This open access book focuses on the Salween River shared by China Myanmar and Thailand
that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports
the livelihoods of over 10 million people and within it there is great socio-economic
cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource
extraction alongside large dam construction conservation and development intervention that
is unfolding within a complex terrain of local national and transnational governance. With a
focus on the contested politics of water and associated resources in the Salween basin this
book offers a collection of empirical case studies that highlights local knowledge and
perspectives. Given the paucity of grounded social science studies in this contested basin
this book provides conceptual insights at the intersection of resource governance development
and politics of knowledge relevant to researchers policy-makers and practitioners at a time
when rapid change is underway. - Fills a significant knowledge gap on a major river in
Southeast Asia with empirical and conceptual contributions - Inter-disciplinary perspective
and by a range of writers including academics policy-makers and civil society researchers
the majority from within Southeast Asia - New policy insights on a river at the cross-roads of
a major political and development transition
