Sustainable and Resilient Tonle Sap Lake: A Progressive Scenario for Policy Action

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PAER Policy Guide

Issue Brief

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Issue Brief

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Key messages

There is a need for a broader and holistic effort to address a host of environmental issues and challenges faced by the Tonle Sap Lake (TSL).
In order to realize a sustainable and resilient TSL and its basin, this policy guide suggests three resilience enhancement measures: i) Ecohydrological resilience enhancement measures, ii) Land-use management and pollution control measures, and iii) Livelihood resilience enhancement measures; and an integrated response mechanism (IRM) consisting of five responses.
Resilience enhancement measures are aimed at addressing both macro and micro level issues and challenges in a holistic manner.
Integrated response mechanism, which is inspired by integrated lake basin management (ILBM) concept, facilitates implementation of resilient enhancement measures effectively.
Platform for Aquatic Environmental Research (PAER), which is the main outcome of the SATREPS project, is positioned as a research platform for connecting and facilitating the policy-science-community/society interaction required to implement the resilience enhancement measures and establishment of adaptive lake governance over time.

Date:

January 2022

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Platform for Aquatic Ecosystem Research

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Languages:

English

PAER Policy Guide

Key messages

There is a need for a broader and holistic effort to address a host of environmental issues and challenges faced by the Tonle Sap Lake (TSL).
In order to realize a sustainable and resilient TSL and its basin, this policy guide suggests three resilience enhancement measures: i) Ecohydrological resilience enhancement measures, ii) Land-use management and pollution control measures, and iii) Livelihood resilience enhancement measures; and an integrated response mechanism (IRM) consisting of five responses.
Resilience enhancement measures are aimed at addressing both macro and micro level issues and challenges in a holistic manner.
Integrated response mechanism, which is inspired by integrated lake basin management (ILBM) concept, facilitates implementation of resilient enhancement measures effectively.
Platform for Aquatic Environmental Research (PAER), which is the main outcome of the SATREPS project, is positioned as a research platform for connecting and facilitating the policy-science-community/society interaction required to implement the resilience enhancement measures and establishment of adaptive lake governance over time.