A5006074354- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Cambodian History and Society
- Water resources management and optimization
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Climate change and permafrost
- History of Science and Medicine
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Quality and Management Systems
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Dartmouth College
2008-2022
Dartmouth Hospital
2012-2020
Abstract The prolonged history of industrialization, flood control, and hydropower production has led to the construction 80,000 dams across U.S. generating significant hydrologic, ecological, social adjustments. With increased ecological attention on re-establishing riverine connectivity, dam removal is becoming an important part large-scale river restoration nationally, especially in New England, due its early European settlement waterpower-based industry. To capture broader dimensions...
Publication of the World Commissions on Dams (WCD) final report in November 2000 prompted a series divergent responses. The global anti-dam movement applauded report's call for fastidious screening large dam projects and increased levels transparency participation dam-related decisions, while industry argued document was irrevocably biased against dams. Several campaigns specific localities almost immediately employed WCD recommendations as means arguing contentious projects. This article...
The Mekong River Basin of mainland Southeast Asia is confronting a series intertwined social, political, and biophysical crises. ongoing construction major hydroelectric dams on the river’s main channel tributary systems—particularly in basin’s lower more populated reaches—is leading to significant socioecological changes. Multiple scientific studies have suggested that proceeding with planned dam will disrupt region’s incredibly productive fisheries threaten livelihoods millions basin...
Two U.S.-based geographers outline three dimensions (geopolitical, economical, and biophysical) used to define the basin of Mekong River as a region, which reveal multi-scalar water governance policies discourses that lie at core current challenges tensions within basin. Drawing on their extensive knowledge fieldwork, authors demonstrate processes integral framing region economic integration international cooperation (water resource development through construction large dams) conflict...
This paper examines the political economy of freshwater, inland fisheries in Mekong River basin, which are among most productive and diverse world. Yet remarkably livelihoods rural people this production supports, increasingly confronting a series threats related to hydropower development other socio‐ecological processes. These turn driven by long‐standing efforts transform basin – shared China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia Vietnam through water resource into more vigorous source...
Dam removal in the United States is an increasingly attractive option for advocates of river restoration. We argue that dam New England (United States) a useful lens examining state actors' capabilities to govern environmental processes. Our analytical framework builds off and integrates strategic-relational approaches (SRAs) power those more concerned with "peopling" through agents' everyday encounters civil society. The complex suite issues—ranging from safety benefits free-flowing rivers...