Deforestation, air pollution and water pollution are the biggest environmental challenges in the South-east Asian region. Like many developing regions, the drive to improve the economic status and living standards of the population has come at a cost to the environment. Most acutely in South-east Asia this has been through land-use change and deforestation with its consequent environmental impacts.
UKCEH has been working in South-east Asia for more than ten years, primarily in sustainable forestry, biodiversity and atmospheric science.
Partners
We have signed formal Memoranda of Understanding with:
Projects
- Sustainable Use of Natural Resources to Improve Human Health and Support Economic Development (SUNRISE) (NERC)
- Peatland Assessment in SE Asia by Satellite (PASSES) (UK Space Agency)
- Biodiversity and Land Use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) (NERC)
- Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Livelihoods and Environments in Smallholder Agricultural Systems on Tropical Peatland (SUSTAIN PEAT) (BBSRC)
- Agricultural Practices for Greenhouse Gas Regulation in Oil Palm (NERC)
- Integration of Biochar and Diverse Bioenergy Crops into SE Asian Agriculture (EPSRC)
- Agricultural Practices for GHG Regulation in Oil Palm (AP-GRO) (NERC)
- ICP Vegetation (incl ICP Vegetation-Asia) (Defra/UNECE)
- International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) (UNEP)
- Translation of Environmental Flow Research in Cambodia (NERC)
- HydroSOS (WMO)
- Java Flood One (NERC)
- Strengthening Thailand's agricultural drought resilience (NERC)
- Flood Impacts across Scales (NERC)
- One Health Drivers of Antibacterial Resistance in Thailand (MRC)
- FOR-RESTOR - A network for evidence-based tropical Forest Restoration (NERC)
- Seeing the fruit for the trees in Borneo: responding to an unpredictable community-level fruiting event (NERC)
- Hydrological training for the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (WMO)
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Community-based integrated catchment management for conserving the Upper Chindwin River (Defra)