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Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong
- K. Winemiller, P. McIntyre, L. Sáenz
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 8 January 2016
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Unsettling Experiences: Internal Resettlement and International Aid Agencies in Laos
- I. Baird, Bruce Shoemaker
- Economics
- 1 September 2007
A number of programmes and policies in Laos are promoting the internal resettlement of mostly indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to lowland areas and along roads. Various…
Transboundary Impact Assessment in the Sesan River Basin: The Case of the Yali Falls Dam
This case study of the Yali Falls Hydropower Dam in the Vietnamese portion of the Sesan River Basin demonstrates a range of institutional and political challenges encountered in the assessment of…
Rubber and People : Rapid Agrarian Changes and Responses in Southern Laos
- I. Baird
- Economics
- 2009
In recent years Laos has experienced rapid changes in land and resource use and tenure. Of those, the allocation of large-scale economic land concessions for rubber production has been amongst the…
Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labor: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- I. Baird
- Economics
- 15 October 2011
In recent years the Lao government has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in significant alterations of…
The Global Land Grab Meta-Narrative, Asian Money Laundering and Elite Capture: Reconsidering the Cambodian Context
- I. Baird
- Political Science
- 3 April 2014
The dramatic expansion of large-scale economic land concessions and acquisitions in the Global South has generated considerable concern amongst activists, journalists and academics recently. This has…
TRADITIONAL FISHERIES AND FISH ECOLOGY ON THE MEKONG RIVER AT RHONE WATERFALLS IN SOUTHERN LAOS
- T. R. Roberts, I. Baird
- Environmental Science
- 1995
Khonc (pronounced "Kawn") Falls is the site of one of the most important wildcapture riverine fisheries in tropical Asia. Khone villagers have been fishing the area for generations, and have…
Dolphin-Safe Tuna from California to Thailand: Localisms in Environmental Certification of Global Commodity Networks
- I. Baird, Noah Quastel
- Political Science
- 15 February 2011
This article analyzes the historical development of the United States–based dolphin-safe tuna campaign and associated labeling scheme in the early 1990s as a form of commodity network regulation.…
Mekong River Fish Conservation Zones in Southern Laos: Assessing Effectiveness Using Local Ecological Knowledge
- I. Baird, M. Flaherty
- Environmental ScienceEnvironmental management
- 11 August 2005
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THE DON SAHONG DAM
- I. Baird
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2011
Plans are underway to construct twelve large hydropower projects on the un-dammed lower and middle mainstream Mekong River in Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. One of the planned projects is a 30–32…
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