| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 426 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Changing waterscapes in the Mekong region : historical background and context / François Molle, Tira Foran, Philippe Floch -- Old and new hydropower players in the Mekong region : agendas and strategies / Carl Middleton, Jelson Garcia, Tira Foran -- Pak Mun Dam : perpetually contested? / Tira Foran, Kanokwan Manorom -- The Nam Theun 2 controversy and its lessons for Lao PDR / Shannon Lawrence -- Damming the Salween River / Darrin Magee, Shawn Kelley -- Irrigation in the lower Mekong Basin countries : the beginning of a new era? / Chu Thai Hoanh [and others] -- Landscape transformations and new approaches to wetlands management in the Nam Songkhram River Basin in northeast Thailand / David Blake, Richard Friend, Buapun Promphakping -- The delta machine : water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in historical and contemporary perspectives / David Biggs [and others] -- Hydropower in the Mekong region : what are the likely impacts on fisheries? / Juha Sarkkula [and others] -- The "greening of Isaan" : politics, ideology, and irrigation development in the northeast of Thailand / François Molle [and others] -- The promise of flood protection : dykes and dams, drains and diversions / Louis Lebel [and others] -- Songs of the doomed : the continuing neglect of capture fisheries in hydropower development in the Mekong / Richard Friend, Robert Arthur, Marko Keskinen -- The anti-politics of Mekong knowledge production / Mira Käkönen, Philip Hirsch -- Demarginalizing the Mekong River Commission / John Dore, Kate Lazarus -- Contested Mekong waterscapes : where to next? / Francois Molle, Louis Lebel, Tira Foran |
| Summary |
"The catchment area of the Mekong River and its tributaries extends from China, through Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and to Vietnam. The water resources of the Mekong region - from the Irrawaddy and Nu-Salween in the west, across the Chao Phraya to the Lancang-Mekong and Red River in the east- are increasingly contested. Governments, companies, and banks are driving new investments in roads, dams, diversions, irrigation schemes, navigation facilities, power plants and other emblems of conventional 'development'. Their plans and interventions should provide some benefits, but also pose multiple burdens and risks to millions of people dependent on wetlands, floodplains and aquatic resources, in particular, the wild capture fisheries of rivers and lakes. This book examines how large-scale projects are being proposed, justified, and built. How are such projects contested and how do specific governance regimes influence decision making? The book also highlights the emergence of new actors, rights and trade-off debates, and the social and environmental consequences of 'water resources development'. This book shows how diverse, and often antagonistic, ideologies and interests are contesting for legitimacy. It argues that the distribution of decision-making, political, and discursive power influences how the waterscapes of the region will ultimately look and how benefits, costs and risks will be distributed. These issues are crucial for the transformation of waterscapes and the prospects for democratizing water governance in the Mekong region. The book is part of the action-research of the M-POWER (Mekong Program on Water, Environment and Resilience) knowledge network"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on February, 16 2024) |
| Subject |
Water resources development -- Mekong River Watershed
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Water-supply -- Mekong River Watershed
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Political aspects -- Mekong River Watershed
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Water rights -- Mekong River Watershed
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Watershed management -- Mekong River Watershed
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Political aspects
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Water resources development
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Water rights
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Water-supply
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Watershed management
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Mekong River Watershed
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Molle, François.
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Foran, Tira.
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Käkönen, Mira.
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| ISBN |
9781849770866 |
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1849770867 |
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