1st Edition
Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single country capabilities.
This book illustrates the diversity of transborder natural resources, the pressures that they experience... Read more
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Transnational Natural Resource Governance in Border Regions
2. Social, Spatial, and Sectoral Boundaries in Transboundary Conservation of Central African Forests
3. State-Making and Transnationalism: Transboundary Flows in a Borderland of Western Borneo
4. A Resource-Hungry Malaysia, Transnational Mobile Peoples and the Absence of the State: A Lethal Combination for Natural Resources in Indonesia's Borderlands?
5. Territorialization, Regionalism and Natural Resource Management in the Peruvian Amazon
6. Territorialization Re-examined: Transborder Marine Resources Exploitation in Southeast Asia and Australia
7. Circumventing the Sea Cucumber War: Self-Regulation of Sea Cucumber Fisheries in Rishiri Island, Japan
8. Beyond Borders: Scaling-Up Marine Turtle Conservation Through Trans-National Arrangements
9. Adapting to Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate: The Role of Institutions in Transboundary Settings
10. Fighting Floods or Living with Floods? Streamlining Multiple Strategies of Flood Risk Management in Transborder River Basins
11. Greater Mekong Subregion Cooperation in Hydropower Development and Power Interconnection: Potentials, Challenges and Progresses
Index
Biography
Wil de Jong is a Professor at the Centre for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Denyse Snelder is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands Noboru Ishikawa is an Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
'The present book should be studied by politicians, decision-makers in general and biotechnicians in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Transborder affairs historically often provoked conflict and war. This should be avoided by harmonizing our notions, and this book shows the way.' Dr. Roelof A.A. Oldeman, emeritus professor of Silviculture & Forest Ecology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 'Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this volume brings together ten meticulously-analyzed and well-written case studies to examine the complexities of natural resource governance along borders both terrestrial and aquatic. Examples from four continents and several seas show vividly that apparently modern crises often have deep historical roots and seemingly simple disputes are socially and political multi-layered. This book is not only intellectually compelling, but also important in the most practical sense.' Christine Padoch, Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator, Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden
