Shannon Lawrence
Shannon Lawrence is the Lao programme director for International Rivers, a U.S.-based environmental and human rights non-governmental organisation.
Damming for development: Lessons from Laos
Author: Shannon Lawrence
A Lao man, his face and hands hardened by the sun and years of fishing, tends his water buffalo by the Theun River and wonders what his life will be like "after the flood". That's how he refers to the water that has started rising behind the Nam Theun 2 dam, turning an area more than four times the size of Paris - including the land his family has tilled for generations - into a stagnant reservoir. ...
Author: Shannon Lawrence
A Lao man, his face and hands hardened by the sun and years of fishing, tends his water buffalo by the Theun River and wonders what his life will be like "after the flood". That's how he refers to the water that has started rising behind the Nam Theun 2 dam, turning an area more than four times the size of Paris - including the land his family has tilled for generations - into a stagnant reservoir. ...
