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Environmental Issues in Lao PDR

I will focus on how environmental issues mutually affected the economic development and poverty in Lao PDR while providing specific examples of the issues and government policies toward those problems.

Annotated Bibliography

1.   Reference: Dasgupta, Susmita. The poverty/environment nexus in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic. [electronic resource]. n.p.: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, Development Research Group, Infrastructure and Environment, [2003], 2003. OskiCat, EBSCO host (accessed October 9, 2016).

This Policy Research Working Paper published by World Bank mainly talks about the relationship between the environment situation in Lao PDR and the poverty of Laos people. Since the livelihoods of poor people rely on environment a lot, their life status and quality of poor people are largely effected by the environment situation. For example, the food and water the poor people can get are directly from the nature resources. Thus, the pollution of environment can cause a big problem for poor people’s health in Lao PDR. More importantly, the quality of soil and the demand of nature resources effect the agriculture and economy in Lao PDR which may further causes the poverty. My research will use the information of how much unsustainable development on environment in Lao PDR effects Laos people’s life in this Working Paper to support my argument.

2.   Buys, Piet. The economics of regional poverty-environment programs. [electronic resource] : an application for Lao People's Democratic Republic. n.p.: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, Development Research Group, Infrastructure and Environment : East Asia and Pacific Region Environment Sector Unit, 2004, 2004. OskiCat, EBSCO host (accessed October 9, 2016).

This Working Paper mainly talks about the trade-off among poverty reducing, administrations’ multiple objectives and environment quality. The Working Paper analyzes how different “poverty indicators” promotes the adopted policy. It also provides the information of the model of making adopted policy considering the multiple poverty indicators. And the model is performed by the analysis of its application in Lao PDR. Thus, I will use the information this Working Paper provided to argue how the suitable policy can be made in Lao PDR to balance the poverty problem and environmental improvement in my research.

3.   Messerli, Peter, et al. "Towards a Spatial Understanding of Trade-Offs in Sustainable Development: A Meso-Scale Analysis of the Nexus between Land Use, Poverty, and Environment in the Lao PDR." Plos ONE 10, no. 7 (July 28, 2015): 1-18. Academic Search Complete, EBSCO host (accessed October 9, 2016).

This academic journal focuses on the trade-off between poverty and sustainable development of environment in Lao PDR in the aspect of land use. This paper analyzes the land use and poverty problem in Lao PDR in two main aspects. The first one is the situation that permanent land use for agriculture may lead to a less poverty for more people in Lao PDR while causing the decreasing of planetary boundaries. The second one is the argument that “swidden agriculture” can actually provides more efficient benefits for balancing the reduction of poverty and the sustainable development of environment. I will use the information of this journal in my research to provide more details and examples of Lao’s land using problem and its negative influence on both economy and sustainable development of environment in Lao PDR.

4.   Phonekeo, Pakasith, P. Amparo López-Jiménez, and Ignacio Guillén Guillamón. "CFD model using for natural ventilation study in the local building of hot-humid climate in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR." International Journal Of Energy & Environment 7, no. 1 (January 2016): 37-48. Environment Complete, EBSCO host (accessed October 9, 2016).

This academic journal provides a research of the relationship between local climate and constructions in Lao PDR. The analysis mainly focuses on how the hot-humid climate effects the buildings in Vientiane Capital of Laos. The article provides the analysis based on the technique called “Computational Fluid Dynamics” (CFD) to investigate the air influenced by the environment around the buildings in the city. And it also examines that how the changes of air pressure, humidity, temperature and etc. effects people’s life in Lao PDR. I will use the information in this article to provide evidence of how environmental changes especially global warming effects Laos people.

5.   Azimi, Ali. Environments in transition: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Viet Nam. n.p.: Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, Programs Dept. (West), [2001], 2001. OskiCat, EBSCO host (accessed October 9, 2016).

This book provides a comprehensive perspective of the environmental issues of countries in Southeast area including Lao PDR. It indicates not only the diverse biotic and cultural environment in these countries but also analyzes the mutual effects among environment issues, social problems, policy making and economy. It also provides plenty examples of what kinds of problems Laos people are facing and how government tries to solve them. I will use the information in this book to analyze how different agency—NGOs, international organizations, local government and researchers corporate to solve the problem; and to find out what the potential disagreements are among the different agencies.

6.   Lao PDR: state of the environment, 2001. n.p.: Pathumthani, Thailand: United Nations Environment Programme, c2001., 2001. OskiCat, EBSCO host (accessed October 9, 2016).

This book highly focuses on the environment issues in Lao PDR along with the nation’s development recently. It also includes how those environment issues caused by unsustainable development effects the nation negatively in long-run and how people seek to sustainable development now. This book not only gives a general overview of the environment characteristics in Lao PDR but also provides the possible methods to solve the problems. I will use this book as a primary guideline for my research in order to address the issues of Lao PDR more logically and clearly.

7.   Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba (Japan), and R. Yamada. "Farm management and environment of rainfed agriculture in Laos." JIRCAS International Agriculture Series (Japan) Eng No. 23 (2014): AGRIS, EBSCO host (accessed October 9, 2016).

This book argues the environmental issues in Lao PDR basically in the aspect of agriculture. It provides many details and examples to draw the real situation of Laos agriculture and its effects on the environment. The author performs the impropriate land use in many areas in Lao PDR and the suggested methods of farm management. The analysis in this book provides the examples of how these methods be practiced and how effective they are. It also gives a forward perspective of how those methods should be improved in order to gain the result of sustainable development in Lao PDR.

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