Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion

Building a Shared Vision of Our River
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17519-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region

The Mekong River is a vital and valuable resource, with huge development potential for the six states through which it flows. Given the significant asymmetry of power between those states, however, there is a real risk that some might utilise it to the detriment of others.

Without a sense of regional belonging, it is difficult to imagine that these states and their constituent communities will take regional imperatives to heart, participate in joint regulatory frameworks, or adopt behaviours for upstream-downstream and lateral cooperation over the appropriation and use of their shared resources. How effectively has closer interdependence of the Mekong countries accommodated the development of a political-social-cultural space conducive to the growth of a regional "we-ness" among not only political elites, but also the general public? The contributors to this volume approach this question from a range of directions, including the impacts of tourism, regional development programmes, the Mekong Power Grid, and Sino-US rivalry.

This edited volume presents valuable insights for scholars of international relations, Asian studies, development studies, environment studies, policy studies, and human geography.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Charles Samuel

Chen, Xin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Economic Growth and Community Construction at the Greater Mekong Subregion (Xin Chen and Charles Samuel Johnston) 2. Constructing a region (the GMS) out of a river (Nicholas Tarling) 3. 100% Pure Mekong: The Key to Identity, Development and Tourism in the GMS? (Charles Samuel Johnston) 4. Developmental change in the GMS: Economic growth yes, community construction? (Kenneth Jackson) 5. The Sino-American Strategic Rivalry in the Mekong Development (Dinar Swastiningtyas Theosa) 6. Regional Cooperation through the Greater Mekong Subregion Program: Focus on Hydropower Development and the Mekong Power Grid (Nayeon Shin, Seungho Lee and Ilpyo ong) 7. Vietnam Mekong River Delta: A Regional Connection Perspective (Bui Quang Binh) 8. Participatory Water Governance and Impact Assessment: A Case Study of Hua Na Irrigation Project in Northeast Thailand (Kanokwan Manorom) 9. China and the Mekong: Domestic Hydro Politics (Xin Chen) Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Samuel Johnston has recently retired from the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology, where he had lectured from 1998 to 2018. His main research themes focus on tourism in Asia and in cities, and on the relationship between tourism and socio-economic development.

Xin Chen is Research Fellow and Program Officer at the New Zealand Asia Institute of the University of Auckland. Her research interests focus on East Asian regional integration, China-Asia relations, and Chinese politics.