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Water, Land and Ecosystems

Kim Geheb

Kim Geheb specializes in the research and development of natural resources management institutions for common property resources. He has sixteen years of experience conducting, implementing, managing and leading natural resources research-for-development projects in the developing world and draws on his experience from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand, China and Vietnam. 

Content authored by Kim Geheb

  • Blog Post
    Blog Post

    Dams, Data and Decisions

    As dam construction surges across Southeast Asia’s Mekong region, major changes in river flows, sedimentation, and fisheries are taking place. WLE Greater Mekong has been compiling a free and publicly available Dam Observatory that collects data on planned and constructed hydropower and irrigation dams in four Southeast Asian river basins.
  • Blog Post
    A detail from the Chinese section of WLE's Mekong dam map.
    Blog Post

    From dams to basins: mapping across scales, part 2

    In June, WLE-Mekong published a series of maps identifying a massive range of dams across the major rivers of the Greater Mekong Subregion. In this interview excerpt, the second in a series of two, Thrive discusses how strong partnerships led to the creation of these maps and continues to identify hot spots and spaces for new research.
    Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
  • Blog Post
    Laos detail from the Mekong basin map.
    Blog Post

    From dams to basins: mapping across scales, part 1

    In June, WLE-Mekong published a series of maps identifying a massive range of dams across the major rivers of the Greater Mekong Subregion. In this interview excerpt, the first in a series of two, WLE-Mekong's Kim Geheb points out hot spots and opportunities arising from these maps.
    Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
  • Blog Post
    Mekong Forum
    Blog Post

    A Convener’s Outrespective

    "The Greater Mekong Forum serves as the primary interface between the technical work produced by WLE Mekong and potential users of that work," Kim Geheb discusses his thoughts on the forum. 
    4th Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
  • Big Question: Responses

    Dams: cautiously breaking eggs to make omelettes

    I forget which dam it was, but the anecdote goes that during a public consultation for a major Brazilian dam, one of the dam's developers had quipped that you had to break eggs to make an omelette. To which one of the audience members had replied, "yeah, but it's our eggs and your omelette".