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Cambodia Forest Cover (2016)
The forest in Cambodia is playing important roles in ensuring environmental stability, mitigation climate change, contributing to national economic development and poverty allev...
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Bankrolling India’s dirty dozen
An analysis paper by Dustin Hoasa on the World Bank Group's lending practices, part 2 in Inclusive Development International (IDI)'s 'Outsourcing Development' series. Published ...
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[Draft] Initial Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (IESIA): An investment project in rubber plant development and processing in Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary, Sakream Commune, Prasat Balangk and Stoung District, Kampong Thom Province.
The objective of land use, BEAN HEACK Investment Co., Ltd, is to ensure sustainability of rubber plantations.
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Aqua Monitor: Thailand (1985-2016)
The Deltares Aqua Monitor is the first instrument that operates on a global scale, with a resolution of up to 30 metres, to show where water has been transformed into land and v...
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2016 Cluster Munition Remnants Report for Lao PDR
The Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) made concrete progress in 2015 towards establishing a credible and reliable estimate for national contamination from cluster muniti...
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Crazier than Fiction: the Elephant Rangers of Laos
Four years ago, as monsoon rain streaked down dusty windows, Sebastien Duffilot, the founder of Laos Elephant Conservation Centre (ECC) in Xayaboury, near Luang Prabang, and I s...
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Agrarian changes in southern Sayaboury Province, 2005-2014, and the status of conservation agriculture secondary reference.
In view of these major socioeconomic and agricultural changes (e.g. increasing land pressure, income diversification and changing labour, resources and capita...
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Agriculture strategy 2025
This research on the voices of an upland people, a look into the Taoy community and participatory development in Southern Laos, was conducted in the fulfillment of the requireme...
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Degradation in carbon stocks near tropical forest edges
Carbon stock estimates based on land cover type are critical for informing climate change assessment and landscape management, but field and theoretical evidence indicates that...
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SDGs WEEK: Global Water Partnership Southeast Asia's Significant Contribution in Networking Session. 27 November – 1 December 2017 Bangkok, Thailand.
Asia and the Pacific has made impressive progress towards achieving several sustainable development goals including poverty alleviation, education and economic growth. At the sa...
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Urban mobility and integrated transportation planning - Transfer of results of megacities research
Proceedings of a symposium about urban mobility and transportation planning. This report documents discussions on: 1) the interrelation between land use, settlement structure an...
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Strategic environmental assessment in the Greater Mekong Subregion (brief)
This brief outlines the value of strategic environmental assessment (SEA). It is argued that SEA can assist GMS decision makers to more effectively balance economic, social, and...
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Global Surface Water Mask
The 250m water mask product utilizes the SWBD (SRTM Water Body Data) and complement it with information from 250m MODIS data to create a complete representation of global surfac...
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Case Studies in South and East Asia: Forest Ownership, Forest Resource Tenure and Sustainable Forest Management
This case study on trends in forest ownership, forest resources tenure and institutional arrangements in Thailand was undertaken for FAO as a component of a regional study. A ma...
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Thailand Pak Mun hydropower dam case study TDRI
A cost-benefit analysis of Thailand's Pak Mun dam by TDRI commissioned by World Commission on Dams. Appraisal of economic and environmental costs. Critical comparisons of Est...
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Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952
Convention No.102 was adopted by the International Labour conference of the ILO on 28 June 1952 and sets a framework of common important basic social security principles on whic...
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Petroleum Act, B.E. 2514 (1971)
This Act shall apply to the operation of petroleum business throughout the Kingdom.
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Burma Business Roundup (May 24, 2013)
An NGO monitoring Burma’s oil, gas and mining industries said that despite international praise being heaped on the government many of its deals with companies remain “secretive...
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State of Corruption: The Top-Level Conspiracy Behind the Global Trade in Myanmar’s Stolen Teak
The forests of Myanmar are defined by their monetary value and have been part of the military and economic elites’ profits and, in some cases, survival for decades. The entire l...
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Payments for forest environmental services in Vietnam
The basic idea of “payments for environmental services”, or PES, is to create incentives for individuals and communities to protect environmental services by compensating them f...