Contested waterscapes in the Mekong Region
Subtitle: hydropower, livelihoods, and governance
By: edited by Francois Molle, Tira Foran, and Mira Kakonen.
Contributors: Molle, François.; Foran, Tira.; Kakonen, Mira.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844077076
Subjects: Water resources development -- Mekong River Watershed; Water-supply -- Mekong River Watershed; Hydroelectric power plants -- Political aspects -- Mekong River Watershed; Water rights -- Mekong River Watershed; Watershed management -- Mekong River Watershed
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing waterscapes in the Mekong region : historical background and context / François Molle, Tira Foran, Philippe Floch; title: Old and new hydropower players in the Mekong region : agendas and strategies / Carl Middleton, Jelson Garcia, Tira Foran; title: Pak Mun Dam : perpetually contested? / Tira Foran, Kanokwan Manorom; title: The Nam Theun 2 controversy and its lessons for Lao PDR / Shannon Lawrence; title: Damming the Salween River / Darrin Magee, Shawn Kelley; title: Irrigation in the lower Mekong Basin countries : the beginning of a new era? / Chu Thai Hoanh ... [et al.]; title: Landscape transformations and new approaches to wetlands management in the Nam Songkhram River Basin in northeast Thailand / David Blake, Richard Friend, Buapun Promphakping; title: The delta machine : water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in historical and contemporary perspectives / David Biggs ... [et al.]; title: Hydropower in the Mekong region : what are the likely impacts on fisheries? / Juha Sarkkula ... [et al.]; title: The "greening of Isaan" : politics, ideology, and irrigation development in the northeast of Thailand / François Molle ... [et al.]; title: The promise of flood protection : dykes and dams, drains and diversions / Louis Lebel ... [et al.]; title: Songs of the doomed : the continuing neglect of capture fisheries in hydropower development in the Mekong / Richard Friend, Robert Arthur, Marko Keskinen; title: The anti-politics of Mekong knowledge production / Mira Käkönen, Philip Hirsch; title: Demarginalizing the Mekong River Commission / John Dore, Kate Lazarus; title: Contested Mekong waterscapes : where to next? / Francois Molle, Louis Lebel, Tira Foran.