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Infrastructure and tonle sap fisheries : how to balance infrastructure development and fisheries livelihoods? The challenge facing decision-makers in Cambodia
Type: Brief
Cambodia's inland fisheries are the most intensive worldwide and the fourth largest overall after China, India, and Bangladesh. This brief helps decision-makers maximize the benefits of infrastructure development, while ...
Wetlands governance in the Mekong Region: country reports on the legal-institutional framework and economic valuation of aquatic resources
Type: Report
Wetlands are central to the livelihoods of rural communities through out the Mekong Region, providing vital functions and services that support the rural economy, ensure food security for the most vulnerable membrs of ...
Enabling alternative livelihoods for aquatic resource dependent communities of the Tonle Sap: summary note
Type: Report
This research note is provided as a supplement to the technical report, “Influence of Built Structures on Livelihoods: Case Studies of Road Development, Irrigation, and Fishing Lots," as part of the livelihoods component ...
The politics of regional governance in the Mekong River Basin
Type: Journal Article
The opportunities for the six states that share the Mekong River to benefit directly from its joint management are more limited and the risks to the livelihoods of downstream communities from development schemes more ...
Equity, efficiency and identity: grounding the debate over population and sustainability
Type: Journal Article
If social scientists are to provide a more useful contribution to international debates over population and environment, we must find ways to combine the insights of our competing theoretical traditions. Political economy, ...
Coping with disaster: rehabilitating coastal livelihoods and communities
Type: Journal Article
This paper examines lessons from past approaches to natural disasters, as well as early lessons from the post-2004 Asian tsunami rehabilitation, to draw out general principles for rehabilitating livelihoods in poor coastal ...
Watershed governance: livelihoods and resource competition in the mountains of mainland Southeast Asia
Type: Other
This paper examines the challenges of managing the upper watersheds of mainland Southeast Asia, taking local livelihoods and resource competition as its point of departure. The analysis presents the factors of change that ...
Influence of built structures on local livelihoods: case studies of road development, irrigation and fishing lots
Type: Report
This report documents the results from an assessment of the influence of built structures on the livelihoods of Tonle Sap communities, as part of the livelihoods component of the “Study of the Influence of Built Structures ...
Undervalued and overlooked: sustaining rural livelihoods through better governance of wetlands
Type: Working Paper
Increasing awareness about wetlands is essential to improving their management, but it is not enough. Also needed are fundamental shifts in the ways that wetland resources are valued, and in the ways that decisions are ...