Deforestation impacts

B. Axingneua (1408067)

Samuoi District, Saravane

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Construct water facility (gravity fed)
  2. Construct road

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Ecosystem & Services:

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

Sources of Income:

  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Primary incomplete
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

No change

Slight increase

WET SEASON

No change

Slight increase

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Homes
  • Income
  • Crops
  • Not changing
  • 1 every 10 years
  • Water
  • Food
  • Not changing

No Landslides
  • 1 every 10 years
  • Houses
  • Not changing


   No deforestation activity

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

52%

29%

21%

2%

27%

19%

2%

48%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

218

Main ethnic group:

Bakoe

Other ethnic group:

None

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 0.6

Sensitivity: 3.7

Ranking: 2.22

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity