Deforestation impacts

B. Phousay (1705024)

Phouvong District, Attapeu

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Construct water facility (borehole)
  2. Build latrine (Sanitation)

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Rice
  • - Maize
  • - Livestock
  • - Grass
  • - Vegetables
  • - Wood
  • - Stream
  • - Water spring

Sources of Income:

  • - Agriculture
  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock

Education:

  • - Primary
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Significant Increase

Significant decrease

WET SEASON

Significant decrease

Significant decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Infrastructure
  • Income
  • More frequent
  • 1 every 3-5 years
  • Water
  • Food
  • Crops
  • Less severe

No Landslides
  • 1 every 3-5 years
  • livelihoods
  • Health
  • Less severe
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)
  • Industrial develop (+)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

53%

25%

21%

6%

23%

19%

6%

47%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

309

Main ethnic group:

Brao

Other ethnic group:

Lao, Tariang

Religion:

Buddhism, Animism

Hazard Intensity: 1.77

Sensitivity: 3.1

Ranking: 5.48

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity