De-marginalizing the Mekong River Commission
Title | De-marginalizing the Mekong River Commission |
Annotated Record | Not Annotated |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Dore, Lazarus |
Secondary Authors | Molle, Foran, Käkönen |
Secondary Title | Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region |
Pagination | 357-381 |
Publisher | Earthscan |
Place Published | London, Sterlin, VA |
Key themes | Hydropower, Impact Assessment, Transboundary Governance |
Abstract | The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is mandated to engage in water resources development in the so-called ‘Lower’ Mekong part of the region – the Mekong River Basin in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Different people call on the MRC to be a social and environmental guardian of the basin; a platform for information exchange; a knowledge producer, synthesizer and broker; an investment facilitator; and convenor of multi-stakeholder processes demonstrating high-quality deliberative practice. Can it play all these roles simultaneously? Since 1995, the MRC (and its predecessors since the 1950s) has been and remains the focus of substantial organization-building efforts. During recent years, the MRC has received much attention from people intent on using, improving, empowering or criticizing it. This chapter reflects on the practice and potential of the MRC at a time when all Mekong region governments need to make informed decisions about whether, or how, to proceed with major projects that will have dramatic, transformative, national and transboundary impacts. |
URL | http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers16-05/010050254.pdf |
Availability | Available for Download |
Countries | Cambodia, China, Laos, Regional, Thailand, Vietnam |
Document Type | Book Chapter |
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