Join Dr. Ian Baird for a discussion about drivers of river level change and impacts on local communities along the Thai-Lao border.

In recent decades, concerns about the impacts of hydropower dam development and sandmining in the Mekong River Basin have produced a broad understanding of how these impacts affect communities and ecosystems. However, there has been limited local-level documentation of these impacts on livelihoods and communities. During the 2024 dry season, Dr. Ian Baird visited over 40 communities along the Mekong River in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to engage with people who live and work along the Mekong. Join Dr. Baird for a discussion about his revealing field study findings and insight into how local communities use available information to communicate the changes around them.

This is the eighth in our Mekong data seminar series featuring presentations of recent studies and papers with an interactive discussion about the data and why it matters.