Longitudinal studies in southeastern Cambodia of three different areas with differing water regimes indicated that the average amount of fish and other aquatic animals caught in rice fields and surrounding areas was over 380 kg per household per year^-1. The amount varied significantly (P<0.001)...

The AIT Aqua Outreach Programme and the Department of Fisheries in Cambodia are collaborating on fisheries and aquaculture development for small-scale rice farmers in the southern provinces of Cambodia. This paper provides examples on: how situation appraisal is being carried out; how promising...

This chapter assesses the contributions of international research centres to rice productivity gains in developing countries of Asia and latin America, focusing specifically on 12 countries in South and Southeast Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the...

This book, which contains 13 separately authored chapters, has been developed from the ADAPT Project, focusing on the development of regional adaptation strategies to climate change and climate variability for water, food and the environment in river basins across the world. Chapter 1 describes a...

This paper discusses the climate change impacts and adaptation strategies relating to the water resources, food production and environmental preservation of the Mekong Basin (shared by China (Yunnan Province), Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam).

This paper introduces four downscaling techniques and one spatial downscaling technique (kriging) used in the ADAPT project. Statistical methods 1 and 2 are simple methods that correct future projections based on annual and monthly averages, respectively. Method 3 adds to method 2 a correction...

This paper focuses on the environmental aspects of adaptation to climate change and describes how to develop and evaluate environmental adaptations to climate change for river systems. First, the possible effects of climate change on the environment, through changes in water quantity and quality,...

This chapter reviews indigenous ecotourism ventures located on tribal lands and protected areas of South East Asia. Indigenous ecotourism projects in the mainland Mekong countries of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and southwest China (Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces) are reviewed. Other indigenous...

This chapter examines tourism as a series of intersecting representations, narratives and embodied practices in order to reveal significant disparities between the approach adopted for managing and presenting one of Angkor's most prominent landscapes and the values ascribed to the site by tourists...

This chapter focuses on what may be termed 'new tourist destination countries': Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, part of the Greater Mekong Subregion, and discusses the numerous challenges these countries face in their governance as emerging tourist destinations. This chapter explains that these...