ResouRce GoveRnance, aGRicultuRe and sustainable livelihoods

The team from the National University of Laos recommends using tools such as Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and the System of Environmental- Economic Accounting (SEEA), which include both quantitative and qualitative information about the economic benefits and environmental and social impacts of development as well as the value of natural capital and associated ecosystem services. [...] 12 Resource Governance, Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Lower Mekong Basin Preface 13 I The Environment 14 Resource Governance, Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Lower Mekong Basin The Environment–Economic Development Nexus in the Lower Mekong Basin 15 1 The Environment–Economic Development Nexus in the Lower Mekong Basin: Hydropower, Climate Change, and Transboundary W. [...] The cumulative adverse impacts in the LMB are the loss of wetlands, reduced flows to Lake Tonle Sap, and the loss of sediments and nutrients to the Delta, harming its capture fisheries, and changing its geomorphology. [...] All the LMB countries (and China) have contributed to the exploitation of the Mekong River without appropriate consideration of the impacts on their neighbors: Thailand is both the primary funder of and customer for Lao PDR’s hydroelectricity; Vietnam’s construction of hydropower in the Central Highlands has negatively affected Cambodia and its own Mekong Delta; and Cambodia’s construction of the. [...] The social and environmental costs are well known, and include the displacement of rural communities and livelihoods; the loss of fisheries, agricultural land, forests and wildlife locally; and the disruption of fisheries and sediment-based agriculture downstream, including Cambodia’s Tonle Sap and Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (Costanza et al.