The results of the analysis of disaggregated household-level data (n=1602) from the Lao PDR in 2011 suggest that a poverty–environment nexus exists where the most explicit relations were those between poverty and using fuelwood for cooking, and poverty and access to safe drinking water, whereas recent negative changes regarding deforestation and land erosion exhibited only a weak connection.
We analyzed the multi-temporal and multi-seasonal NOAA AVHRR satellite data of 1985/86, and 1992/93 and SPOT VEGETATION data of 1999/2000 to (1) prepare historical land cover maps and (2) to identify areas undergoing major land cover transformations (called "hot spots") in the region. The identified "hot spot" areas were investigated using high-resolution satellite data such as Landsat and SPOT supplemented by intensive field survey.
The Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia was established in May 1993 to support training and research in environmental and resource economics. Its goal is to strengthen local capacity for the economic analysis of environmental problems so that researchers can provide sound advice to policymakers. The program uses a networking approach to provide not only financial support but meetings, resource persons, access to literature, publication outlets, and opportunities for comparative research across its ten member countries.
Sing district is the northern most districts in Luang Namtha province bordering China and Burma. The current study examines demographic change, and its impact on land use in Sing district. Furthermore, it compares the process of land use intensification in seven villages and looks into how land use intensification affects local resource tenure, and the economic relationship between villages and households.
In this paper, the author looks into the links between farming practices, farm family functioning and land management.
This paper relates a series of lessons in terms of achievements and challenges of protected areas, their management and their role in national and community development in the Lao PDR. (from Introduction)
The authors suggest that examination of the poverty-environment nexus in one country may not be generalizable to others.
