Deforestation impacts

B. Adengkoutab (1408057)

Samuoi District, Saravane

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Build latrine (Health)
  2. Village drug kit

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Rice
  • - Maize
  • - Livestock
  • - Coffee
  • - Vegetables
  • - River

Sources of Income:

  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Kindergarten
  • - Primary incomplete
  • - Primary
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Some increase

Some increase

WET SEASON

Some increase

Some increase

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

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

No droughts

No Landslides

   No floods


   No deforestation activity

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

47%

29%

14%

5%

27%

18%

8%

53%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

308

Main ethnic group:

Bakoe

Other ethnic group:

None

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 1.2

Sensitivity: 3.07

Ranking: 3.68

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity