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      Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region
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      Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region

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      Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives

      Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region

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      Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region book

      Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives
      Edited ByNathanial Matthews, Kim Geheb
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 26 November 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315867588
      Pages 218
      eBook ISBN 9781315867588
      Subjects Area Studies, Built Environment, Engineering & Technology, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Global Development, Politics & International Relations
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      Matthews, N., & Geheb, K. (Eds.). (2014). Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region: Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315867588

      ABSTRACT

      The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies. But the Mekong is also currently undergoing enormous social, economic, and ecological change of which hydropower development is a significant driver. This book provides a basin-wide analysis of political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin. It includes chapters from China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. 

      Written by regional experts from some of the region's leading research institutions, the book provides an holistic analysis of the shifting socio-political contexts within which hydropower is framed, legitimised and executed. Drawing heavily on political ecologies and political economics to examine the economic, social, political and ecological drivers of hydropower, the book's basin wide approach illuminates how hydropower development, and its benefits and impacts, are linked multilaterally across the basin. 

      The research in the book is derived from empirical research conducted from 2012-2013 as part of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food's Mekong programme.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|16 pages

      On dams, demons and development: the political intrigues of hydropower development in the Mekong

      ByNATHANIAL MATTHEWS, KIM GEHEB

      chapter 2|15 pages

      Framing a political ecology of Mekong Basin hydropower development

      ByNATHANIAL MATTHEWS, KIM GEHEB

      chapter 3|22 pages

      A political ecology of hydropower development in China

      ByZHA DAOJIONG

      chapter 4|29 pages

      From Manwan to Nuozhadu: the political ecology of hydropower on China’s Lancang River

      ByXING LYU

      chapter 5|18 pages

      From Pak Mun to Xayaburi: the backwater and spillover of Thailand’s hydropower politics

      ByJAKKRIT SANGKHAMANEE

      chapter 6|26 pages

      The invisible dam: hydropower and its narration in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

      ByKIM GEHEB, NIKI WEST, NATHANIAL MATTHEWS

      chapter 7|26 pages

      Whose risky business? Public–private partnerships, build-operate-transfer and large hydropower dams in the Mekong Region

      ByCARL MIDDLETON, NATHANIAL MATTHEWS

      chapter 8|20 pages

      The politics of the Lower Sesan 2 Dam in Cambodia KIMKONG HAM, SAMCHAN HAY AND THEA SOK

      chapter 9|25 pages

      Rethinking development narratives on hydropower in Vietnam

      ByNGA DAO AND BUI LIEN PHUONG
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