Impacts of Hydroelectric Development on Local Communities: The Mun River, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium Thailand 2017

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • D'Souza, Amabel

• Hydroelectric development has had numerous impacts on local fishing communities. For those living along the Mun River the Pak Mun Dam has severely impacted their livelihoods. However as 25 years have passed, locals have adapted their knowledge to survive the changing ecology. The aim of this project is to collect and synthesize traditional knowledge from local fishing communities and document the impacts of the Pak Mun Dam. As well as this this project aims to examine the livelihood adaptations made since the commission of the Pak Mun Dam. Most of the knowledge shared may be socio-cultural and economic. It might also be ecological and include information about water flow, fish ecology etc. These socio-economic and ecological perspectives are interrelated as ecological impacts have a major effect on households and communities reliant on the river for harvesting food, water, jobs, and development.

• Date created

  2017-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • hydroelectric developments,
  • socio-ecological impacts, local traditional knowledge, fishing communities, Pak Mun Dam, livelihoods
  • Mun River, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-jx9f-bp13

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International