Essays about: "Mekong river basin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Mekong river basin.

  1. 1. Power Relations in the Mekong River Basin - A look into the discourse of the Mekong River Commission

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Kipras Bajorinas; [2021]
    Keywords : Power; Mekong river basin; discourse; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study concerns itself with power assymetries between states as well as cooperative arrangements within the Mekong River Basin. Transboundary frameworks for cooperation are often faced with challenges in harmonizing policy in the face of competing interests and unequal power relations between states and stakeholders. READ MORE

  3. 2. China’s Transboundary River Governance: The Case of the Lancang-Mekong River

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Viltė Brilingaitė; [2018]
    Keywords : International Relations; Classical realism; Lancang – Mekong River; transboundary river; China; Great power; National Interest; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to analyze how does China pursue its national interest in the governance of the Lancang- Mekong River in domestic and international terms. The analysis was done through the lens of the classical realism theoretical school. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hydropower in Cambodia : Competing discursive story-lines of a contested development path

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Johannes Nilsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Hydropower; Cambodia; Mekong River; Sustainable Development; Story-lines; Discursive Closure; Discursive Elements; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis uses discourse to analyze how different story-lines of hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin reproduce the concept of sustainable development. With actors advocating sometimes diametrically opposite development paths resulting in different social, economic and environmental trade-offs they all refer to and motivate their agendas in terms of sustainable development. READ MORE

  5. 4. The matter of access to capitals : a case study of gender-differentiated vulnerability to flooding in Laos PDR

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Jacqueline Ernerot; [2013]
    Keywords : vulnerability; flooding; gender; access to capitals; Community Capitals Framework; Laos PDR;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes gender-differentiated vulnerability to the flooding in 2011 within a rural community in Laos PDR - the village of Ban Lao situated in the Mekong River basin. The study employs the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) to explore what resources women and men in the case study had lost in the flooding to thereafter be able to analyze what capitals where most essential for their coping and adaptation capacity. READ MORE

  6. 5. IWRM in international river basins : hydropower dams and transboundary water conflicts in the Lower Salween river basin

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment

    Author : Florian Zeitler; [2013]
    Keywords : Transboundary; Integrated water ressource management; basin management; implementation of strategies; hydropower;

    Abstract : Sharing a river's potential in terms of hydropower is a common way in transboundary river basins, especially in regions with rising energy demands. However, new strategies in river and basin management are necessary to sustainably benefit from water resources. READ MORE