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The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower project is considered as Laos' first major undertaking as a developmen... more The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower project is considered as Laos' first major undertaking as a development project within the mode of a transition market economy. At the core of this project is the role of international institutions, particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, in steering Laos towards a market economy through the mobilization of private capital and active participation of the private sector. Other instruments such as political risk mitigation, widespread consultation among stakeholders, and the Impoverishment, Risk and Rehabilitation (IRR) Framework complement the tools in the "market opening" package that will move Laos away from a socialist command and control economy to one that is more market-oriented.
International Journal of Development Issues, Jan 1, 2011
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse social and environmental sustainability consider... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse social and environmental sustainability considerations developed in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and to identify problems and challenges related to sustainable hydropower planning and development. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is leaning on empirical analysis based on analysing primary and secondary data and information; official government documents and relevant literature, a series of workshops of the Future Resource and Economy Policies in Laos till 2020 Project (FREPLA2020), and interviews with government officials and experts. Findings -To achieve its socio-economic objectives, Lao PDR needs to manage its hydropower development to ensure environmental and social sustainability through developing of the legal, institutional and regulatory environment and strengthening of the institutional capacity of the sector, improving knowledge and data management, and developing institutional coordination across the government agencies. Practical implications -The paper suggests that the Lao government assesses strategically the hydropower development options, prepares capacity building plans, develops risk assessment and management, and learns from past hydropower developments. Social implications -The paper recommends using hydropower development generated revenues to poverty reduction activities and to strengthen participatory approaches. Originality/value -The paper can act as a discussion awakener, to help and give some guidance to decision makers and actors in the hydropower sector to integrate sustainable development considerations into hydropower development and planning.
International Journal …, Jan 1, 2008
Modern Myths of the Mekong: critical review of water …, Jan 1, 2008
Land, Water, Rights, Jan 1, 2012
infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc... more infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc Dang, who took them just outside their homes near the source and mouth of the Mekong River. Tibet དྭངས་གཙང་གི་རྫ་ཆུ་ནི་གངས་ཅན་ཨ་མའི་ནུ་ཞོ་ཡིན། Gtsang gi rdza chu ni gangs can a'mi nu zho yin The holy Mekong River is the Snowland mother's milk China 你源远流长 孕育天下儿女 Ni yuan yuan liu zhang yun yu tian xia er nu You run a long course as the source of the people's lives Burma အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ာျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရအျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာေႏြ းေထြ းမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ား ျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရ အျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ May yin korn lo ginar nway htwe mu twa way, lo inn sandamyar phaybayta myit yaa Htarwara amyair see xay chin The river is our mother's heart and love; She gives us warmth and care We wish for our mother river to flow freely forever Lao PDR ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ຂອງໄຫຼຜ່ ານ້ຳແດນ້ຳລາວຊາວປະຊາໄດ້ ດື່ ມກິ ນ້ຳໃຊ້ ຢາກຂໍ ໄວ້ ໃຫ້ ມີ ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ເປັ ນ້ຳຄວາມງາມ ປະດັ ບໄວ້ ໃນໃຈລາວຕະຫຼອດໄປ Mae nam khong lai phan daen Lao xao pa sa dai duem kin sai Yak kor wai hai mee mae nam pen kwuam ngam Pa dab wai nai jai Lao talod pai The Mekong River flows through the land of Laos We Lao people rely on it for our lives We wish to hold the beauty of the Mekong in our hearts forever Mother Mekong ႕ ႕ ႕ ႕ Thailand คื อสายน� ้ าที ่ พวกเราได้ พึ ่ งพาด้ วยชี วิ ต ที ่ เชื ่ อมโยงให้ พวกเราได้ เป็ นมิ ตร คื อรั ก คื อความห่ วงใย Kue sai nam thi phuak rao dai pheung pha duay chiwit Thi cheuam yong hai phuak rao dai pen mit Kue rak kue khwam huang yai This is the river that we depend upon for our lives The river connects us in friendship It is what we love and care for Cambodia Yer som oi ton ley Mekong kons tat tey kong vong Yer sa ror sam rub pdol to tien mor jor jeiy jon We wish the Mekong long life and beauty She offers resources for our people Vietnam Sông Cửu Long chảy vào lòng biển cả Mang điệu hò hòa lẫn với phù sa Cùng bồi đắp cho mối tình sông nước Của những con người hồn hậu thiết tha The Mekong River runs into the open sea's entrails Bringing songs with her silt and raising her love Through waterways past sincere and good-hearted people
Catch & culture, Jan 1, 2008
... also includes northeast Myanmar. China will commission several more hydro-electric dams acros... more ... also includes northeast Myanmar. China will commission several more hydro-electric dams across the mainstream over the next eight years. In the Lower Mekong Basin, there are currently no mainstream dams. But plans for ...
Land, Water, Rights, Jan 1, 2012
infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc... more infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc Dang, who took them just outside their homes near the source and mouth of the Mekong River. Tibet དྭངས་གཙང་གི་རྫ་ཆུ་ནི་གངས་ཅན་ཨ་མའི་ནུ་ཞོ་ཡིན། Gtsang gi rdza chu ni gangs can a'mi nu zho yin The holy Mekong River is the Snowland mother's milk China 你源远流长 孕育天下儿女 Ni yuan yuan liu zhang yun yu tian xia er nu You run a long course as the source of the people's lives Burma အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ာျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရအျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာေႏြ းေထြ းမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ား ျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရ အျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ May yin korn lo ginar nway htwe mu twa way, lo inn sandamyar phaybayta myit yaa Htarwara amyair see xay chin The river is our mother's heart and love; She gives us warmth and care We wish for our mother river to flow freely forever Lao PDR ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ຂອງໄຫຼຜ່ ານ້ຳແດນ້ຳລາວຊາວປະຊາໄດ້ ດື່ ມກິ ນ້ຳໃຊ້ ຢາກຂໍ ໄວ້ ໃຫ້ ມີ ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ເປັ ນ້ຳຄວາມງາມ ປະດັ ບໄວ້ ໃນໃຈລາວຕະຫຼອດໄປ Mae nam khong lai phan daen Lao xao pa sa dai duem kin sai Yak kor wai hai mee mae nam pen kwuam ngam Pa dab wai nai jai Lao talod pai The Mekong River flows through the land of Laos We Lao people rely on it for our lives We wish to hold the beauty of the Mekong in our hearts forever Mother Mekong ႕ ႕ ႕ ႕ Thailand คื อสายน� ้ าที ่ พวกเราได้ พึ ่ งพาด้ วยชี วิ ต ที ่ เชื ่ อมโยงให้ พวกเราได้ เป็ นมิ ตร คื อรั ก คื อความห่ วงใย Kue sai nam thi phuak rao dai pheung pha duay chiwit Thi cheuam yong hai phuak rao dai pen mit Kue rak kue khwam huang yai This is the river that we depend upon for our lives The river connects us in friendship It is what we love and care for Cambodia Yer som oi ton ley Mekong kons tat tey kong vong Yer sa ror sam rub pdol to tien mor jor jeiy jon We wish the Mekong long life and beauty She offers resources for our people Vietnam Sông Cửu Long chảy vào lòng biển cả Mang điệu hò hòa lẫn với phù sa Cùng bồi đắp cho mối tình sông nước Của những con người hồn hậu thiết tha The Mekong River runs into the open sea's entrails Bringing songs with her silt and raising her love Through waterways past sincere and good-hearted people
Environmental …, Jan 1, 2011
We compared the effects of water resource development on migratory fish in two North American riv... more We compared the effects of water resource development on migratory fish in two North American rivers using a descriptive approach based on four highlevel indicators: (1) trends in abundance of Pacific salmon, (2) reliance on artificial production to maintain fisheries, (3) proportion of adult salmon that are wild-versus hatchery-origin, and (4) number of salmon populations needing federal protection to avoid extinction. The two rivers had similar biological and physical features but radically different levels of water resource development: the Fraser River has few dams and all are located in tributaries, whereas the Columbia River has more than 130 large mainstem and tributary dams. Not surprisingly, we found substantial effects of development on salmon in the Columbia River. We related the results to potential effects on migratory fish in the Mekong River where nearly 200 mainstem and tributary dams are installed, under construction, or planned and could have profound effects on its 135 migratory fish species. Impacts will vary with dam location due to differential fish production within the basin, with overall effects likely being greatest from 11 proposed mainstem dams. Minimizing impacts will require decades to design specialized fish passage facilities, dam operations, and artificial production, and is complicated by the Mekong's high diversity and productivity. Prompt action is needed by governments and fisheries managers to plan Mekong water resource development wisely to prevent impacts to the world's most productive inland fisheries, and food security and employment opportunities for millions of people in the region.
Catch and Culture, Jan 1, 2008
The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is endemic to the Mekong Basin and an exceptional ... more The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is endemic to the Mekong Basin and an exceptional example of its unique biodiversity. Growing up to three meters in length and over 300 kg in weight, this largely herbivorous giant has a historical range from the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam all the way upstream into Yunnan province of China. This long-distance migration is believed to be part of the life cycle requirements to find suitable feeding, spawning and nursing habitats.
The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower project is considered as Laos' first major undertaking as a developmen... more The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower project is considered as Laos' first major undertaking as a development project within the mode of a transition market economy. At the core of this project is the role of international institutions, particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, in steering Laos towards a market economy through the mobilization of private capital and active participation of the private sector. Other instruments such as political risk mitigation, widespread consultation among stakeholders, and the Impoverishment, Risk and Rehabilitation (IRR) Framework complement the tools in the "market opening" package that will move Laos away from a socialist command and control economy to one that is more market-oriented.
International Journal of Development Issues, Jan 1, 2011
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse social and environmental sustainability consider... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse social and environmental sustainability considerations developed in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and to identify problems and challenges related to sustainable hydropower planning and development. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is leaning on empirical analysis based on analysing primary and secondary data and information; official government documents and relevant literature, a series of workshops of the Future Resource and Economy Policies in Laos till 2020 Project (FREPLA2020), and interviews with government officials and experts. Findings -To achieve its socio-economic objectives, Lao PDR needs to manage its hydropower development to ensure environmental and social sustainability through developing of the legal, institutional and regulatory environment and strengthening of the institutional capacity of the sector, improving knowledge and data management, and developing institutional coordination across the government agencies. Practical implications -The paper suggests that the Lao government assesses strategically the hydropower development options, prepares capacity building plans, develops risk assessment and management, and learns from past hydropower developments. Social implications -The paper recommends using hydropower development generated revenues to poverty reduction activities and to strengthen participatory approaches. Originality/value -The paper can act as a discussion awakener, to help and give some guidance to decision makers and actors in the hydropower sector to integrate sustainable development considerations into hydropower development and planning.
International Journal …, Jan 1, 2008
Modern Myths of the Mekong: critical review of water …, Jan 1, 2008
Land, Water, Rights, Jan 1, 2012
infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc... more infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc Dang, who took them just outside their homes near the source and mouth of the Mekong River. Tibet དྭངས་གཙང་གི་རྫ་ཆུ་ནི་གངས་ཅན་ཨ་མའི་ནུ་ཞོ་ཡིན། Gtsang gi rdza chu ni gangs can a'mi nu zho yin The holy Mekong River is the Snowland mother's milk China 你源远流长 孕育天下儿女 Ni yuan yuan liu zhang yun yu tian xia er nu You run a long course as the source of the people's lives Burma အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ာျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရအျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာေႏြ းေထြ းမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ား ျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရ အျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ May yin korn lo ginar nway htwe mu twa way, lo inn sandamyar phaybayta myit yaa Htarwara amyair see xay chin The river is our mother's heart and love; She gives us warmth and care We wish for our mother river to flow freely forever Lao PDR ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ຂອງໄຫຼຜ່ ານ້ຳແດນ້ຳລາວຊາວປະຊາໄດ້ ດື່ ມກິ ນ້ຳໃຊ້ ຢາກຂໍ ໄວ້ ໃຫ້ ມີ ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ເປັ ນ້ຳຄວາມງາມ ປະດັ ບໄວ້ ໃນໃຈລາວຕະຫຼອດໄປ Mae nam khong lai phan daen Lao xao pa sa dai duem kin sai Yak kor wai hai mee mae nam pen kwuam ngam Pa dab wai nai jai Lao talod pai The Mekong River flows through the land of Laos We Lao people rely on it for our lives We wish to hold the beauty of the Mekong in our hearts forever Mother Mekong ႕ ႕ ႕ ႕ Thailand คื อสายน� ้ าที ่ พวกเราได้ พึ ่ งพาด้ วยชี วิ ต ที ่ เชื ่ อมโยงให้ พวกเราได้ เป็ นมิ ตร คื อรั ก คื อความห่ วงใย Kue sai nam thi phuak rao dai pheung pha duay chiwit Thi cheuam yong hai phuak rao dai pen mit Kue rak kue khwam huang yai This is the river that we depend upon for our lives The river connects us in friendship It is what we love and care for Cambodia Yer som oi ton ley Mekong kons tat tey kong vong Yer sa ror sam rub pdol to tien mor jor jeiy jon We wish the Mekong long life and beauty She offers resources for our people Vietnam Sông Cửu Long chảy vào lòng biển cả Mang điệu hò hòa lẫn với phù sa Cùng bồi đắp cho mối tình sông nước Của những con người hồn hậu thiết tha The Mekong River runs into the open sea's entrails Bringing songs with her silt and raising her love Through waterways past sincere and good-hearted people
Catch & culture, Jan 1, 2008
... also includes northeast Myanmar. China will commission several more hydro-electric dams acros... more ... also includes northeast Myanmar. China will commission several more hydro-electric dams across the mainstream over the next eight years. In the Lower Mekong Basin, there are currently no mainstream dams. But plans for ...
Land, Water, Rights, Jan 1, 2012
infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc... more infoasia@earthrights.org Cover photos courtesy of Mekong School alumni Tsering Drolma and Ly Quoc Dang, who took them just outside their homes near the source and mouth of the Mekong River. Tibet དྭངས་གཙང་གི་རྫ་ཆུ་ནི་གངས་ཅན་ཨ་མའི་ནུ་ཞོ་ཡིན། Gtsang gi rdza chu ni gangs can a'mi nu zho yin The holy Mekong River is the Snowland mother's milk China 你源远流长 孕育天下儿女 Ni yuan yuan liu zhang yun yu tian xia er nu You run a long course as the source of the people's lives Burma အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ာျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရအျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ အေမ႕ရင္ ခြ င္ လု ိ ၾကင္ နာေႏြ းေထြ းမွ ဳေတြ ေ၀၊ လု ိ အင္ ဆႏၵ မ်ား ျဖည္ ္ ေပးတဲ ျမစ္ ေရ ထာ၀ရ အျမဲ စီ းေစခ်င္ May yin korn lo ginar nway htwe mu twa way, lo inn sandamyar phaybayta myit yaa Htarwara amyair see xay chin The river is our mother's heart and love; She gives us warmth and care We wish for our mother river to flow freely forever Lao PDR ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ຂອງໄຫຼຜ່ ານ້ຳແດນ້ຳລາວຊາວປະຊາໄດ້ ດື່ ມກິ ນ້ຳໃຊ້ ຢາກຂໍ ໄວ້ ໃຫ້ ມີ ແມ່ ນ້ຳ�ເປັ ນ້ຳຄວາມງາມ ປະດັ ບໄວ້ ໃນໃຈລາວຕະຫຼອດໄປ Mae nam khong lai phan daen Lao xao pa sa dai duem kin sai Yak kor wai hai mee mae nam pen kwuam ngam Pa dab wai nai jai Lao talod pai The Mekong River flows through the land of Laos We Lao people rely on it for our lives We wish to hold the beauty of the Mekong in our hearts forever Mother Mekong ႕ ႕ ႕ ႕ Thailand คื อสายน� ้ าที ่ พวกเราได้ พึ ่ งพาด้ วยชี วิ ต ที ่ เชื ่ อมโยงให้ พวกเราได้ เป็ นมิ ตร คื อรั ก คื อความห่ วงใย Kue sai nam thi phuak rao dai pheung pha duay chiwit Thi cheuam yong hai phuak rao dai pen mit Kue rak kue khwam huang yai This is the river that we depend upon for our lives The river connects us in friendship It is what we love and care for Cambodia Yer som oi ton ley Mekong kons tat tey kong vong Yer sa ror sam rub pdol to tien mor jor jeiy jon We wish the Mekong long life and beauty She offers resources for our people Vietnam Sông Cửu Long chảy vào lòng biển cả Mang điệu hò hòa lẫn với phù sa Cùng bồi đắp cho mối tình sông nước Của những con người hồn hậu thiết tha The Mekong River runs into the open sea's entrails Bringing songs with her silt and raising her love Through waterways past sincere and good-hearted people
Environmental …, Jan 1, 2011
We compared the effects of water resource development on migratory fish in two North American riv... more We compared the effects of water resource development on migratory fish in two North American rivers using a descriptive approach based on four highlevel indicators: (1) trends in abundance of Pacific salmon, (2) reliance on artificial production to maintain fisheries, (3) proportion of adult salmon that are wild-versus hatchery-origin, and (4) number of salmon populations needing federal protection to avoid extinction. The two rivers had similar biological and physical features but radically different levels of water resource development: the Fraser River has few dams and all are located in tributaries, whereas the Columbia River has more than 130 large mainstem and tributary dams. Not surprisingly, we found substantial effects of development on salmon in the Columbia River. We related the results to potential effects on migratory fish in the Mekong River where nearly 200 mainstem and tributary dams are installed, under construction, or planned and could have profound effects on its 135 migratory fish species. Impacts will vary with dam location due to differential fish production within the basin, with overall effects likely being greatest from 11 proposed mainstem dams. Minimizing impacts will require decades to design specialized fish passage facilities, dam operations, and artificial production, and is complicated by the Mekong's high diversity and productivity. Prompt action is needed by governments and fisheries managers to plan Mekong water resource development wisely to prevent impacts to the world's most productive inland fisheries, and food security and employment opportunities for millions of people in the region.
Catch and Culture, Jan 1, 2008
The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is endemic to the Mekong Basin and an exceptional ... more The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is endemic to the Mekong Basin and an exceptional example of its unique biodiversity. Growing up to three meters in length and over 300 kg in weight, this largely herbivorous giant has a historical range from the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam all the way upstream into Yunnan province of China. This long-distance migration is believed to be part of the life cycle requirements to find suitable feeding, spawning and nursing habitats.