Transborder environmental justice in regional energy trade in mainland South-East Asia
Abstract: "Thailand is mainland South-East Asia’s largest energy consumer. Since the early 1990s, community and civil society opposition to new domestic large-scale power projects has strengthened within Thailand. Partly in response and facilitated by deepening regional economic integration, Thailand’s electricity utility, private sector energy, and construction companies have increasingly looked towards neighbouring Laos and Myanmar to supply Thailand’s energy markets. This paper assesses the political economy of Thailand’s power sector development through the lens of distributive and procedural environmental justice, including the role of social movements and civil society in Thailand in reforming the country’s power planning process. The environmental and social costs of domestic power projects and power import projects are discussed. The author concludes that Thailand’s existing energy imports from hydropower projects in Laos and a gas project in Myanmar have exported environmental injus
- Weitere Titel
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Grenzüberschreitende Umweltgerechtigkeit im Bereich des regionalen Energiehandels auf dem südostasiatischen Kontinent
- Standort
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Umfang
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Online-Ressource
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies ; 5 (2012) 2 ; 292-315
- Klassifikation
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Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2012
- Urheber
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Middleton, Carl
- DOI
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10.4232/10.ASEAS-5.2-7
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-334914
- Rechteinformation
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Beteiligte
- Middleton, Carl
Entstanden
- 2012
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