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- Its goals are to improve water quality, reduce flooding, enhance biodiversity and ecosystems, and ensure sustainable water resources in line with the EU Water Framework Directive.
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Ecotourism Impacts on Water Resources Management Along the Mekong River
1. Ecotourism Impacts on Water
Resources Management along
the Mekong River
A case study of Kampi Ecotourism site, Kratie province,
Cambodia
By Kunthea Phirum
Research Fellow, M-POWER-CPWF
5. Research Questions
Who are key stakeholders?
How do they involve?
WR
Management &
Development WR Planning
How to engage ecotourism
sector into decision-making
process?
5
6. Study Site
Kratie- 153 km
stretch of the
Mekong
Kampi village,
Sambo district
85 mammals
(WWF, 2012)
6
13. Preliminary Findings
1st : Hydropower Tide
2nd : Climate Change The rise and fall of the sea
The rise and fall of the river?
13
14. Preliminary Conclusion
14
Optimistic Ecotourism
WRM in the study area is not integrated
Water governance is not well
mainstreamed
15. Next Steps
15
Positive and negative impacts
How can ecotourism sector be engaged
in WR planning?
Community Adaptation towards flow
pattern changes
Mainstreaming water governance