Knowing the Salween River : Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River.

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Main Author: Middleton, Carl.
Other Authors: Lamb, Vanessa.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:The Anthropocene: Politik--Economics--Society--Science Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Foreword -- A Reflection on the Role of Researchers and Research on the Salween River: Past, Present and Future -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Theme 1: Resource Politics -- 1.3 Theme 2: Politics of Making Knowledge -- 1.4 Theme 3: Reconciling Knowledge Across Divides -- References -- 2 Salween: What's in a Name? -- 2.1 Introduction: Decolonising Development and Renaming the Salween? -- 2.2 Names of Control and Controversy -- 2.3 Names and Their Implications -- 2.4 Euphonious River Labels -- 2.5 Decolonising the River's Name, but for What Kind of Change? -- 2.6 Concluding Points -- References -- 3 Hydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Hydropolitics: Linking Subnational and Cross-Border Governance to Contests and Conflicts over Water -- 3.3 Emergence and Current Status of Large Dam Plans on the Salween River -- 3.4 Transboundary Electricity Trade and the Salween Dams -- 3.5 Myanmar's Peace Negotiations, Conflict and Hydropower Dams -- 3.6 Civil Society Work Across Scales -- 3.7 Transboundary Water Governance -- 3.8 Salween Cooperation Through the Lens of Hydropolitics -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- 4 From Hydropower Construction to National Park Creation: Changing Pathways of the Nu River -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methodology -- 4.3 The Transformation of China's Development Thinking -- 4.4 The Hydropower Development Pathway -- 4.4.1 Dissolution of the State Power Corporation -- 4.4.2 Local Government Response to the WEPT Strategy and Nu River Hydropower Plans -- 4.4.3 Challenges from the State Environmental Protection Administration -- 4.4.4 Suspension and Consequence of the Nu River Hydropower Plan -- 4.4.5 Current Status of WEPT in Yunnan Province. 
505 8 |a 4.4.6 Small Hydropower on Nu River Tributaries -- 4.5 Civil Society River Protection Pathway -- 4.5.1 Civil Society Strategies and Activities -- 4.5.2 The World Heritage Committee and Nu River Protection -- 4.6 The Energy Reform Pathway -- 4.7 The National Park Pathway -- 4.8 Water Conservancy Pathway -- 4.9 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Rites, Rights, and Water Justice in Karen State: A Case Study of Community-Based Water Governance and the Hatgyi Dam -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Community-Based Water Governance Arrangements in Karen State -- 5.2.1 Community's Rites at Daw La Lake and Kaw Ku Island -- 5.2.2 A Rights Approach to the Daw La Lake -- 5.3 Hatgyi Dam: Centralization of Decision-Making and Civil Society Response -- 5.4 Federalism, the Peace Negotiation Process and the Hatgyi Dam -- 5.5 Towards a Rites and Rights Approach for Justice in Water Governance -- References -- 6 Contested Water Governance in Myanmar/Burma: Politics, the Peace Negotiations and the Production of Scale -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Water Through a Hydrosocial Lens and the Production of Scale -- 6.3 Transforming Water Governance in Myanmar -- 6.4 National Water Policy Regime -- 6.5 Salween Peace Park: A Local Initiative -- 6.6 Contesting Scale: A Battleground of Water Governance in Burma -- 6.7 Towards Future Rules of Water Governance -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 A State of Knowledge of the Salween River: An Overview of Civil Society Research -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Values and Existing Threats in the Salween River Basin -- 7.2.1 Livelihood Values -- 7.2.2 Biodiversity Values -- 7.2.3 Values in Addition to Threats -- 7.2.4 Threats to the Salween -- 7.3 Conflict and Peace -- 7.4 Threats and Challenges of Governance -- 7.5 Linking Civil Society Actions and Improving Decision-Making for the Salween -- 7.6 Coming Together: Bridging Epistemologies and Policies. 
505 8 |a References -- 8 "We Need One Natural River for the Next Generation": Intersectional Feminism and the Nu Jiang Dams Campaign in China -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Methodology -- 8.3 Background: Civil Society and Environmentalism in Authoritarian China -- 8.4 Background: Nu Jiang Project and Campaign -- 8.5 Intersectional Feminist Analysis of the Nu Jiang Campaign -- 8.5.1 Intersectional Feminist Literature and Identity in China -- 8.5.2 Nu Jiang Campaign Profile and Identities -- 8.6 Political Opportunities and the Nu Jiang Campaign -- 8.6.1 Elite Allies and a Divided Elite -- 8.6.2 State Repression: How Identity and Location Matter -- 8.7 Conclusion and Synthesis -- References -- 9 Local Context, National Law: The Rights of Karen People on the Salween River in Thailand -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Local Context: Indigenous Karen and Livelihoods in Villages on the Salween -- 9.2.1 Sob Moei Village -- 9.2.2 Mae Sam Lab Village -- 9.2.3 Tha Ta Fang Village -- 9.2.4 Community Use of Land -- 9.2.5 Forest -- 9.2.6 Water -- 9.3 National Law and Challenges to the Salween Karen Community -- 9.3.1 Citizenship -- 9.3.2 Community rights -- 9.3.3 Land Law -- 9.3.4 Forest Law -- 9.4 Tensions Between National Law and Local Practice: Implications for Karen Indigeneity and Culture -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- 10 An Ethnobotanical Survey in Shan State, Myanmar: Where Thanlwin Biodiversity, Health, and Deforestation Meet -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Significance and Context of Herbal Medicines in Myanmar -- 10.3 Methods -- 10.3.1 Site Rationale: Geography and Livelihoods of the Four Villages -- 10.3.1.1 Village 1: Yae Lei Kyun -- 10.3.1.2 Village 2: Tone Kyat -- 10.3.1.3 Village 3: Wa Soke -- 10.3.1.4 Village 4: Ohn Tone -- 10.4 Research Challenges: Translators and Transportation -- 10.5 Collected Botanical Species and Local People's Lives and Livelihoods. 
505 8 |a 10.5.1 Summary of Collected Plants -- 10.5.2 The Role of Herbalists -- 10.5.3 Local Medicinal Plants for Trade -- 10.6 Threats to Herbal Medicine: Deforestation, Cash Crops, Trade and Local Knowledge Transfer -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Not only Anti-dam: Simplistic Rendering of Complex Salween Communities in Their Negotiation for Development in Thailand -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Methodology -- 11.3 Communities' Production of Knowledge and Discourse -- 11.4 Targeting the Salween Borderlands: Civilizing the Margins by the States -- 11.5 Life and Development in Local Communities -- 11.6 Civil Society and Communities Resisting the Hatgyi Dam Project -- 11.6.1 Villagers Conduct Thai Baan Research -- 11.6.2 The Villagers and khwamcharoen -- 11.6.3 Local Infrastructure and Basic Services -- 11.6.4 Citizenship -- 11.6.5 Village Histories and Relationship with the King of Thailand -- 11.6.6 Disaster Response -- 11.7 Negotiating khwamcharoen: EGAT and the State -- 11.7.1 EGAT and khwamcharoen -- 11.8 Analysis: Villagers, the Thai State and Power Relations -- 11.9 Conclusions -- References -- 12 Powers of Access: Impacts on Resource Users and Researchers in Myanmar's Shan State -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Concepts: Expanding a Theory of Access -- 12.3 Research Methods: Collaboration in a Restricted Research Setting -- 12.3.1 The Negotiation and Collaborative Research Approach Developed -- 12.3.2 Tools for Transparency -- 12.4 Implications of Access -- 12.4.1 Informal and Formal Governance Impacts on Access -- 12.4.2 Environmental Degradation Limiting Access -- 12.4.3 Access and Identity -- 12.5 Conclusions -- References -- 13 Fisheries and Socio-economic Change in the Thanlwin River Estuary in Mon and Kayin State, Myanmar -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Background and Governance of the Lower Thanlwin -- 13.3 Research Methods and Approach. 
505 8 |a 13.4 Estuary Region and Functions -- 13.5 Research Results: Fisheries Decline Evidenced by a Range of Indicators -- 13.5.1 But, Why? A Range of Reasons for Fisheries Decline -- 13.5.2 Overfishing and a Changing Fishery -- 13.5.3 Sedimentation and a Changing River -- 13.5.4 Socio-economic Changes in the Village -- 13.6 Discussion and Conclusion: How to Make Sense of a Transforming Estuary? -- References -- 14 The Impact of Land Cover Changes on Socio-economic Conditions in Bawlakhe District, Kayah State -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Methodology -- 14.3 Land Cover Change and Livelihoods in Bawlakhe District -- 14.3.1 Period of Armed Conflict (Before 2010) -- 14.3.2 Following the Peace Agreement (2010-2015) -- 14.3.3 The NLD Government Period (2016-Present) -- 14.4 Implications of Land Cover and Livelihoods Changes -- 14.5 Implications for Forest Protection and Local Livelihoods -- 14.6 Changing Land Cover Governance -- 14.6.1 Future Policy Implications -- 14.7 Conclusion -- References -- 15 Local Knowledge and Rangeland Protection on the Tibetan Plateau: Lessons for Conservation and Co-management of the Upper Nu-Salween and Yellow River Watersheds -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Methods -- 15.3 Study Sites -- 15.4 Debating Land Degradation: Building on Political Ecology -- 15.5 Herders' Local Knowledge and Practices -- 15.5.1 Salween Deities and the Spiritual Significance of the Land and River -- 15.6 Research Findings on Local Knowledge as Cultural Capital to Negotiate for Natural Resource Management -- 15.6.1 Tensions Between Experimental Zones, the "Holy Mountain," and Mining -- 15.6.2 Eco-resettlement as Alternative Livelihood -- 15.6.3 Caterpillar Fungus and Livelihood Change -- 15.7 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 16 Future Trajectories: Five Short Concluding Reflections. 
505 8 |a 16.1 Concluding Commentary: State of Knowledge and Geographies of Ignorance of/in the Salween River Basin. 
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