As AIT sought to expand its regional Aqua Outreach network to Laos in 1993, it was confronted with a novel approach to promoting aquaculture: a government request to support their existing systems without separate project staff. The resulting development of technologies has, as a result of this...

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 suggests an actor-oriented approach to tourism analysis. This approach assumes that actors are capable of acting and that they are influencing the tourism field by pursuing goals, following own strategies and having conflicts with other social actors. Therefore, tourism is not what...

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...

Current discourse on climate change highlights the issue of uncertainty, risks and the importance of systems' resilience as a means to cope with impacts of climate change and climate variability. This chapter links the dominant approach of uncertainty as presented in the climate change discourse...