Catchment Governance and Cooperation Dilemmas: A Case Study from Cambodia
Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) is a recent ideal approach to be introduced into the Cambodian national strategy on water management to ensure better planning and management of water and other related resources in a catchment. A new multi-level catchment body or a committee is soon to be established as a result. Integral to ICM is cooper...
Catchment Governance And Cooperation Dilemmas: A Case Study From Cambodia
KEY MESSAGESA catchment or river basin refers to an area of land that is drained by a single river and its tributaries. Integral to the health of a catchment are elements such as soil, water, wildlife and vegetation, all of which form a life support ecosystem.Modern global catchment governance policy has turned to the theory of Integrated Catch...
Hydrological Analysis in Support of Irrigation Management: A Case Study of Stung Chrey Bak Catchment, Cambodia
This study applies the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model to assess irrigation management in the Stung Chrey Bak catchment, Cambodia. It evaluates three scenarios—reference, 5 percent annual increase in irrigation demand, and additional reservoir storage—to explore sustainable water allocation strategies. The catchment supports 10,367 h...
Irregular Migration from Cambodia: Characteristic, Challenges and Regulary Approach
This study investigates the dynamics of irregular migration from Cambodia, focusing on its characteristics, root causes, challenges, and regulatory responses. Drawing on household surveys, focus group discussions, and interviews with stakeholders, the research reveals that irregular migration—defined as unauthorised or undocumented movement for wor...
The Impact of Irrigation on Household Assets
This paper is based on data from 220 selected households surveyed during 2008-2010 and is intended to shed some light on the relationship between irrigation and household assets such as durable assets, livestock, farm equipment, cows and buffalo, and pull/plough animals. Since irrigation is widely seen as being an endogenous variable, the Inst...
An Investigation of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Stung Chrey Bak Catchment, Cambodia
This study investigates land use and land cover (LULC) change in the Stung Chrey Bak catchment, Kompong Chhnang province, Cambodia, over the period 1989–2008. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines satellite remote sensing (Landsat and ASTER imagery) with field interviews and participatory mapping, the research identifies significant tran...
