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Author De Jong, Wil

Title Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas
Published London : Earthscan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Transnational Natural Resource Governance in Border Regions; Chapter 2 Social, Spatial and Sectoral Boundaries in Transborder Conservation of Central African Forests; Chapter 3 State-making and Transnationalism: Transborder Flows in a Borderland of Western Borneo; Chapter 4 A Resource-hungry Malaysia, Transnational Mobile Peoples and the Absence of the State: A Lethal Combination for Natural Resources in Indonesia's Borderlands?
Chapter 5 Territorialization, Regionalism and Natural Resource Management in the Peruvian AmazonChapter 6 Territorialization Re-examined: Transborder Marine Resources Exploitation in Southeast Asia and Australia; Chapter 7 Circumventing the Sea Cucumber War: Self-regulation of Sea Cucumber Fisheries in Rishiri Island, Japan; Chapter 8 Beyond Borders: Scaling-up Marine Turtle Conservation Through Transnational Arrangements; Chapter 9 Adapting to Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate: The Role of Institutions in Transborder Settings
Chapter 10 Fighting Floods or Living with Floods? Streamlining Multiple Strategies of Flood Risk Management in Transborder River BasinsChapter 11 Greater Mekong Subregion Cooperation in Hydropower Development and Power Interconnection: Potentials, Challenges and Progress; References; Index
Summary Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single country capabilities. This book illustrates the diversity of transborder natural resources, the pressures that they experience or the opportunities that exist for multinational regulatory regimes, monitoring and enforcement. It presents ten case studies of transborder natural resources that are of interest to two or more neighbor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index
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Subject Conservation of natural resources -- International cooperation -- Case studies
Conservation of natural resources -- International cooperation.
Forest conservation -- Case studies
Forest conservation.
Marine resources conservation -- Case studies
Marine resources conservation.
Stream conservation -- Case studies
Stream conservation.
Conservation of natural resources -- International cooperation
Forest conservation
Marine resources conservation
Stream conservation
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Snelder, Denyse
Ishikawa, Noboru
ISBN 9781849775588
1849775583
1849712239
9781849712231