Responsibility vs. Accountability
If you want to understand why Vietnam’s environmental problems are so intractable, read the article in the August 23, 2013 edition of Viet Nam News entitled Illegal wharves threaten environment.
View ArticleThe Real Barrier to Environmental Protection: Lessons from China
The Financial Times recently published an article entitled China: The road to reform. The first sentence reads: “For those who have to endure the toxic smog of northern China, it often comes as a...
View ArticleVietnam’s Management of Forest Products: Such as Child Abandonment
If forests generally and forest products particularly are seen as a property; then its owners need at least balance between "protection" and "utilization”. However, in this reason, the management of...
View ArticleThe Forest Asia Summit 2014: Small Rooms, So Much Heat!
Just for 2 days, 5-6th May 2014, the Forests Asia Summit held in Jakarta, Indonesia has waved many pressing issues in the sustainable development goals of the region.
View ArticleDams vs. Airplanes
In August 2014, a 5.5 MW hydropower dam broke for the second time in Gia Lai Province. Luckily no one was killed. This isn’t the first time that dams have leaked or broken in Vietnam but what was...
View ArticleGreen Talk: Comparing the Discourse on Climate Change and Sustainable...
Environmental non-government organizations (ENGOs) and national governments are key players in the political sphere surrounding issues of climate change and sustainable development. The relationships...
View ArticleChanging Tides for a Common Future: The MRC and Hydro-Diplomacy
The Mekong River Commission (MRC), the only intergovernmental body mandated to sustainably manage and protect the Lower Mekong River, is on the brink of demise. While transboundary water governance has...
View ArticleLetters from the Mekong: A Call for Strategic Basin-Wide Energy Planning in Laos
This issue brief—the third in Stimson’s “Letters from the Mekong” series—continues to challenge the prevailing narrative that the current rapid pace of dam construction on the Mekong River in mainland...
View ArticleOpen Letter from Save the Mekong Coalition to the developers of the Don...
The Save the Mekong Coalition has issued an Open Letter to the developers of the Don Sahong Dam to express our serious and ongoing concerns over the development of the project.
View ArticleStatement of the Save the Mekong Coalition Regarding the Pak Lay Dam...
On 13 June, the Government of Laos formally notified the Mekong River Commission (MRC) of its intention to construct the Pak Lay dam on the mainstream of the Mekong River. The notification triggers the...
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