Deforestation impacts

B. Pheenxe (1408023)

Samuoi District, Saravane

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Build latrine (Health)
  2. Improve pipe distribution system

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Rice
  • - Maize
  • - Livestock
  • - Sugar cane
  • - Vegetables
  • - Wood
  • - Stream
  • - River

Sources of Income:

  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Primary
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Slight Decrease

Slight Decrease

WET SEASON

Slight increase

Slight Decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Homes
  • Infrastructure
  • Income
  • Not changing

No droughts

No Landslides

   No floods


   No deforestation activity

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

54%

33%

20%

1%

18%

18%

2%

38%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

247

Main ethnic group:

Kado

Other ethnic group:

Bakoe

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 0.6

Sensitivity: 3.23

Ranking: 1.94

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity