Sparking development or consuming the countryside? Lao charcoal commodity networks in the Mekong Region

Business & Economics

• Charcoal 100%
• Laos 87%
• Countryside 63%
• Commodities 59%
• Dispossession 13%
• Income Smoothing 11%
• Uneven Development 10%
• Extractive Industries 10%
• Household 10%
• Household Production 10%
• Production Networks 9%
• Smallholders 9%
• Regional Integration 9%
• Natural Resources 8%
• Livelihoods 8%
• Sustainability 8%
• Political Economics 8%
• Degradation 8%
• Wood 8%
• Income 7%
• Rent 7%
• Cash 6%
• Participation 6%

Social Sciences

• Laos 80%
• commodity 62%
• large-scale industry 28%
• income 21%
• regional integration 19%
• market 18%
• rent 17%
• sale 16%
• livelihood 15%
• natural resources 14%
• sustainability 12%
• regulation 9%
• participation 8%
• economics 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• commodity 68%
• charcoal 66%
• household 20%
• income 14%
• uneven development 13%
• extractive industry 12%
• market 11%
• legal regulation 11%
• local participation 10%
• smallholder 10%
• smoothing 7%
• livelihood 7%
• natural resource 6%
• sustainability 6%
• economics 4%
• distribution 2%
• analysis 2%