Socialist hydropower governances compared: dams and resettlement as experienced by Dai and Thai societies from the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands

Rousseau, Jean-François; Orange, Didier; Habich-Sobiegalla, Sabrina; Thiet, Nguyen Van

doi:10.1007/s10113-017-1170-0

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“…We are interested in the storylines that local residents have with regard to resettlement (e.g. Rousseau [64]) Here we are not interested in gaining information from our research subjects based on the concepts or codes which we have designed a priori, but allow for those ideas to emerge from the fieldwork, in terms and meanings experienced and formed by the researched themselves [44]. This is closely related to ethnography as a research methodology [65].…”

Section: Case Study and Methodological Choices: Sesun 2 Dam In Cambodiamentioning

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Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Leong¹,

Mukhtarov²

2018

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This article investigates how the “constructivist turn” in public policy and international political economy informs the interaction of global ideas and local practice in water governance. We use the implementation of ideas associated with Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Lower Mekong river basin. This article provides some explanation of the attitudes in the villages in Cambodia due to the Sesan 2 Dam, which would see the relocation of thousands of people, damage fisheries, and inflict high coping costs on villagers. Based on 24 in-depth interviews with villagers, commune heads and local community leaders, we find diverse narratives which transcend the “pro or anti” dam narrative. We find four narrative types - myths, stories, noise and informed opinion, which relate to each other in degrees of social meaning and ideational force. Of these, the first two are more likely to be useful in terms of mobilization and policy-making. This typology provides a framework for analysis of social change in the studied villages and other context of policy translation. We should state that these four types are not separate from each other but are linked along two axis which together conscribe the four types of narratives outlined.

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Section: Case Study and Methodological Choices: Sesun 2 Dam In Cambodiamentioning

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Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Leong¹,

Mukhtarov²

2018

Preprint

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“…As in the case of Chile, conflicts over proposed dams reveal the different meanings and values of nature, as much as contemporary water management approaches are permeated by market-based approaches that exacerbate uneven power relations (PALOMINO-SCHALSCHA et al, 2016). In China and Vietnam, just as in the Amazon, the local and disorganised populations endure the greatest impacts of water projects, whereas the positive results of hydropower schemes are primarily appropriated by energy companies and urban and industrialised parts of the country (ROUSSEAU et al, 2017). The Chinese mega-project of the Three Gorges Dam has also dispossessed local communities, contributed towards the formation of capital -in the form of contemporary primitive accumulation -and benefited from the help of politicians and bureaucrats, who have also reinforced their positions in the structures of power (WEBBER, 2012).…”

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Amazon Development and the Political Economy of Water

Ioris

2020

Cad. Geogr.

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One of the main processes of politico-economic change in the Amazon Region today is the construction of large-scale water projects, especially for hydroelectricity generation and river navigation (associated with export-oriented agribusiness and mining). The article discusses resource grabbing and environmental injustices through a cultural, political economy framework to assess the main direction and the internal dimensions of development trends. Water projects are assessed concerning the contradictory advance of modernity, the ramifications of corrupted practices and the narrow basis of a prevailing technocratic and reductionist rationality.

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“…Beyond Europe, the Vietnamese government formally welcomed the WCD recommendations, and collaborated with the Asian Development Bank and United Nations Environment Programme‐Dams and Development Project (DDP) in a number of follow‐up activities, including a Vietnamese translation of the WCD report, and several stakeholder workshops (Dao, ). While the country did not legally adopt the WCD recommendations, some authors have described moderate progress in dam‐related resettlement policies as a potential result of the WCD's influence (Dao, ; Rousseau, Orange, Habich‐Sobiegalla, & Nguyen, ; Ty, Van Westen, & Zoomers, ).…”

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Debating dams: The World Commission on Dams 20 years on

Schulz

Adams

2019

WIREs Water

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The World Commission on Dams (WCD) was a global environmental governance forum that worked between 1998 and 2000 to try to resolve long-standing controversies between supporters and opponents of large dams. Its objectives were to assess the development effectiveness of large dams and to develop best practice guidelines for large dam construction and management, based on an extensive review of scientific evidence and wide-ranging stakeholder consultation. This paper reviews literature discussing the WCD, to understand its influence on the debate on large dams and beyond. We find that its influence is debated within four main contexts: (a) interpretations of stakeholder responses to the WCD report and recommendations; (b) the persistence of the kinds of impacts of large dams that gave rise to the Commission's work; (c) the different visions for appropriate follow-up strategies; and (d) insights from the WCD experience in the context of global environmental governance. Within these four contexts, we identify diverse opinions and directions of post-WCD development and sources of disagreement on its merits and legacy, ranging from calls for its full implementation to dismissal and opposition. Commentators also differ in their assessment of whether the WCD sparked truly novel insights and propositions for dam decision-making or whether it simply represented one among many other elements in the broader debate on dams. Most commonly, the WCD's work is cited in the context of persistent negative social and environmental impacts of dams: neither the impacts nor the controversy over large dams have ended. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of Water K E Y W O R D S dams, global environmental governance, hydropower, World Commission on Dams

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Socialist hydropower governances compared: dams and resettlement as experienced by Dai and Thai societies from the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Amazon Development and the Political Economy of Water

Debating dams: The World Commission on Dams 20 years on

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