Benefit sharing in the Mekong River basin

Lee, Seungho

doi:10.1080/02508060.2014.978974

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“…As a result, a rapid growth in the development of hydropower infrastructure in the LMB was observed in early 2017 (Friend, Arthur, & Keskinen, ). China negotiated unilaterally with each LMB country on these projects, however, rather than using regional cooperation mechanisms (Lee, ). This was part of a ‘soft approach’ by China to secure more energy resources (Lee, ) through negotiating on the basis of concentrated investments in infrastructure for the economic development of the LMB countries.…”

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“…As a result, a rapid growth in the development of hydropower infrastructure in the LMB was observed in early 2017 (Friend, Arthur, & Keskinen, 2009). China negotiated unilaterally with each LMB country on these projects, however, rather than using regional cooperation mechanisms (Lee, 2015). This was part of a 'soft approach'…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Benefit sharing as a form of regional cooperation has previously been studied in the context of the Mekong River Basin (Lee, 2015;McIntyre, 2015). It has been studied specifically in relation to benefits from hydropower development (Lebel, Lebel, Chitmanat, & Sriyasak, 2014;Wichelns, 2014), fisheries and aquaculture (Minh, 2008;Phomsouvanh, Saphakdy, & De Silva, 2015), and forestry (Ha, van Dijk, & Bush, 2012).…”

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Regional cooperation and benefit sharing for sustainable water resources management in the Lower Mekong Basin

Sok

Meas²,

Chea³

et al. 2019

Lakes & Reservoirs

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Benefit sharing is a concept associated with regional cooperation for sustainable water resources management. To this end, the present study analyses how implementation of this concept may contribute to economic growth and the promotion of sustainable livelihoods in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). It focuses on the balance between economic and human development, national interests, and the procedures used to manage water resources in the basin. It was found that: (a) Benefits obtained from the Mekong River are not equally shared between riparian countries because of inadequate regional cooperation, with economic and social development in the LMB being uneven, with Thailand and Vietnam achieving better human development, poverty reduction and food security outcomes than Laos and Cambodia; (b) Lack of shared national interests, or a common development agenda, has resulted in unsustainable water resource management outcomes; and (c) Procedures for water resources management agreed by the four LMB countries are well‐aligned with the conceptual framework for benefit sharing defined by Sadoff and Grey (2002, Water Policy, 4, 389), although while these procedures have the potential to facilitate a more cooperative agenda for equitable sharing of social, economic and environmental benefits from the water resources of the Mekong River, implementation of the 1995 Mekong Agreement currently remains controversial. The five procedures for water resource management developed by the Mekong River Commission have not resulted in satisfactory outcomes, due in part to the institution lacking regulatory authority.

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Regional cooperation and benefit sharing for sustainable water resources management in the Lower Mekong Basin

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Meas²,

Chea³

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Lakes & Reservoirs

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“…First, within the context of transboundary water management, benefit sharing has been suggested and promoted as a new way to seek cooperation between countries with competing interests by development-oriented agencies such as the World Bank, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and Overseas Development Institute (e.g., [11,15,16,40]). The suggested concept has been picked up by a number of scholars, who developed models for different transboundary river basins around the world (e.g., [41][42][43][44]), and by donor community and basin management organizations, who actively promoted the approach in negotiations to foster cooperation between riparian states (e.g., [45][46][47]). Second, the conference of parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) took active steps to establish a new international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS), which resulted in adoption of the Nagoya Protocol in 2010 [20,48].…”

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Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Soliev

Theesfeld

2017

Sustainability

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It is broadly agreed that development needs and effects from changing environment will increase pressure on the ways natural resources are utilized and shared at present. In most parts of the world, resource stress has already reached unprecedented levels setting resource sustainability high on the policy agenda on multiple governance levels. This paper aims to explain how the benefit sharing approach can help reframe the debate for sustainability, its advantages and disadvantages for transforming governance challenges and adapting to increasing resource stress. We bring together fragmented discussions of benefit sharing from three resource domains: water, land, and biodiversity. Both theoretical and empirical examples are provided to aid understanding of how benefit sharing can facilitate adaptive governance processes in complex socio-ecological systems. The findings highlight importance of integrating the long-term perspective when societies move from volumes toward values of shared natural resources, as well as setting environmental conservation and equitable allocation as the top priority for benefit sharing to be sustainable.

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“…In ideal benefit-sharing situations, the riparian countries view the benefits of water development and use as a positive-sum game associated with benefits optimization, rather than the zero-sum game associated with simple water sharing [5]. Such benefits are often economic, but can also include, for example, social, political or environmental benefits, and various mixes between these [6].…”

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Sharing Benefits in Transboundary Rivers: An Experimental Case Study of Central Asian Water-Energy-Agriculture Nexus

Jalilov

Varis

Keskinen

2015

Water

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Cooperation in transboundary river basins is challenged by the riparian countries' differing needs for water use. This is the case especially in Amu Darya Basin in Central Asia, where upstream Tajikistan is building the Rogun Hydropower Plant (RHP) to increase its energy security, while the downstream countries oppose the plant due to the feared negative impacts to their irrigated agriculture. Several experimental scenarios illustrate how the concept of benefit sharing could be used as a framework to investigate these water-energy-agriculture linkages in a transboundary context. Using a hydro-economic model, we investigate the economic benefits of various scenarios emphasizing agricultural and/or energy production, thus benefiting the riparian countries uniquely. Subsequently, we discuss how benefit-sharing arrangements with different forms of compensations could be used as a mechanism to facilitate transboundary cooperation. Our results indicate that several scenarios have a potential to increase the total energy-agriculture benefits in the basin. Yet, agreeing on the actual benefit-sharing mechanism between the countries poses special challenges as each may require countries to give up some of their anticipated maximum potential benefits. The presented scenarios provide a potential starting point for debates over benefit-sharing arrangements across countries needing to address the water-energy-agriculture nexus.

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Benefit sharing in the Mekong River basin

Cited by 31 publications

References 21 publications

Regional cooperation and benefit sharing for sustainable water resources management in the Lower Mekong Basin

Regional cooperation and benefit sharing for sustainable water resources management in the Lower Mekong Basin

Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Sharing Benefits in Transboundary Rivers: An Experimental Case Study of Central Asian Water-Energy-Agriculture Nexus

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