The Mekong River is the longest watercourse in Southeast Asia. Although China has an
extensive hydropower program underway on the Upper Mekong, as yet there are no dams …

Since the early 1990s, the Mekong basin has been transformed from a largely free-flowing
basin to one that is increasingly impounded by large hydropower dams, impacting river …

The water–food–energy Nexus has emerged as a new perspective in debates concerned
with balancing potentially conflicting sectoral imperatives of large scale development …

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international
transboundary river basins in the develo** world. These shared rivers are the setting for …

Hydropower developments along the main stem of the Mekong River and its tributaries
cause transboundary effects within the Mekong Basin Region, which comprises parts of six …

This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing
internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all River …

The economic benefits of dams have been assumed to outweigh the costs, thus providing
rationale for construction of dams around the world. However, the development of these …

There are currently over 60 tributary and mainstream dams planned or under construction in
Lao PDR with 95% of the electricity from these dams slated to be exported to neighbouring …

The countries sharing the Lancang-Mekong River are entering a new era of hydropolitics
with a growing number of hydropower dams throughout the basin. Three 'powersheds' …

Scholars investigating activism against large dam developments in Asia usually focus on
those campaigning, but not on those the campaigns are aimed at–the dam developers. Yet …