Deforestation impacts

B. Dark le (1503114)

Dakcheung District, Sekong

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

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

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Coffee
  • - Grass
  • - River

Sources of Income:

  • - Agriculture
  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Kindergarten
  • - Primary
  • - High school
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Some increase

Slight Decrease

WET SEASON

Some decrease

Slight Decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis

  • More than 1 per year
  • Infrastructure
  • Income
  • More frequent

No droughts
  • People injuried

   No floods
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Erosion (-)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

52%

27%

20%

5%

26%

16%

6%

48%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

281

Main ethnic group:

Yè (Jeh)

Other ethnic group:

Katu

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 1.8

Sensitivity: 2.57

Ranking: 4.62

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity