China and the politics of hydropower development: Governing water and contesting responsibilities in the Mekong River Basin

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The Mekong River Basin has reemerged in recent years as a region of geostrategic significance. Extensive hydropower development, coupled with the effects of climate variability and increased resource competition, has generated a host of concerns regarding the future of the important Lancang-Mekong River. Given the contentious allocation of stakeholder responsibilities vis-à-vis the management of the river's shared water resources, the implications of such discord for human and ecological security in the region are wide-ranging. It is nevertheless within an increasingly contested public sphere that affected communities, together with local and international NGOs, have come to play a greater role in holding the Chinese government to account for the consequences of its hydro-development schemes, in particular the Lancang dam cascade in Yunnan Province.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: GEG Working Paper ; No. 2013/81

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pichamon Yeophantong
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Oxford, Global Economic Governance Programme (GEG)
• (where): Oxford
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/196341
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