Table of Contents: Knowing the Salween River :

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

Bibliographic Details
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
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16.1 Concluding Commentary: State of Knowledge and Geographies of Ignorance of/in the Salween River Basin.

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

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