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1 Bossio, Deborah; Critchley, W.; Geheb, K.; van Lynden, G.; Mati, B.; Bhushan, P.; Hellin, J.; Jacks, G.; Kolff, A.; Nachtergaele, F.; Neely, C.; Peden, D.; Rubiano, J.; Shepherd, G.; Valentin, Christian; Walsh, M. 2007. Conserving land, protecting water. In Molden, David (Ed.). Water for food, water for life: a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. London, UK: Earthscan; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.551-583.
Water resource management ; Land management ; Soil degradation ; Soil management ; Erosion ; Sedimentation ; Water pollution ; Households ; Women ; Gender ; Farming systems
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 630.7 G000 IWM Record No: H040207)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/assessment/Water%20for%20Food%20Water%20for%20Life/Chapters/Chapter%2015%20Land.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H040207.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H040207.pdf
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2 Geheb, K.; Suhardiman, Diana. 2019. The political ecology of hydropower in the Mekong River Basin. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 37:8-13. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.02.001]
Hydropower ; Political aspects ; Ecology ; River basins ; Socioeconomic environment ; International waters ; Decision making / Southeast Asia / Myanmar / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam / Mekong River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049147)
Hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin is occurring at a rapid, though controversial pace, pitting a variety of stakeholder groups against each other at both intranational scale and international scale, and affecting state relations across scales. In this paper, we explore the narratives surrounding hydropower development in this basin, while referring to the concept of hydrosocial cycles as the central tool in our analysis. These look at the processes of socio-political construction of nature, viewing water as a medium that conveys power, and thus sources of both collaboration and conflict. While the Mekong hydropower narratives do, indeed, attempt to conflate the massive regulation of hydrological systems with large-scale social and economic ambitions, they are also intended to obscure a widespread and systemic effort to control and alienate the region’s waters via engineering at multiple scales.
3 Suhardiman, Diana; Geheb, K.. 2022. Participation and politics in transboundary hydropower development: the case of the Pak Beng Dam in Laos. Environmental Policy and Governance, 32(4):320-330. (Special Issue: Transboundary Environmental Governance: Emerging themes and lessons from Southeast Asia) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1974]
Hydropower ; International waters ; Participation ; Governance / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Mekong Basin / Pak Beng Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050849)
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Hydropower development in the lower Mekong Basin is being rapidly developed. Taking the Pak Beng hydropower project in Laos as a case study, this paper looks at participation and politics in transboundary hydropower development, how the latter is revealed by multiple, parallel institutional architectures in hydropower decision-making across scales, and its implications for transboundary environmental governance. We look at the institutional disjuncture in hydropower decision-making, how it is (re)produced by powerful, albeit conflicting narratives at respectively national and transboundary levels, power relations shaping these narratives, and how these translate into local community's limited ability to convey their voices and represent their development needs. Conceptually, the paper sheds light on the underlying politics in transboundary environmental governance by bringing to light the structural factors that prevent participation, including how these factors are justified, sustained and to a certain extent reproduced as an integral part of legal, policy, and institutional landscapes that govern hydropower decision-making across scales (e.g., local to transboundary).
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