Deforestation impacts

B. Brong gnai (1503001)

Dakcheung District, Sekong

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Improve water quality
  2. Build latrine (Sanitation)
  3. Improve road

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Ecosystem & Services:

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

Sources of Income:

  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Primary incomplete
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / 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
  • Infrastructure
  • Income
  • Not changing
  • More than 1 per year
  • Food
  • Crops
  • Less severe

No Landslides
  • More than 1 per year
  • livelihoods
  • Health
  • Less severe
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Charcoal production (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

48%

27%

17%

5%

30%

19%

3%

52%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

355

Main ethnic group:

Yè (Jeh)

Other ethnic group:

None

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 2.93

Sensitivity: 4

Ranking: 11.73

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity