Valuing Lao Landscapes : A Province, District, and Household Level Analysis of Natural Capital in Khammouane Province
Natural capital is the largest form of wealth in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Yet, natural capital is being depleted, posing a significant challenge to achieving poverty reduction and sustainable development objectives. The World Bank has...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/647851593694356369/Valuing-Lao-Landscapes-A-Province-District-and-Household-Level-Analysis-of-Natural-Capital-in-Khammouane-Province http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34070 |
| Summary: | Natural capital is the largest form of
wealth in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Yet, natural
capital is being depleted, posing a significant challenge to
achieving poverty reduction and sustainable development
objectives. The World Bank has long promoted natural capital
accounting (NCA) and regularly provides estimates of the
value of natural capital in terms of a nation’s wealth, with
wealth being the total value of human, produced, and natural
capital. Khammounane Province, natural capital is even more
important, with significant total value from the forest
landscape for timber, nature-based tourism, food, fuel, and
watershed protection services. This report on the natural
capital of Lao PDR landscapes, in particular Khammouane
Province, was produced as part of advisory services
initiated to support Lao PDR’s ongoing transformation toward
economic growth that is sustainable, clean, green,
resilient, and inclusive. |
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