From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community, Igarashi, Seiichi

Автор: Kevin Woods, Michael B. Dwyer, Natalia Scurrah, Philip Hirsch
Название: Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region
ISBN: 0295750464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295750460
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War–era revolutions. This trend, marked by increased land concentration and the promotion of export-oriented agribusiness at the expense of smallholder farmers, exposes the convergence of capitalist relations and state agendas that expand territorial control within and across national borders. Turning Land into Capital examines the contradictions produced by superimposing twenty-first-century neoliberal projects onto diverse landscapes etched by decades of war and state socialism.

Chapters in the book explore geopolitics, legacies of colonialism, ideologies of development, and strategies to achieve land justice in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The resulting picture reveals the place-specific interactions of state and market ideologies, regional geopolitics, and local elites in concentrating control over land.

Автор: ramb, Rob (Ed.)
Название: White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
ISBN: 9811509972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811509971
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as "white gold", reflecting its centrality to their food security and well-being. In the past four decades, rice has also become a commercial crop of great importance to Mekong farmers, augmenting but not replacing its role in securing their subsistence. This book is based on collaborative research to (a) compare the current situation and trajectories of rice farmers within and between different regions of the Lower Mekong, (b) explore the value chains linking rice farmers with new technologies and input and output markets within and across national borders, and (c) understand the changing role of government policies in facilitating the on-going evolution of commercial rice farming. An introductory section places the research in geographical and historical context. Four major sections deal in turn with studies of rice farming, value chains, and policies in Northeast Thailand, Central Laos, Southeastern Cambodia, and the Mekong Delta. The final section examines the implications for rice policy in the region as a whole.

Название: Strategy for Promoting Safe and Environment-Friendly Agro-Based Value Chains in the Greater Mekong Subregion and Siem Reap Action Plan, 2018-2022
ISBN: 9292611305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292611309
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Описание: This report discusses opportunities for safe and environment-friendly agriculture products in the Greater Mekong Subregion and highlights the Siem Reap Action Plan, 2018–2022. As the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has made considerable progress in food security, addressing health, safety, and environmental concerns is also essential. The strategy and action plan will strengthen the commitment to food security, increase market access for small producers, and ensure inclusive food safety for the GMS. It aims at achieving the GMS vision of being a leading global supplier of safe and environment-friendly agriculture products through four pillars: policies, infrastructure, knowledge, and marketing.

Название: Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion
ISBN: 0367441012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367441012
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Mekong river is a vital resource for the 6 states through which it flows. This volume answers how effectively has closer interdependence of the Mekong countries accommodated the development of a political-social-cultural space conducive for the growth of a regional "we-ness".

Название: The Role of Special Economic Zones in Improving Effectiveness of Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Corridors
ISBN: 9292612921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292612924
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Описание: This study looks into the role of special economic zones in strengthening competitiveness of economic corridors in the Greater Mekong Subregion.It examines factors behind the success of special economic zones and the role they can play in Greater Mekong Subregion’s (GMS) economic corridor development. The analysis is based on a company-level survey in the Mae Sot special economic zone and interviews with clients operating in other zones throughout the GMS. The report offers policy recommendations for GMS ministers on how the zones can contribute toward improving competitiveness of economic corridors and thereby promote economic development.

Автор: Biggs David
Название: Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
ISBN: 0295991992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295991993
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History

In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam’s turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history.

Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s, colonial reclamation schemes and pacification efforts centered on the development of a dense network of new canals to open land for agriculture. These projects helped precipitate economic and environmental crises in the 1930s, and subsequent struggles after 1945 led to the balkanization of the delta into a patchwork of regions controlled by the Viet Minh, paramilitary religious sects, and the struggling Franco-Vietnamese government. After 1954, new settlements were built with American funds and equipment in a crash program intended to solve continuing economic and environmental problems. Finally, the American military collapse in Vietnam is revealed as not simply a failure of policy makers but also a failure to understand the historical, political, and environmental complexity of the spaces American troops attempted to occupy and control.

By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape - channelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestation - have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta.

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Автор: Igarashi Seiichi
Название: From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Transboundary Challenges
ISBN: 0367528746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367528744
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Incorporating elements of history, sociology, international relations, economics, geography, public health, biotechnology, and engineering, the contributors to this book pioneer a new interdisciplinary study of the Mekong Commons.

Название: How Strategic Environmental Assessment Can Influence Power Development Plans: Comparing Alternative Energy Scenarios for Power Planning in the Greater Mekong Subregion
ISBN: 9292546732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292546731
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Описание: The demand for power in the Greater Mekong Subregion is expected to triple by 2025. This could be reduced by about 15% if energy efficiency measures are incorporated, according to projections put forward in this publication. Other projections involving energy are also included in the publication, which assesses the impacts of alternative directions for the development of the power sector in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Recommendations are also offered to minimize and mitigate harmful impacts in the power sector.

Название: Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific
ISBN: 036743038X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367430382
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Описание: Both China and the US have contributed to minilateral initiatives in the Indo-Pacific. This book examines the rise of these arrangements, their challenges and opportunities, as well as their impact on the extant regional security architecture, including on the ASEAN-led multilateral order.

Название: Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion
ISBN: 9292578332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292578336
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Описание: Rural communities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are vulnerable to climate-related disasters. In 2008, tropical cyclone Nargis killed 84,500 people and impacted the livelihood of 2.4 million people. In 2011, large-scale floods in Thailand affected 14 million people and caused $45.7 billion in damages. This report presents findings of a climate risk financing study conducted by the GMS Core Environment Program in 28 rural communities in Cambodia, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam. Learn more about how communities cope with climate hazards, how this study contributes to the knowledge base on rural climate risk financing in the GMS, and how it can become the basis for more comprehensive feasibility studies on climate risk financing.

Название: Remote Sensing the Mekong
ISBN: 0367139065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367139063
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Описание: The Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia is one of the largest international river basins in the world. Its abundant natural resources are shared by six riparian countries and provide the basis for the livelihoods of more than 75 million people. However, ongoing socio-economic growth and related anthropogenic interventions impact the region’s ecosystems, and there is an urgent need for the monitoring of the basin's land surface dynamics. Remote sensing has evolved as a key tool for this task, allowing for up-to-date analyses and regular monitoring of environmental dynamics beyond physical or political boundaries and at various temporal and spatial scales. This book serves as a forum for remote-sensing scientists with an interest in the Mekong River Basin to present their recent basin-related works as well as applied case studies of the region. A broad range of sensors from high to medium resolution, and from multispectral to SAR systems, are applied, covering topics such as land cover/land use classification and comparison, time series analyses of climate variables, vegetation structure and vegetation productivity, as well as studies on flood mapping or water turbidity monitoring. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Автор: Nathanial Matthews, Kim Geheb
Название: Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region: Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives
ISBN: 1138377503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138377509
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book aims to provide a basin-wide analysis of the political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin.