The harvesting and production of natural ressources in the Greater Mekong Subregion (sometimes abbreviated GMS) is of significant economic importance, with the retail value of Mekong river fisheries alone estimated at more than US$4 billion annually [REF].
In the last decades, the Greater Mekong Subregion has also become a major site for large-scale construction projects and a rapid economic development, including hydropower damming, mining, forestry and industrial productions [REF].