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The Salween River as a transboundary commons: fragmented collective action, hybrid governance and power

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Title The Salween River as a transboundary commons: fragmented collective action, hybrid governance and power
 
Creator Suhardiman, Diana
Middleton, C.
 
Subject water governance
international waters
collective action
hydropower
dams
river basins
state intervention
institutions
decision making
development projects
international agreements
conflicts
nongovernmental organizations
political aspects
 
Description Viewing the Salween River as a transboundary commons, this paper illustrates how diverse state and non-state actors and institutions in hybrid and multi-scaled networks have influenced water governance in general, and large dam decision-making processes in particular. Putting power relations at the centre of this analysis and drawing on the conceptual lenses of hybrid governance and critical institutionalism, we show the complexity of the fragmented processes through which decisions have been arrived at, and their implications. In the context of highly asymmetrical power relations throughout the basin, and the absence of an intergovernmental agreement to date, we argue that hybrid networks of state and non-state actors could be strategically engaged to connect parallel and fragmented decision-making landscapes with a goal of inclusively institutionalising the transboundary commons and maintaining connected local commons throughout the basin, foregrounding a concern for ecological and social justice.
 
Date 2020-08
2020-08-15T05:12:55Z
2020-08-15T05:12:55Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Suhardiman, Diana; Middleton, C. 2020. The Salween River as a transboundary commons: fragmented collective action, hybrid governance and power. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61(2):301-314. (Special issue: Governing the Transboundary Commons of Southeast Asia) [doi: 10.1111/apv.12284]
1360-7456
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109022
https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12284
H049874
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 301-314
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Asia Pacific Viewpoint