Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion: Building a Shared Vision of Our River

ISBN-13: 9781032175195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Charles Samuel Johnston; Xin Chen

Opis

The Mekong river is a vital resource for the 6 states through which it flows. This volume answers how effectively has closer interdependence of the Mekong countries accommodated the development of a political-social-cultural space conducive for the growth of a regional “we-ness”.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of contributors 1 Introduction: Economic growth and community construction in the Greater Mekong Subregion XIN CHEN AND CHARLES SAMUEL JOHNSTON2 Constructing a region (the Greater Mekong Subregion) out of a river NICHOLAS TARLING3 100% Pure Mekong: The key to identity, development, and tourism in the Greater Mekong Subregion? CHARLES SAMUEL JOHNSTON4 Developmental change in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Economic growth yes, community construction? KENNETH JACKSON5 The Sino-US strategic rivalry in the development of the Mekong DINAR SWASTININGTYAS THEOSA6 Regional cooperation through the Greater Mekong Subregion programme: Focus on hydropower development and the Mekong power grid NAYEON SHIN, SEUNGHO LEE AND ILPYO HONG7 Vietnam Mekong River Delta: A regional connection perspective BUI QUANG BINH8 Participatory water governance and impact assessment: A case study of the Hua Na Irrigation project in northeast Thailand KANOKWAN MANOROM9 China and the Mekong: Domestic hydro politics XIN CHENIndex

O autorze

Charles Samuel Johnston has recently retired from the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology, where he had lectured from 1998 to 2018. His main research themes focus on tourism in Asia and in cities, and on the relationship between tourism and socio-economic development.

Xin Chen is Research Fellow and Program Officer at the New Zealand Asia Institute of the University of Auckland. Her research interests focus on East Asian regional integration, China-Asia relations, and Chinese politics.