Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River
Editors: Middleton, Carl, Lamb, Vanessa (Eds.)
- Fills major knowledge gap on a major river in Southeast Asia, with empirical and conceptual contributions
- Provides a multi-disciplinary perspective by a range of writers, including academics, policy-makers and civil society researchers, the majority from within Southeast Asia
- Offers new policy insights on a river at the cross-roads of a major political and development transition
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The Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational governance. With a focus on the contested politics of water and associated resources in the Salween basin, this book offers a collection of empirical case studies that highlights local knowledge and perspectives. Given the paucity of grounded social science studies in this contested basin, this book provides conceptual insights at the intersection of resource governance, development, and politics of knowledge relevant to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners at a time when rapid change is underway.
- Fills a significant knowledge gap on a major river in Southeast Asia, with empirical and conceptual contributions
- Inter-disciplinary perspective and by a range of writers, including academics, policy-makers and civil society researchers, the majority from within Southeast Asia.
- New policy insights on a river at the cross-roads of a major political and development transition
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River
- Editors
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- Carl Middleton
- Vanessa Lamb
- Series Title
- The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
- Series Volume
- 27
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-77440-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-77440-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-77439-8
- Series ISSN
- 2367-4024
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 328
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
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