1st Edition
China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Key factors shaping China’s transboundary water policies and practices
1.The thirsty China and its transboundary waters (Hongzhou Zhang and Mingjiang Li)
2.Assessing China’s domestic hydropolitics (Scott Moore)
3.Transboundary river management in Southeast Asia: The role of Chinese dam-builders (Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, and Johan Nordensvard)
4.The evolution of China’s water diplomacy in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Motivation and policy choices (Yanjun Guo)
Part II: Major transboundary rivers
5.Transboundary cooperation on the Amur River Basin in recent decades (Eugene Simonov and Eugene Egidarev)
6.Analysis on China-DPRK joint development in Yalu River and Tumen River: From the perspective of China (Zhifei Li)
7.Linking environmental security to transboundary water governance to manage the Mekong River (R. Edward Grumbine)
8.Conceptualizing Chinese engagement in Myanmar: An analysis of the Mong Ton and Hat Gyi Dam projects (Julian Kirchherr)
9.Building bridges through dialogue for the Brahmaputra River Basin (Vishaka Gulati, Arundhati Deka, Safa Fanaian, Sumit Vij, and Anamika Barua)
10.Sino-Kazakhstan transboundary water cooperation: History, current status and future priorities (Zhanggui Zhou and Ruolin Wang)
Part III: China and global water governance
11.China and global water governance: New developments (Hongzhou Zhang and Mingjiang Li)
Index
Biography
Hongzhou Zhang is a Research Fellow in the China Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Mingjiang Li is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the China Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
