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Biofuels in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Energy Sufficiency; Food Security;...

In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), a growing demand for biofuels could help support the agriculture sector and provide an alternative source of energy. However, if deployed unsustainably, biofuels...

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Green Growth, Resources and Resilience: Environmental Sustainability in Asia...

This report—Green Growth, Resources, and Resilience—describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of...

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Mekong Turning Point: Shared River for a Shared Future

The political economy of the Mekong River Basin shifted in 2011 from policies that exploited this transboundary resource shared by China and five Southeast Asian countries, to potentially more...

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Adaptation to Climate Change: The Case of a Combined Cycle Power Plant

This report aims to demonstrate how a rapid climate change impact assessment can be used to identify the possible impacts of climate change on a thermal power investment project. For this...

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Climate Risk and Adaptation in the Electric Power Sector

This report aims to highlight and raise awareness on the exposure and vulnerability of the energy sector to climate change. It also identifies adaptation options available to each source of energy...

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Flood Risk Management: A Strategic Approach

Over recent decades the concept of flood risk management has been cultivated across the globe. Implementation however remains stubbornly difficult to achieve. In part this reflects the perception that...

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Water Rights and Water Allocation: Issues and Challenges for Asia

As governments across Asia are searching for ways to increase water security for rural and urban water uses, the need to articulate water rights and improve water allocation practices is rapidly...

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Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment (2nd Edition)

In 1992, Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam established the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program...

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Climate Risks in the Mekong Delta: Ca Mau and Kien Giang Provinces of Viet Nam

This report presents the outputs of the Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Study in the Mekong Delta.The study focuses on vulnerability assessment of two provinces in the Mekong Delta region: Ca Mau...

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The Don Sahong dam and the Mekong dolphin

The Mekong River is home to a Critically Endangered, declining population of 85 Irrawaddy dolphins. An isolated dolphin group on the border of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and Cambodia...

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The Sekong River in Viet Nam, Lao PDR and Cambodia (An Information Sourcebook...

This sourcebook has been produced as a contribution to the BRIDGE project. The purpose of the paper is to provide a range of information which may be useful during dialogue to establish appropriate...

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GMS e-Updates - September 2014-February 2015

This edition of the GMS e-Updates features milestones achieved at the 5th GMS Summit, 4th Environment Ministers’ Meeting, sector updates on agriculture, energy, environment, human resource development,...

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Strategic Environmental Assessment in the Greater Mekong Subregion

This publication promotes the value of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to assist GMS decision makers to more effectively balance economic, social, and environmental considerations early in...

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How Strategic Environmental Assessment Can Influence Power Development Plans:...

This book is the third in a three-volume series of studies arising from the ADB project Ensuring Sustainability of the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Power Development, and demonstrates how...

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Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project...

The Decision Tree Framework described in this book provides resource-limited project planners and program managers with a cost-effective and effort-efficient, scientifically defensible, repeatable, and...

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Basin-wide Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Tool

The RSAT was developed to assess hydropower in a basin wide context based on IWRM principles. RSAT has been under development since 2010. A series of trials and national and regional consultations have...

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Asian Water Development Outlook 2016: Description of Methodology and Data

This supplement provides background information and notes on the approach, assumptions, and data used for the Asian Water Development Outlook 2016. The methodology itself has been developed by ADB in...

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Guidelines on Public Participation in EIA in the Mekong Region

The Guidelines on Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the Mekong Region have been developed to address the shared concern for increasing meaningful public participation in...

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Strategy 2030: Achieving a Prosperous, Inclusive, Resilient, and Sustainable...

Asia and the Pacific has made great strides in poverty reduction and economic growth in the past 50 years. ADB has been a key partner in the significant transformation of the region and is committed to...

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Projecting Industrial Pollution in the Greater Mekong Subregion

This publication summarizes the diverse pollutants and their sources that are harming the natural environment and people’s well-being in the Greater Mekong Subregion. It looks at how the Industrial...

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