Legal Plurality: An Analysis of Power Interplay in Mekong Hydropower

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 973-988

  Suhardiman, Diana ^a   Giordano, Mark ^b  

^a International Water Management Institute IWMI   (Laos)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hydropower development; Mekong; natural resource management; state laws; territoriality

Indexed keywords

DAM; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATE ROLE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TERRITORIALITY;

LAOS; MEKONG RIVER;

EID: 84905864645     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.925306     Document Type: Article

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