Deforestation impacts

B. Brong noy (1503002)

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
  • - Maize
  • - Livestock
  • - Sugar cane
  • - Vegetables
  • - Wood
  • - Water spring

Sources of Income:

  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Primary incomplete
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Agriculture

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

No change

No change

WET SEASON

No change

No change

Water-bourne:

  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Infrastructure
  • More frequent
  • More than 1 per year
  • Food
  • Crops
  • More severe
  • Water suply
  • People injuried
  • 1 per year
  • livelihoods
  • Less severe
  • More flooding (-)
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Landslides
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)
  • Industrial develop (+)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

50%

28%

17%

5%

29%

17%

4%

50%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

309

Main ethnic group:

Yè (Jeh)

Other ethnic group:

None

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 2.6

Sensitivity: 4.07

Ranking: 10.57

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity