Rethinking transboundary waters: A critical hydropolitics of the Mekong basin
Rethinking transboundary waters: A critical hydropolitics of the Mekong basin
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DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.11.002
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发表时间：
2006-02
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
C. Sneddon;Coleen A. Fox
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作者：
C. Sneddon;Coleen A. Fox
在国家管辖范围内和国际层面上，理解跨界河流流域的地理和政治复杂性的努力必须包括重要的跨学科观点。在本文中，我们重点关注跨界水冲突与合作的不发达方面，例如，跨界体制安排如何改变对河流流域的生态理解;跨界流域的多个行为体如何构建地理尺度;治理和管理机构如何代表和行使对水的控制。我们提出的概念，作为一种解释这些过程的关键水文政治。我们借鉴了一个案例研究的冲突和内的跨界沃茨的湄公河流域来说明这种方法。我们的目标是补充和扩大目前有关跨界沃茨的研究和政策辩论。
Efforts to understand the geographical and political complexities of transboundary river basins—both within national jurisdictions and at international levels—must embrace critical interdisciplinary perspectives. In this paper, we focus attention on underdeveloped aspects of transboundary water conflicts and cooperation—e.g., how ecological understandings of river basins are transformed within transboundary institutional arrangements; the way multiple actors in transboundary basins construct geographical scales; and how control over water is represented and exercised within governance and management institutions. We advance the notion of critical hydropolitics as a way of explicating these processes. We draw on a case study of conflict over and within the transboundary waters of the Mekong River basin to illustrate this approach. Our aim is to complement and extend ongoing research and policy debates concerning transboundary waters.