Volatile Rivers and the Infrastructure Politics in the Mekong Region

该项目的重点是重新利用大型水利基础设施以服务于气候目标的挑战，旨在促进对气候变化时期河流，基础设施和电力关系不断变化的理解。它希望为湄公河地区内外的水资源和气候变化治理提供新的见解。在政治生态和基础设施研究之间架起桥梁，计划成果包括推进河流工程关键研究的概念创新。该项目将使湄公河和澳大利亚的决策者、从业人员和倡导团体受益，以改善干预措施，加强脆弱的河流社区的应对战略。

This project focusses on the challenge of repurposing large-scale hydraulic infrastructures to serve climate objectives, and aims to advance understanding of changing entanglements of rivers, infrastructure, and power relations in a time of climate change. It expects to contribute novel insights into water and climate change governance within and beyond the Mekong Region. Bridging political-ecology and infrastructure studies, planned outcomes include conceptual innovations that advance critical studies on river engineering. The project should benefit policy-makers, practitioners and advocacy groups in the Mekong and in Australia seeking to improve interventions and strengthen the coping strategies of vulnerable riverine communities.