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Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion: Building a Shared Vision of Our River book cover

1st Edition

Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion Building a Shared Vision of Our River

Edited By Charles Samuel Johnston, Xin Chen Copyright 2020
196 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge
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The Mekong River is a vital and valuable resource, with huge development potential for the six states through which it flows. Given the significant asymmetry of power between those states, however, there is a real risk that some might utilise it to the detriment of others. Without a sense of regional belonging, it is difficult to imagine that these states and their constituent communities will... Read more

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

1 Introduction: Economic growth and community construction in the Greater Mekong Subregion

XIN CHEN AND CHARLES SAMUEL JOHNSTON

2 Constructing a region (the Greater Mekong Subregion) out of a river

NICHOLAS TARLING

3 100% Pure Mekong: The key to identity, development, and tourism in the Greater Mekong Subregion?

CHARLES SAMUEL JOHNSTON

4 Developmental change in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Economic growth yes, community construction?

KENNETH JACKSON

5 The Sino-US strategic rivalry in the development of the Mekong

DINAR SWASTININGTYAS THEOSA

6 Regional cooperation through the Greater Mekong Subregion programme: Focus on hydropower development and the Mekong power grid

NAYEON SHIN, SEUNGHO LEE AND ILPYO HONG

7 Vietnam Mekong River Delta: A regional connection perspective

BUI QUANG BINH

8 Participatory water governance and impact assessment: A case study of the Hua Na Irrigation project in northeast Thailand

KANOKWAN MANOROM

9 China and the Mekong: Domestic hydro politics

XIN CHEN

Index

Biography

Charles Samuel Johnston has recently retired from the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology, where he had lectured from 1998 to 2018. His main research themes focus on tourism in Asia and in cities, and on the relationship between tourism and socio-economic development.



Xin Chen is Research Fellow and Program Officer at the New Zealand Asia Institute of the University of Auckland. Her research interests focus on East Asian regional integration, China-Asia relations, and Chinese politics.

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