Dr LONN Pichdara

Former External Researcher

Dr Pichdara was Director of the Centre for Natural Resources and Environment at CDRI. Currently, he is an independent senior researcher in the field of natural resource and environment policy, particularly in community-based natural resource management (community forestry, community-based ecotourism, climate change and gender). Dr Pichdara recently conducted a three-year impact evaluation study on climate change programmes relating to poverty, vulnerability and gender with Cambodia’s Ministry of Rural Development and the UNDP Bangkok regional hub.  

Dr Pichdara obtained his Master's and PhD degrees in Forest Management from Kyushu University, Japan, in 2012 and 2018. His areas of research interest are mainly agriculture, forests, community-based natural resource management, forest dependents, fishery resource dependents, water governance, climate change, clean energy, green development, and other environmental and natural resource issues in Cambodia and the wider region. He has published research articles in many international journals covering ecological economics, forests, water and sustainability.  

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LONN Pichdara

Cambodia Development Review 18 - 3
LONN Pichdara   (2014)
Community Forestry For Sustainable Forest Management And Livelihoods: A Case Study Of Osoam Community Forest Users Group

Policy Briefs 5
Strengthening Adaptation Capacity of Rural People in the Main Agro-ecological Zones in Cambodia

Working Papers 93
Adaptation Capacity of Rural People in the Main Agro-Ecological Zones in Cambodia

Cambodia is divided into four agro-ecological zones—the Tonle Sap plain, Mekong plain, mountains/plateau and coast—representing heterogeneous agricultural activity, population and livelihood systems (UNDP 2011b). Climate change impacts and the adaptive capacity of the people differ from one zone to another. Adaptation measures have varied according...

Cambodia Development Review 17 - 3
LONN Pichdara   (2013)
Can Community-Based Ecotourism Improve Local Livelihoods? A Case Study Of Chambok Community-Based Ecotourism, Southwest Cambodia

Cambodia Development Review 15 - 1
Forests and Their Contribution to Local Livelihoods