Add to ORKGThis MP analyzes the relationship between fast economic development and the environment. My objective was to learn if the ecosystems were strongly disturbed by the economic and industrial development process. In cases where ecosystems were lost, if this process was bringing negative social effects to the population, or if the inhabitants preferred the new economic opportunities brought by the development process (investments, jobs and infrastructure). In order to better understand the problem, I have chosen to investigate rubber plantations, one type of private investment project that is very popular in the Luang Namtha region in northern Laos. I view this type of business as a microcosm of the more general sociological and environmental di...
Rubber smallholdings are being established by shifting cultivators in Northern Laos, in response to ...
In the first decade of the twenty-first century Non-Traditional Security (NTS) challenges are of ris...
Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of ...
In Laos rubber plantation investment has increased significantly in recent years, supported by the G...
Rubber trees have been planted in the Northern Province of Laos since the mid-1990s, with tapping be...
The riparian countries of the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) are endowed with a richness of natural resour...
The Mekong River, in its over 4,300 kilometers, passes through China and five different countries th...
The government of Laos long term policy is aiming at reducing rural poverty and stabilize shifting c...
The main purpose of this thesis is to identify the role of sustainable development in Laos, based on...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/For centuries, farmers in the...
Land relations in the Mekong Region are marked by the densely populated and intensively cultivated l...
For centuries, farmers in the mountainous region of mainland Southeast Asia have practiced shifting ...
As transitions in agrarian systems have increasingly extended from core agricultural areas to incorp...
Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region for as...
© 2012 Dr. Somvang PhimmavongOver the past decade, the world has observed a major growth in the deve...
Rubber smallholdings are being established by shifting cultivators in Northern Laos, in response to ...
In the first decade of the twenty-first century Non-Traditional Security (NTS) challenges are of ris...
Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of ...
In Laos rubber plantation investment has increased significantly in recent years, supported by the G...
Rubber trees have been planted in the Northern Province of Laos since the mid-1990s, with tapping be...
The riparian countries of the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) are endowed with a richness of natural resour...
The Mekong River, in its over 4,300 kilometers, passes through China and five different countries th...
The government of Laos long term policy is aiming at reducing rural poverty and stabilize shifting c...
The main purpose of this thesis is to identify the role of sustainable development in Laos, based on...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/For centuries, farmers in the...
Land relations in the Mekong Region are marked by the densely populated and intensively cultivated l...
For centuries, farmers in the mountainous region of mainland Southeast Asia have practiced shifting ...
As transitions in agrarian systems have increasingly extended from core agricultural areas to incorp...
Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region for as...
© 2012 Dr. Somvang PhimmavongOver the past decade, the world has observed a major growth in the deve...
Rubber smallholdings are being established by shifting cultivators in Northern Laos, in response to ...
In the first decade of the twenty-first century Non-Traditional Security (NTS) challenges are of ris...
Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of ...