Deforestation impacts

B. Kone gnong (1503050)

Dakcheung District, Sekong

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

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

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Rice
  • - Livestock
  • - River

Sources of Income:

  • - Agriculture
  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Primary incomplete
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Significant Increase

Significant Increase

WET SEASON

Slight Decrease

Slight Decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Diarrhea
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Infrastructure
  • Income
  • More frequent
  • More than 1 per year
  • Water
  • Crops
  • More severe

No Landslides
  • More than 1 per year
  • livelihoods
  • Health
  • More severe
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Industrial develop (+)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

41%

17%

22%

3%

29%

26%

3%

59%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

258

Main ethnic group:

Katu

Other ethnic group:

Tariang

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 2.77

Sensitivity: 3.93

Ranking: 10.88

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity