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Vulnerability, flooding and migration in Lao PDR insights from a study of selected villages

Vulnerability, flooding and migration in Lao PDR insights from a study of selected villages. Albert M Salamanca. http:// tinyurl.com /k3c92ek. Research questions and methods. How do floods intersect with migration in ASEAN?.

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Vulnerability, flooding and migration in Lao PDR insights from a study of selected villages

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  1. Vulnerability, flooding and migration in Lao PDRinsights from a study of selected villages Albert M Salamanca

  2. http://tinyurl.com/k3c92ek

  3. Research questions and methods • How do floods intersect with migration in ASEAN? • What are the types of vulnerabilities of people living in communities that experience flooding? • To what extent does migration shape these peoples’ vulnerabilities in communities that experience flooding? • How does the policy environment interact with flooding, migration and vulnerability?

  4. Survey

  5. Key characteristics of Laos (Source: http://data.worldbank.org/country/lao-pdr and World Development Indicators)

  6. Source: GFDRR, http://tinyurl.com/p9ayzkt

  7. Two field sites PhaVieng (mix Hmong & Khmu) Dong Yang (Lowland Lao) Huay Man (Khmu) Ban Lao (Lowland Lao)

  8. Selected Findings • About 71% of 158 respondents are born at the current place of residence; others were mostly ‘resettled’ • Only 4% of HHs were not negatively affected by the flooding during the last two years, 77% badly affected • 73% of respondents did not think there is a relationship between flooding and migration, presumably because migration has not yet been deployed as a coping strategy • Around 95% of HH members live in current residence

  9. Geography of Household Livelihoods 94%

  10. Emerging Insights

  11. In other words…

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