Integrated Water Resources Management - A Paradigm to Sustainable Development in Lao PDR?



: Jusi S.

Publisher: Interscience Publisher

: 2012

: PIE

: 4

: 7

: 4

: 307

: 321

: 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/PIE.2012.054398


There is a growing consensus that an approach of integrated water
resources management (IWRM) which includes elements of equity,
participation, coordination, sustainable development and inclusiveness can act
as the way forward for efficient and sustainable development and management
of limited water resources and for coping with conflicting demands. The Lao
PDR faces a challenge in improving the planning and management of water
resources at the same time as accelerating economic development by various
sectors (hydropower, agriculture, tourism and transport) is taking place. The
aim of the paper is to analyse the IWRM processes and to discuss about the
challenges and problems concerning the IWRM implementation towards
sustainable development in Lao PDR.



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