Deforestation impacts

B. Tangpa (1502025)

Kaleum District, Sekong

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Construct water facility (gravity fed)
  2. Build latrine (Sanitation)

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - None

Sources of Income:

  • - Subsistence agriculture

Education:

  • - None
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Slight increase

Slight Decrease

WET SEASON

No change

Slight Decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Infrastructure
  • Income
  • More frequent

No droughts
  • People injuried

   No floods
  • Landslides
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)
  • Industrial develop (+)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

71%

27%

40%

4%

25%

22%

3%

50%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

208

Main ethnic group:

Katu

Other ethnic group:

None

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 0.6

Sensitivity: 3.07

Ranking: 1.84

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity