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Luang Prabang : climate change and rapid development

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Date
02/2020
Author
Fumagalli, Matteo
Keywords
Laos
Luang Prabang
Southeast Asia
Climate change
Development
FDI
Trade
Aid
Environmental hazards
Internationalization
Heritage
Conservation
Economic reforms
New economic mechanism
UNESCO
World heritage
GE Environmental Sciences
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
JZ International relations
DAS
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
Few other Asian cities have been as orientalised as Luang Prabang, the former capital of the Royal Kingdom of Laos and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Situated on the banks of the Mekong River, Luang Prabang has historically been a hub for trade and culture in upland Southeast Asia. The internationalisation engendered by the country's economic reforms and rapid opening up to and integration in regional and transnational economic processes has led to a surge in investment, trade, development assistance and tourist flows. All this has brought opportunities for the residents of Luang Prabang, but such sudden development has also led to socioeconomic dislocation and challenges to both the physical and social fabric of the city. This profile of Luang Prabang looks at the town's geographical location and physical context. This is followed by an account of how spatial use has evolved and the pressures it is under, particularly following the spike in tourist arrivals that followed the city's inscription as a World Heritage site. The article highlights the city's environmental vulnerabilities, zooming in on the impact of climate change which compounds the challenges of rapid development. Far from being fixed in timelessness, the town truly lies at the nexus of local and global processes, experiencing and shaping change, and negotiating the tensions between conservation and development.
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Fumagalli , M 2020 , ' Luang Prabang : climate change and rapid development ' , Cities , vol. 97 , 102549 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102549
Publication
Cities
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102549
ISSN
0264-2751
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102549
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23382

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