Watershed Politics, Policy, and Participation
This paper examines how citizen activism in Vietnam on the issue of water governance is shaped by the regional context in which it is embedded. It is part of a larger research project that explores stakeholder participation at the local, national and basin level. The Mekong River Commission, headquartered in Vientiane, Laos, is the regional institution that is responsible for governing the river's resources. This paper thus focuses on interactions between local stakeholders in the Mekong delta and the Mekong River Commission as one of the possible pathways to influence water resources management in the region. The effect of linkages between local actors and international NGOs in (re-)shaping state policy has been well documented in the literature on transnational activism. However, the role of regional organizations as sites of political activism has remained largely unexplored. The functional area of water governance is a particularly interesting issue area to examine these transnational dynamics, since coordinated policy adoption by each of the member states in the region is essential to achieving an optimal outcome. Furthermore, the local stakeholders in the Vietnam delta are an interesting test group since they are in the most vulnerable position in the basin as the users farthest downstream. This means that they have little leverage in water-use negotiations, since they are impacted by upstream users but not vice-versa
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2015
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Authors: | Wallace, Jennifer |
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[2015]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Wasserversorgung | Water supply | Gewässerschutz | Water conservation |
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