Deforestation impacts

B. Tangtalang (1503068)

Dakcheung District, Sekong

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

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

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Stream

Sources of Income:

  • - Agriculture
  • - Livestock

Education:

  • - Primary incomplete
  • - Primary
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Slight Decrease

Slight Decrease

WET SEASON

Significant Increase

Significant Increase

Water-bourne:

  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • 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
  • People injuried
  • Agriculture
  • 1 every 3-5 years
  • livelihoods
  • Health
  • More severe
  • More flooding (-)
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Landslides
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)
  • Industrial develop (+)
  • Charcoal production (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

54%

28%

20%

6%

21%

22%

2%

46%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

527

Main ethnic group:

Katu

Other ethnic group:

None

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 2.9

Sensitivity: 4.07

Ranking: 11.79

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity