Deforestation impacts

B. Songkhone (1502016)

Kaleum District, Sekong

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Build latrine (Sanitation)
  2. Training; management and maintenance (Sanitation)
  3. Training and awareness raising (Food source)

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Stream
  • - Water spring

Sources of Income:

  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock

Education:

  • - Primary incomplete
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Slight increase

Slight Decrease

WET SEASON

Slight increase

Slight Decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis

  • More than 1 per year
  • Homes
  • Infrastructure
  • Income
  • More frequent
  • 1 every 10 years
  • Water
  • Food
  • Crops
  • Less severe

No Landslides
  • 1 every 10 years
  • Houses
  • livelihoods
  • Health
  • Less severe
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)
  • Industrial develop (+)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

48%

22%

22%

4%

23%

25%

4%

52%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

512

Main ethnic group:

Ngkriang (Ngè’)

Other ethnic group:

Katu, Hrlak (Alak)

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 0.93

Sensitivity: 3.57

Ranking: 3.33

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity