Current projects

AMRC is currently involved in the following projects:

• Fisheries and Livelihoods in Laos, is a one year pilot study supported by ACIAR looking at livelihood changes faced by rural Lao who depend on capture fisheries for significant parts of their income and/or diet. Read more >

• Law Project, is a three year project funded by ARC looking at hard and soft law in Mekong Basin governance Read more >

• Cambodia Water Project, running over five years, is supported by $3 million from AusAID (of which $1.3 million comes to the University, including five research student scholarships). This project seeks to develop capacity in water resource management research. Partners include AMRC, Cambodia Development Resource Institute and Royal University of Phnom Penh. Read more >

• The welfare impacts of land titling in Laos, funded by AusAID's Australian Development Research Awards program, is a four year collaborative research project between Prof. Philip Hirsch (AMRC), Dr. Paulo Santos (Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources) and the National University of Laos, examining the extent to which gaining access to secure land titles improves economic welfare.
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• Mekong Learning Initiative, coordinated by AMRC and funded by Oxfam, is a collaboration between eight universities in the Mekong Region for teaching and learning in the social sciences of natural resource management. To date this project has attracted approximately $360,000 in funding support. Read more >