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National policy environmental and social sustainability of the Hydropower sector in lao PDR, No.561 CP
Sustainable development of the hydro-power sector is founded on three important principles: (a) economic sustainability relies upon the maintenance of the renewable resource ba...
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Lao PDR investment climate assessment 2014: Policy uncertainty in the midst of a natural resources boom
The World Bank undertakes periodic Investment Climate Assessments in order to provide policymakers with a better understanding of how the private sector is performing and where ...
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Food security and livelifood improvement through sustainable agriculture and community based natural resource management
Purpose to set up Community Forestry is to protect rights on land/forest and to protect precious spieces
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Final Report Laos Resource Mapping and Farmer Input Market Studies of the Vietnam-Laos Bamboo Frasibility Stud
Executive Summary This study is the first attempt to provide background information on the bamboo sector in Laos in general, and in Houaphan and Xiengkhouang Province in particu...
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Sustainable sloping lands and watershed management linking research to strengthen upland policies and practices December 12 - 15, 2006 Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
The Government of Lao PDR is determined to eradicate extreme poverty and move beyond the category of Least Developed Country by the year 2020. The uplands and upper watershed ca...
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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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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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Stakeholder Participation in REDD+ Readiness Activities for Three Collaborative Projects in Lao PDR 2017
The importance of stakeholder participation in REDD+ schemes is well recognized both at UNFCCC negotiations[2,4] and in several REDD+ projects In 2007, the COP recogn...
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Dealing with social aspects in hydropower development
A training manual by Dieter Heinsohn on Dealing with social aspects in hydropower development published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in ...
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Climate change and hydropower development
A training material by Joerg Hartmann on climate change and hydropower development published in May 2014 by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH i...
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Green Growth Strategy
Green growth, as a means to achieve a low carbon economy and to enrich natural capital, will become the principal direction in sustainable economic development; reduction of gre...
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Emerging market for sustainable food in Bangkok
This paper analyses the process of change towards sustainable food consumption in Bangkok. The authors investigate how consumers and the system of provision interact in retail o...
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Access and Benefit Sharing
This book on Access and Benefit-Sharing has the objective to enhance better understanding of principles of access to genetic resources and fair and equitable sharing of their be...
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Press Release: The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of The Philippines v. The People's Republic of China)
Press release on the outcome of the arbitration instituted by the Republic of the Philippines against the People’s Republic of China
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What is Ocean Acidification?
Archived definition of ocean acidification from US National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration
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Options for monitoring forest degradation in northern Vietnam: an assessment in systems design and capacity building needs in Con Cuong District, Nghe An province
The report is about options for monitoring forest degradation in northern Vietnam based on an assessment in systems design and capacity-building needs in Con Cuong District. The...
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World Development Indicators
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI), 2015.
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Sustainable banking in ASEAN: Addressing ASEAN's forests, landscapes, climate, water, societies
The report presents a comprehensive overview of the level of disclosure against the key pillars of corporate governance and ESG integration across the ASEAN banking sector, agai...
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Royal Decree on the Establishment of the Tonle Sap Basin Management Authority
The purpose of this Royal Decree is about the Establishment of the Tonle Sap Basin Management Authority in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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An overview of large scale investments in the Mekong
This paper presents an overview of large scale investments trends in the Mekong region, the regulatory and policy changes designed to facilitate large-scale foreign and domestic...