The catchment area of the Mekong River and its tributaries extends
from China, through Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and to
Vietnam. The water resources of the Mekong region - from the
Irrawaddy and Nu-Salween in the west, across the Chao Phraya to the
Lancang-Mekong and Red River in the east- are increasingly
contested. Governments, companies, and banks are driving new
investments in roads, dams, diversions, irrigation schemes,
navigation facilities, power plants and other emblems of
conventional 'development'. Their plans and interventions should
provide some benefits, but also pose multiple burdens and risks to
millions of people dependent on wetlands, floodplains and aquatic
resources, in particular, the wild capture fisheries of rivers and
lakes. This book examines how large-scale projects are being
proposed, justified, and built. How are such projects contested and
how do specific governance regimes influence decision making? The
book also highlights the emergence of new actors, rights and
trade-off debates, and the social and environmental consequences of
'water resources development'. This book shows how diverse, and
often antagonistic, ideologies and interests are contesting for
legitimacy. It argues that the distribution of decision-making,
political, and discursive power influences how the waterscapes of
the region will ultimately look and how benefits, costs and risks
will be distributed. These issues are crucial for the
transformation of waterscapes and the prospects for democratizing
water governance in the Mekong region. The book is part of the
action-research of the M-POWER (Mekong Program on Water,
Environment and Resilience) knowledge network. Published with IFAD,
CG|AR Challenge Program on Water & Food, M-POWER, Project
ECHEL-EAU and HEINRICH BOLL STIFTUNG
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