Seminar Series: Abstract

12.30
August 18 2009
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)

Research Seminar - Contested waterscapes in the Mekong Region: hydropower, livelihoods and governance
Dr Tira Foran

Dr Tira Foran is an editor of the recently published Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance, which examines some of the most controversial hydropower projects in the Mekong Region: Pak Mun; Nam Theun 2; Hutgyi, Tasang and other dams on the Nu-Salween River. His seminar will highlight issues of irrigation development and wetland conversion from case studies of Pak Mun, Nam Theun 2, Hutgyi, Tasang and other dams on the Nu-Salween River, giving an account of how modern Mekong societies have responded to the challenges of inland fisheries management, drought and flood, and regional cooperation.