imagery for the Greater Mekong Subregion including Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam ...
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Hansen Forest Cover Loss 2000-2019: Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar
This update of gross forest cover loss includes new 2019 loss-year and multispectral imagery layers. Relative to the version 1.0 product our method has been modified in numerous...
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CCI Land cover - 300 m annual global land cover time series from 1992 to 2015
In the framework of the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) of the European Space Agency, the CCI Land Cover partnership is pleased to announce the official release of the CCI 300 m...
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Regional Land Cover
The dataset contains a raster version of the GlobCover land cover map produced for the year 2009, clipped to the Greater Mekong Region. The land cover image is derived from the ...