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R E P O R T S A N D A R T I C L E S O N E N E R G Y A N D N AT U R A L RESOURCES IN THE MEKONG REGION

Cambodia | Laos | Thailand | Vietnam | Mekong

Cambodia
be, Hitofumi; Katayama, Akio; Sah, Sah, Bhuwneshar P.; Toriu, Tsuyoshi; Samy, Sat; Pheach, Phon; Adams, Mark A. and Grierson, Pauline F. (2007). Potential for rural electrification based on biomass gasification in Cambodia. Biomass and Bioenergy Vol. 31 No. 9, pp. 656-664. BCSE (2005). Renewable Energy in Asia: The Cambodia Report. Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy. Dasgupta, Susmita; Deichmann, Uwe; Meisner, Craig and Wheeler, David (2005). Where is the PovertyEnvironment Nexus? Evidence from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam. World Development Vol. 33 No. 4, pp. 617-638. Evans, Tom; Gray, Thomas N.E.; Hong, Chamnan; Mouyheang, S. and Vanny, L. (2005). Farming and its impact on flooded grasslands around the Tonle Sap Lake - A survey in the Kruos Kraom area of Kompong Thom. Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia Program; Phnom Penh. Hubbel, Dave (2006). Lao dams threaten Cambodia. Watershed Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 31-36. JICA (2002). The Kingdom of Cambodia - From Reconstruction to Sustainable Development. Institute for International Cooperation; Japan International Cooperation Agency. Keskinen, Marko (2006). The Lake with Floating Villages: Socioeconomic Analysis of the Tonle Sap Lake. International Journal of Water Resources Development,Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 463-480. Keskinen, Marko, Kknen, Mira, Tola, Prom & Varis, Olli (2007). The Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia; water-related conflicts with abundance of water, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 49-59. Lamberts, Dirk (2006). The Tonle Sap Lake as a Productive Ecosystem. International Journal of Water Resources Development, Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 481-495. Le Billon, Philippe (2002). Logging in muddy waters: the politics of forest exploitation in Cambodia. Critical Asian Studies Vol. 34 No. 4, pp. 563-586. Le Billon, Philippe (2000). The political ecology of transition in Cambodia: 1989-1999; War, peace and forest exploitation. Development and Change Vol. 31, pp. 78-805. Ratner, Blake D. (2006). Community Management by Decree? Lessons From Cambodia's Fisheries Reform. Society and Natural Resources, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 79-86. Resurreccion, Bernadette P. (2006). Rules, Roles and Rights: Gender, Participation and Community Fisheries Management in Cambodia's Tonle Sap Region. International Journal of Water Resources Development, Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 433-447. Resurreccion, Bernadette P. (2009) Gender, Legitimacy and Patronage-driven Participation: Fisheries Management in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia. In B. Resurreccion & R. Elmhirst (Eds): Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions. London: Earthscan. Sina, L. (2003). Cambodia Fisheries Conflicts in the Post War Era and the Creation of Fishing Communities: A case of fishing lot conflicts around Tonle Sap River and the Great Lake. Journal of Regional Fisheries, Vol. 43 No. 2, pp. 89-106. Tarr, Chou Meng (2003). Fishing lots and people in Cambodia. In Mingsan Kaosa-ard and Dore, John (eds.) Social Challenges for the Mekong Region. Bangkok: White Lotus. UNDP-Cambodia (2005). Regional Energy Programme for Poverty Reduction (REP-PoR), Cambodia Cambodia Country Report. Vickery, Michael (2007). Cambodia: A Political Survey. Editions Funan; Phnom Penh. Williamson, Andrew (2006). Biofuel: A Sustainable Solution for Cambodia? Cambodian Research Centre for Development, Phnom Penh. Zurbrgg, Andreas (2004). Where there is water, there is fish: an analysis and critical assessment of Cambodia's Tonl Sap fisheries. Project Report ECON5197; Master of Commerce in Environmental Economics, University of New South Wales. jendal, Joakim and Sedara, Kim (2006). Korob, Kaud, Klach: In Search of Agency in Rural Cambodia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 37 No. 3, pp. 507-526.

Laos
Baran E. and Ratner B.D. (2007) The Don Sahong Dam and Mekong Fisheries. WorldFish Center, Phnom Penh.

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Cohen, Paul T. (2000). Resettlement, opium and labour dependence: Akha - Tai relations in Northern Laos. Development and Change Vol. 31, pp. 179-200. DGS (2006). Diagnostic Study on Renewable Energy Potential and Feasibility in Southeast Asia: Study on Solar and Biomass Energy Potential and Feasibility in Lao PDR. Asia Pro Eco project TH/Asia Pro Eco/05 (101302). Hodgdon, Benjamin D. (2006). No success like failure: Policy versus reality in the Lao forestry sector. Watershed Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 37-46. IISD (2007). Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization in the Bio-diesel Sector of the Lao PDR. International Institute for Sustainable Development. International Rivers (2008). Power Surge: The Impacts of Rapid Dam Development in Laos. Berkeley. Rigg, Jonathan (2005). Living with transition in Laos. London: Routledge. Sadettanh, Kayasith and Kumar, S. (2004). Renewable Energy Resources Potential in Lao PDR. Energy Sources Vol. 26, pp. 9-18. Smits, Mattijs (2008). Neglected decentralized rural electricity production in the Lao PDR: A technography of pico-hydropower analyzed in a political ecology framework. MSc thesis, Department of Social Sciences; Wageningen University. Vandergeest, Peter (2003). Land to some tillers: development-induced displacement in Laos. International Social Science Journal Vol. 175, pp. 47-56. World Bank (2004). Lao People's Democratic Republic and The World Bank Group.

Thailand
Foran, Tira (2006). Rivers of Contention: Pak Mun Dam, Electricity Planning, and State-Society Relations in Thailand, 1932-2004. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney. Forsyth, Tim and Walker, Andrew (2008). Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand. University of Washington Press, Seattle. Greacen, Chris (2008). Low Head Microhydro -Thai Style. Home Power Magazine Issue 124, pp. 76-80. Greacen, Chris and Martin, Samuel (2007). Analysis of Barriers to the Establishment of Sustainable Rural Renewable Energy Systems in Mae Hong Song. Commissioned by UNDP as background document for GEF project to foster development of renewable energy in Mae Hong Song, Thailand. Hirsch, Philip (1990). Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand. Oxford University press. Johnson, Craig and Forsyth, Timothy (2002). In the Eyes of the State: Negotiating a Rights-Based Approach'' to Forest Conservation in Thailand. World Development Vol. 30 No. 9, pp. 1591-1605. Lebel, Louis; Nguyen Hoang Tri, Amnuay Saengnoree, Suparb Pasong, Urasa Buatama and Le Kim Thoa (2002). Industrial Transformation and Shrimp Aquaculture in Thailand and Vietnam: Pathways to Ecological, Social, and Economic Sustainability? AMBIO Vol. 31 No. 4, pp. 311-323. Lynch, Andrew; Greacen, Chris; Tavaranan, Salinee and Bjarnegard, Fredrik (2006). Threatened Sustainability: the Uncertain Future of Thailand's Solar Home Systems. Border Green Energy Team. Manorom, Kanokwan (2006). People's EIA: A mechanism for grassroots participation in environmental decision-making. Watershed Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 26-30. Missingham, B.D. (2003). The assembly of the poor in Thailand: From local struggles to national protest movement. Bangkok, Thailand: Silkworm Books. Molle, F., Floch, P. (2008). Megaprojects and social and environmental changes: The case of the Thai "Water Grid". Ambio 37(3): 199-2004. Rigg, Jonathan and Ritchie, Mark (2002). Production, consumption and imagination in rural Thailand. Journal of Rural Studies Vol. 18, pp. 359-371. Rigg, Jonathan and Nattapoolwat, Sakunee (2001). Embracing the global in Thailand: activism and pragmatism in an era of deagrarianization. World Development Vol. 29 No. 6, pp. 945-960. Sneddon, Chris (2002). Water Conflicts and River Basins: The Contradictions of Comanagement and Scale in Northeast Thailand. Society and Natural Resources Vol. 15, pp. 725-741. Vandergeest, Peter (2003). Racialization and citizenship in Thai forest politics. Society and Natural Resources Vol. 16, pp. 19-37.

Vietn am
Biggs, David (2010) Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 288 pp. Biggs, David A. (2004). Between Rivers and Tides: A Hydraulic History of the Mekong Delta, 1820-1975. Ph.D. Thesis. Department of History; University of Washington. Brocheux, Pierre (1995). The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860-1960. Madison: University of Wisconsin. Fortier, Franois (2010) Taking a Climate Chance: A Procedural Critique of Viet Nam's Climate Change Strategy". Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 51(3), 229-247. Gainsborough, Martin (2003). Corruption and the politics of economic decentralisation in Vietnam.

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Journal of Contemporary Asia Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 69-84. Hirsch Philip and Wyatt, Andrew (2002). Negotiating local livelihoods: Scales of conflict in the Se San River Basin. Asia Pacic Viewpoint Vol. 45 No. 1, pp. 51-68. Howie, Charles (2005). High dykes in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam bring social gains and environmental pains. Aquaculture News Vol. 32, pp. 15-17. Kknen, Mira (2008). Mekong Delta at crossroads: More adaptation or control? Ambio. Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 205-212 Le Coq, Jean-Franois and Trbuil, Guy (2005). Impact of liberalization on rice intensification, agricultural diversification, and rural livelihoods in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 519-547. Luttrell, C. (2001). Institutional change and natural resource use in coastal Vietnam. GeoJournal 54, 529-540. Miller, Fiona (2003). Society-water Relations in the Mekong Delta: A Political Ecology of Risk. University of Sydney, Sydney. Shanks, Edwin; Luttrell, Cecilia; Conway, Tim; Vu Manh Loi and Ladinsky, Judith (2004). Understanding Pro-Poor Political Change: The Policy Process in Vietnam. Overseas Development Institute; London. Taylor, Philip (2004). Redressing disadvantages or re-arranging inequality? Development interventions and local responses in the Mekong Delta. In Taylor, Philip (ed.) Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; Singapore, pp. 236-270. Tran Thanh Be, Bach Tan Sinh and Miller, Fiona (eds.) (2007). Challenges to Sustainable Development in the Mekong Delta: Regional and National Policy Issues and Research Needs. The Sustainable Mekong Research Network; Bangkok.

Mekong
Bakker, Karen (1999). The politics of hydropower: developing the Mekong. Political Geography Vol. 18, pp. 209-232. Diokno, Maria Serena I. and Nguyen Van Chinh (eds.) (2006). The Mekong Arranged & Rearranged. Mekong Press; Chiang Mai. ECA (2002). Emerging Lessons in Private Provision of Rural Infrastructure Services Rural Electrification in South East Asia: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam - Final Report. Economic Consulting Associates. Foran, Tira; Greacen, Chris and Middleton, Carl (2008). Sustainable energy futures for the Mekong Region. Paper presented at Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Challenge. 21-23 February 2008, Freie Universitt Berlin. Fox, Coleen A. and Sneddon, Chris (2007). Transboundary river basin agreements in the Mekong and Zambezi basins: enhancing environmental security or securitizing the environment? International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 237-261. Fox, Coleen A. and Sneddon, Chris (2004). Flood Pulses, International Watercourse Law, and Common Property Resources: a Case Study of the Mekong Lowlands, Research Paper No. 2005/20, UNU/WIDER. Goh, Evelyn (2007). Developing The Mekong: Regionalism And Regional Security In China-Southeast Asian Relations. Adelphi Paper 387, The International Institute for Strategic Studies; London. Hirsch, Philip and Jensen, Kurt Mrck (2006). National interests and transboundary water governance in the Mekong. Australia Mekong Resource Centre, Sydney. Hirsch, Philip (2001). Globalisation, regionalisation and local voices: the Asian Development Bank and re-scaled politics of the environment in the Mekong Region. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 237-251. Kummu, Matti (2008). Spatio-temporal Scales of Hydrological Impact Assessement in Large River Basins: The Mekong Case. Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology, Water & Development Publications; Helsinki University of Technology. Lebel, Louis; Garden, Po and Imamura, Masao (2005). The Politics of Scale, Position, and Place in the Governance of Water Resources in the Mekong Region. Ecology and Society Vol. 10 No. 2. Lebel, Louis; Dore, John; Daniel, Rajesh & Koma, Yang Saing (eds) (2007). Democratizing water governance in the Mekong. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Mekong Press. Lohmann, Larry (1998). Mekong dams in the drama of development. Watershed 3(3), pp. 50-60. Middleton, Carl and Lee, Gary (2006). Mekong Water Assistance Strategy: Justifying large water infrastructure with transboundary impacts. Watershed Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 11-19. Molle, Franois (2005). Irrigation and water policies in the Mekong region: Current discourses and practice. IWMI Research Report No. 95, International Water Management Institute; Colombo, Sri Lanka. Molle, F.; Foran, T. and Kknen, M. (Eds) (2009). Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance. London: Earthscan. jendal, Joakim (2000). Sharing the good. Modes of managing water resources in the lower Mekong River Basin. Gteborg: Padrigu. Osborne, Milton (2009). The Mekong: River under threat. Lowy Institute Paper 27, The Lowy Institute

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for International Policy, Sydney. Osborne, Milton (2004). River At Risk: the Mekong, the Environment and the Water Politics of China and Southeast Asia. Lowy Institute Paper 02, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney. Osborne, Milton (2000). The strategic significance of the Mekong. Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International & Strategic Affairs Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 429-444. Ratner, Blake D. (2003). The Politics of Regional Governance in the Mekong River Basin. Global Change Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 59-76. Sneddon, Chris and Fox, Coleen A. (2007). Power, Development, and Institutional Change: Participatory Governance in the Lower Mekong Basin. World Development, Vol. 35 No. 12, pp. 2161-2181. Sneddon, Chris and Fox, Coleen A. (2006). Rethinking transboundary waters: A critical hydropolitics of the Mekong basin. Political Geography, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 181-202.

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