Author: Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong BasinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Planning the Development of the Water Resources of the Lower Mekong Basin
Author: Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong BasinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Planning the Development of the Water Resources of the Lower Mekong Basin
Author: Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong BasinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Sharing the Good
Author: Joakim ÖjendalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Planning the Lower Mekong Basin
Author: Thim LyPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643108346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an international and interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Bonn, Germany. This book focuses on how various social actors influence the planning process for Se San River Basin's management in response to the effect of Vietnamese Yali-Falls dam on Cambodian local communities' livelihoods. The author examined why responses employed by dam development agencies produce a particular outcome. He attempted to demonstrate their strategies and cultural means in taking control over negotiation process to win the battle for expanding hydropower exploitation in the Se San River for maximum economic gain. The organizing responses by local communities and their distant supporters are constrained and resisted by politics, resources and strategies of dam promoting agencies.
Development of Water Resources in the Lower Mekong Basin
Author: The Mekong
Author: Ian Charles CampbellPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080920632
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows through 6 counties, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The 4 downstream countries have formed the Mekong River Commission to promote sustainable development of the river and many of their people depend on it for their subsistence ? it has possible the largest freshwater fishery in the world, and the Mekong waters support rice agriculture in the delta in Viet Nam (which produces about 40% of that country's food) as well as in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. China is now building the first large mainstream dam on the river, and has proposals for several more. These dams are likely to affect the downstream countries. Several of the downstream countries also have plans for large scale hydropower and irrigation development which could also impact the river. This book will provide a solid overview of the biophysical environment of the Mekong together with a discussion of the possible impacts, biophysical, economic and social, of some possible development scenarios. It is intended to provide a technical basis which can inform the growing political and conservation debate about the future of the Mekong River, and those who depend on it. It is aimed at river ecologists, geographers, environmentalists and development specialists both in the basin and (especially) outside for whom access to this material is most difficult. This book will be the first comprehensive treatment of the Mekong system. The first comprehensive overview of all aspects of the Mekong River system Deals with a regionally critical ecosystem and one under threat The Mekong supports the world's largest freshwater fishery and provides water underpinning a major regional rice paddy system Presents the authoritative findings of the Mekong River Commission's research for a wider audience for the first time outside of limited distribution reports
Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed
Author: Joakim ÖjendalPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400704763
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also because it is the "carrier" of global warming; whether through irregular weather patterns or through flooding, water is how global warming will be 'felt'. The lion's share of the globally available fresh water resources is to be found in transboundary systems. In spite of its significance, the generated knowledge on how to deal with transboundary waters is weak and leaves policy makers with seemingly unavoidable, trade-off dilemmas and prioritizations, often with detrimental effects. In order to disentangle this predicament this volume works with one case: the Lower Mekong Basin and covers state-of-the-art academic and practitioners' knowledge and hence appeals to a wide audience. The topic this volume addresses is situated in the nexus of an IR- (International Relations) approach focussing on transboundary politics and its inclination to remain within the sphere of state sovereignty and national interest on the one hand, and Development studies, with its imperatives on participation, planning, and intervention, on the other. The dilemma, we argue, of better understanding transboundary water management lies in how to understand how these two rationalities can be simultaneously nurtured. Audience: This book will be relevant to scholars, as it provides cutting-edge research, and students, since it covers the primary debates in the field, interested in resource management, regional politics, and development issues in the area. It also addresses the global debate on transboundary water management and presents an in-depth case of one of the globally most sophisticated attempts at pursuing sustainable river basin management. Finally, practitioners and policymakers would benefit greatly because all contributions have explicit policy relevance, launching suggestion on improvements in water management.
Comprehensive River Basin Planning
Author: W. R. Derrick SewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report on Indicative Basin Plan
Author: Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong BasinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Water and Power
Author: Mart A. StewartPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319904000
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world’s greatest rivers and, alas, one of the most endangered. The book is divided into three sections devoted in turn to historical perspectives on the Lower Mekong Basin. Issues relate to livelihood strategies, environmental threats, and adaptation strategies; and various aspects of river governance, with individual authors treating questions of governance at different levels of refraction and in different registers. The result is a fresh and innovative collection of essays, which, taken together, provide much-needed new perspectives on some of the most important and seemingly intractable environmental and development issues in contemporary Asia.