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  • Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests

    This article reviews the catastrophic impacts of dam collapse in the Southern Laos in July 2018 which results in deaths, devastated communities, forced thousands to flee and rip...

  • Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos: a very major landslide in December

    This article features a potential disaster, a land slide, after the construction of Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos.

  • Post-disaster needs assessment 2018 floods, Lao PDR

    Lao PDR has been severely affected by floods between July and September 2018. (currently says in recent months). On July 1819, Tropical Storm Son-Tinh caused heavy rains and flo...

  • Lao PDR Disaster Management Reference Handbook 2017

    The Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is intended to provide decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the disa...

  • A web-platform to assess the implications of climate and development uncertainties in managing water resources allocation and use in the Lower Mekong Region

    An online game / tool called Supporting Water Resources Management (SWARM) in Lower Mekong region (Southeast Asia) based on SEI's Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model.

  • Vulnerability assessment of climate risks in Attapeu province, Lao PDR

    The report of a study to assess household and community vulnerability to floods in Attapeu Province, Laos. This study is one of three assessing the potential consequences of cli...

  • Global Climate Risk Index

    The Global Climate Risk Index analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). Updated an...

  • Disaster risk management unit handbook

    Lao PDR has been affected by disaster every year. Ethnic people lost their homes and their livelihoods, Disaster is happening typically, floods, droughts and landslidesand for...

  • Building Resiliency in the Pacific: How ADB is Addressing Climate Change and Disaster Risks

    The Pacific operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) cover 14 developing member countries (DMCs). These countries have established national policies and institutions to ad...

  • Cambodia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to UNFCCC

    Cambodia recognises the need for respecting the principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in particular the principle of ‘common but diff...

  • Ecological and socio-economic values of Mangrove ecosystems in tsunami affected areas: Rapid ecological-economic-livelihood assessment of Ban Naca and Ban Bangman in Ranong Province, Thailand

    Framed after the devastation of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the aim of this study is to explore the role that mangrove ecosystems play in providing and sustaining livelihoods thro...

  • Climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin, an analysis of economic values at risk

    This report draws from a 2013 USAID analysis of climate change impacts in the Lower Mekong Basin that forecasts more extreme temperatures, rainfall, weather events and sea level...

  • Internal labor migration as a shock-coping strategy: Evidence from a typhoon

    The aim of this paper is to analyze how internal labor migration facilitates shock-coping in rural economies, using the example of Vietnam. Employing highly precise satellite da...

  • Climate smart community based disaster risk reduction in the Mekong, Vietnam

    A project design for Vietnam Red Cross to address climate smart community-based disaster risk reduction. The document contains an analysis of the situation, existing Red Cross a...

  • Flood management and development planning, the allocation of risk

    This paper aims to review current flood management in relation to the long-term development planning in Vietnam. The report discusses perceptions of flood risk and how these per...

  • Assessing institutional capacities for flood disaster risk reduction

    Floods are the most frequent and devastating natural disasters in the Asian region. Their impact has grown in spite of our improved ability to monitor and describe them. This p...

  • Risk-sensitive development in Asia, 12th meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) on Disaster Management

    Proceedings of the 12th Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management, held 16-18 June 2015 in Bhutan. This document provides background on the RCC, disaster risk reduc...

  • The human cost of weather related disasters 1995-2015

    This report presents an analysis of global weather-related disaster trends over a twenty year time-frame, and highlights the need for a new climate change agreement from the...

  • Annual rates of lightning fatalities by country

    This study builds on an earlier study on the worldwide casualty toll from lightning. The present paper synthesizes data that are available on lightning deaths by country. It...

  • Floods and droughts in the Lower Mekong Basin and implications of climate change

    A working paper outlining risk management relating to floods and droughts in the Lower Mekong Basin. The report explains flood and drought risk in the region, and the impact on...

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