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

Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives

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eBook - ePub

Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region

Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780415719131
eBook ISBN
9781317964124
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. 1 On dams, demons and development: the political intrigues of hydropower development in the Mekong
  12. 2 Framing a political ecology of Mekong Basin hydropower development
  13. 3 A political ecology of hydropower development in China
  14. 4 From Manwan to Nuozhadu: the political ecology of hydropower on China’s Lancang River
  15. 5 From Pak Mun to Xayaburi: the backwater and spillover of Thailand’s hydropower politics
  16. 6 The invisible dam: hydropower and its narration in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  17. 7 Whose risky business? Public-private partnerships, build-operate-transfer and large hydropower dams in the Mekong Region
  18. 8 The politics of the Lower Sesan 2 Dam in Cambodia
  19. 9 Rethinking development narratives on hydropower in Vietnam
  20. Index