Socialist hydropower governances compared: dams and resettlement as experienced by Dai and Thai societies from the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands
| Autor: | Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, Didier Orange, Nguyen Van Thiet, Jean-François Rousseau |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Ottawa [Ottawa], Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Soils and Fertilizers Research Institute (SFRI), Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), Free University of Berlin (FU), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), International Development Research Center (IDRC), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany), Region Midi-Pyrenees, University of Toulouse 2, Province of Son La, French Embassy in Vietnam, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Vietnamese 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology Modernization theory Sino-Vietnamese borderlands State (polity) Political science Development economics China Livelihoods Hydropower media_common Resettlement Global and Planetary Change Governance business.industry Corporate governance 05 social sciences Ethnic minorities 1. No poverty 021107 urban & regional planning Livelihood [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society 6. Clean water language.human_language Economy language business 050703 geography Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Regional Environmental Change Regional Environmental Change, Springer Verlag, 2017, 17 (8), pp.2409-2419. ⟨10.1007/s10113-017-1170-0⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1436-3798 1436-378X |
| Popis: | International audience; Research on hydropower development has shown that a diversity of social and environmental impacts of dams is distributed unevenly among various state and corporate actors and riparian populations. This article analyses how two neighbouring socialist states, China and Vietnam, govern dam-induced resettlement along their respective sections of the Red River Watershed. Our investigation focuses on resettlement villages created during the construction of the Madushan (China) and Ban Chat (Vietnam) reservoirs and testifies that resettlement policies on both sides of the border serve statist modernization agendas that fail to acknowledge Dai (China) and Thai (Vietnam) ethnic minority livelihoods. While local populations endure the greatest impacts from dam-induced changes in water allocation and the ensuing consequences for land resources, the benefits of hydropower development are first and foremost shared among state-owned and/or state-backed energy companies. These companies reap huge profits from their role as power generators for capitalist production, while also benefiting from state authorities underevaluating resettled communities' livelihood assets. A comparison of the two cases reveals that despite the border that separates China and Vietnam, and despite both states emphasizing different resettlement discourses, governance of dam-induced resettlement is strikingly similar. |
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