Author: Molle, Francois ; Foran, Tira ; & Käkönen, Mira ; editors :
Title: Contested Waterscapes In The Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods And Governance
Description: London, Earthscan, 2009. orig. boards. 24x16cm, xxii,426 pages. Name and handwritten note on flyleaf. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contents: Contents: Changing waterscapes in the Mekong region : historical background and context / Francois Molle, Tira Foran, Philippe Floch; Old and new hydropower players in the Mekong region : agendas and strategies / Carl Middleton, Jelson Garcia, Tira Foran; Pak Mun Dam : perpetually contested? / Tira Foran, Kanokwan Manorom; The Nam Theun 2 controversy and its lessons for Lao PDR / Shannon Lawrence Damming the Salween River / Darrin Magee, Shawn Kelley; Irrigation in the lower Mekong Basin countries : the beginning of a new era? / Chu Thai Hoanh [and others]; Landscape transformations and new approaches to wetlands management in the Nam Songkhram River Basin in northeast Thailand / David Blake, Richard Friend, Buapun Promphakping; The delta machine : water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in historical and contemporary perspectives / David Biggs [and others]; Hydropower in the Mekong region : what are the likely impacts on fisheries? / Juha Sarkkula [and others]; The "greening of Isaan" : politics, ideology, and irrigation development in the northeast of Thailand / Francois Molle [and others]; The promise of flood protection : dykes and dams, drains and diversions / Louis Lebel [and others]; Songs of the doomed : the continuing neglect of capture fisheries in hydropower development in the Mekong / Richard Friend, Robert Arthur, Marko Keskinen; The anti-politics of Mekong knowledge production / Mira Kä könen, Philip Hirsch; Demarginalizing the Mekong River Commission / John Dore, Kate Lazarus; Contested Mekong waterscapes : where to next? /

Keywords: Southeast Asia, Mekong River, Water Resources, Political History, , , , ,