Deforestation impacts

B. Meouhuomeung (1702043)

Samakkhixay District, Attapeu

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Construct water facility (borehole)
  2. Diversify livelihoods

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Rice
  • - Maize
  • - Livestock
  • - Wood

Sources of Income:

  • - Agriculture
  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock
  • - Trade
  • - Casual labor
  • - NTFP; Fishery

Education:

  • - Primary incomplete
  • - Primary
  • - High school
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Slight increase

Significant decrease

WET SEASON

Slight increase

Slight Decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria
  • Scrub typhus

  • 1 every 3-5 years
  • Infrastructure
  • More frequent
  • 1 every 10 years
  • Water
  • Food
  • Crops
  • Not changing

No Landslides
  • 1 every 10 years
  • Health
  • Less severe
  • More flooding (-)
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)
  • Industrial develop (+)
  • Charcoal production (+)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

49%

25%

22%

2%

27%

22%

3%

51%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

2598

Main ethnic group:

Yahen

Other ethnic group:

Lao, Hrlak (Alak)

Religion:

Buddhism, Animism

Hazard Intensity: 2.37

Sensitivity: 1.9

Ranking: 4.5

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No positive impact
  • Changing river flows (-)
  • Water availability (-)

Mining impacts

   No mining activity