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China agrees to engage more closely with its Southeast Asian neighbours over controversial hydropower projects and water resources

This thesis uses discourse to analyze how different story-lines of hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin reproduce the concept of sustainable development. With actors...

A government-provided overview of the major sources of hydropower in Laos.

Discusses the Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Plant. Originally proposed for its power generation benefits to Lao PDR, the Nam Ngum 1 Dam creates significant additional benefits, includin...

This report examines the resettlement of people for Nam Ngum 2, a 615-megawatt hydroelectric dam in central Lao PDR. The author identifies several human and environmental rights...

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...

Similar to the last decade, the resource sectors ( hydropower and extractives ) continued to make an important contribution to growth.

The Basin Development Plan Phase 2 (BDP2) is designed to provide an integrated basin perspective through the participatory development of a rolling Integrated Water Resources Ma...

1. To improve the information system to promote better understanding among key stakeholders on the way in which the power generation process is concerned with land and water use...

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia. Yet it has great potential for hydropower development, and the Government of Lao...

A presentation about Mekong Delta wetlands in Vietnam. The presenter discusses Mekong habitats and biodiversity and the economic importance of the Delta. They then discuss key c...

A training manual on hydropower and economic development.

A training manual by Brian Hollingworth on comprehensive options assessment in hydropower development, published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ...

Exploring the environmental and social policies and project performance of the Chinese overseas hydropower industry; Comparing of the environmental and social policies of Chine...

A training manual by Dieter Heinsohn on Dealing with social aspects in hydropower development published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in ...

This issue brief – the second in Stimson’s “Letters from the Mekong” series – examines the current status of mitigation efforts at Laos’ Xayaburi and Don Sahong dam projects and...

The Sambor Hydropower Dam Alternatives Assessment was conducted by an international team of experts directed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) under a formal agreement (Me...

Press Release: [San Francisco, CA, April 2018] The Mekong River in Southeast Asia is the 8th largest river in the world, traversing eight countries with some 60 million people. ...

The preparation of the Plan will bring all existing, planned and potential water and related resources development projects in a joint basin planning process, through a combinat...

The mekong is a major transboundary central to the lives of the people in the southeast asia,Since 2006 contested plans have emerged for up to eleven dams on the lower mainstrea...