The residents of the Ganges and Mekong River deltas face serious challenges from rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, pollution from upstream sources, growing populations, and infrastructure that no longer works as planned. In both deltas, scientists working for nearly two decades with communities, local governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have demonstrated the potential to overcome these challenges and substantially improve people’s livelihoods.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2018Laos, Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Thailand
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2014Myanmar
Forestry Water Management, Landscape Approach and Land Management in Kachin State, northern Myanmar.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Asia, Eastern Asia, China, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, VietnamWorldFish is working with partners in the Mekong Region to support a new alliance of regional and local partners that will contribute towards sustainable wetlands management that benefit the poor. This project supports the Wetlands Alliance, an extensive network of organizations —government, civil and NGOs— actively engaged in developing innovative solutions to poverty alleviation. The Alliance helps local partners to build the capacity they need to work effectively with communities that they are supporting.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2015Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
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Library ResourceOctober, 2013Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
Hydropower development: a defining issue
There are few other places in the world, perhaps none, with such intensive dams development as the Mekong Basin.
The major tensions in the Mekong revolve around dams and other infrastructure development and the shift from economies based on agriculture and primary production to manufacturing, industry and services.
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Library ResourceOctober, 2015India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka
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