Deforestation impacts

B. Darkmeu (1503007)

Dakcheung District, Sekong

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

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

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Livestock
  • - Sugar cane
  • - Coffee
  • - Grass
  • - Vegetables
  • - Stream
  • - River
  • - Water spring

Sources of Income:

  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Kindergarten
  • - Primary incomplete
  • - Primary
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Some increase

Some decrease

WET SEASON

Some increase

Significant decrease

Water-bourne:

    None

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Life
  • Income
  • Not changing

No droughts

No Landslides

   No floods
  • More flooding (-)
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)

   No positive impact

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

44%

23%

15%

6%

31%

20%

5%

56%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

369

Main ethnic group:

Yè (Jeh)

Other ethnic group:

None

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 1.7

Sensitivity: 2.8

Ranking: 4.76

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity