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Mekong Mainstream Dams: Threatening Southeast Asia's Food Security
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2010
The Mekong is under threat. The governments of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand are considering plans to build eleven big … hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s lower mainstream. If built, these dams would harm the river’s ecology and block the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671528
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Feeding Southeast Asia: Mekong River Fisheries and Regional Food Security
Peterson, Brooke; Middleton, Carl - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper reviews the available literature that links regional food security to the Mekong River’s wild capture … on the proposed Mekong mainstream dams, it explores how decision-making on large water infrastructure should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492226
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Protecting Rivers and Rights: The World Commission on Dams Recommendations in Action
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
The briefing kit highlights key examples of policies, regulations and laws that reflect these WCD recommendations and references specific projects that demonstrate them in action. [IRN brief]. URL: [http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/WCDbriefingkit_0.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002283
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Foretelling the Mekong: Key Findings of the MRC’s Strategic Environmental Assessment on Mekong Mainstream Dams
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
With 11 large hydropower dams proposed to block the Lower Mekong River’s mainstream, the future of the river lies at … a crossroads. To inform decision-making, in October 2010, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) published a Strategic … economies. As these dams threaten to irreversibly undermine the ecology of the Mekong River and will place at risk the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002311
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Trans-boundary River Basins in South Asia: Options for Conflict Resolution
Chintan, Gopal Siwakoti - eSocialSciences - 2012
south - Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - on five river systems - the … Indus, the Ganga, the Brahmaputra, the Salween and the Mekong. [IRN report]. URL:[http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/TransboundaryRiverBasins.pdf]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543504
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The Don Sahong Dam: Potential Impacts on Regional Fish Migrations, Livelihoods and Human Health
Bird, Ian - eSocialSciences - 2011
poverty alleviation in Laos and neighbouring countries in the Mekong Region. URL: [http://polisproject.org/PDFs/Baird%202009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323693
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Thailand’s Commercial Banks’ Role in Financing Dams in Laos and the Case for Sustainable Banking
Middleton, Carl - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper puts forward the case for Thailand’s commercial banks to move towards more sustainable banking practices that proactively contribute towards socially and environmentally sustainable and just societies. It argues that such reforms would also benefit the banks themselves by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008739764
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Gender Equality and the Labour Market: Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Philippines
eSocialSciences; Asian Development Bank Institute - 2014
Increasing job opportunities and decent work for women are essential for inclusive growth, and they are vital for advancing economic and social development in a country. This approach to attaining economic and social wealth is based on reliable academic and statistical evidence and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945514
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Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories
Warren, Cael; Robertson, Raymond - eSocialSciences - 2011
The authors use a comprehensive data set of working conditions and wage compliance in Cambodia’s exporting garment factories to explore (1) the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, (2) whether the relationship between wages and working conditions within these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318513
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From Economic Meltdown to Social Crunch – Impact of the Global Economic Recession on Social Capital Building in Developing Countries and What We still Don't Know!
Wong, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper draws on the experiences of the Far East Economic Crisis in 1998 and argues that: (1) the poor depended heavily on bonding social capital during the Crisis, but the crunch-point beyond which they felt no longer able to rely on this is less certain; (2) bridging social capital could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323686