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Legal certainty regarding land ownership is decisive: peeling cassava in Kratie, Cambodia.

Agriculture

Indispensable legal certainty

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by Frank Bliss
by Karin Gaesing
A resident of the Boeung Kak lakeside cries during a protest in Phnom Penh in 2011.

Urban development

Once there was a lake

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by Sun Narin
This informal settlement in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh was evicted in 2006.

Registration matters

Land titles help to prevent conflict

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by Sun Narin

Do not over-emphasise the role of ISIS in Mindanao

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by Hans Dembowski
In 2011, record flooding put large areas of Thailand under water.

Climate-change adaptation

Documentation by drones

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by Daniel Nordmann
by Till Below
Rural Tanzanian health centre: in developing countries, policymakers often find it easier to convince voters of investing government funds in social services than in long-term environmental protection.

Multilateral affairs

Global governance for SDGs

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by Belay Begashaw
Many questions concerning social standards remain unanswered at the young AIIB.

AIIB

Lacking standards

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by Lea Diehl
Chinese coast guard confronting Filipino fishermen near Scarborough Shoal, which is historically claimed by both countries.

Law of the sea

Pivoting Philippines

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by Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles
Coastal villages in the Mekong Delta are particularly hard hit by climate change.

Mangroves

Saving the Mekong Delta

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by Severin Peters
by Christian Henckes
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