This is a past event
Part of the Global Economic Governance programme at University College, Oxford.
The politics of water is highly charged and an issue of increasing geopolitical significance. In recent years the Mekong River Basin has re-emerged as a region of global importance. The rapid infrastructure-led integration of a region some call “Asia’s last frontier” has created tensions between and among China and its southern neighbors. Extensive regional development, coupled with the effects of climatic change and increased competition for access to the rich resources of the once war-torn region, have given rise to a host of serious threats to the basin’s diverse ecology. Among these is the expanding hydropower industry, where extensive hydro-development has come to endanger not only the social and ecological security of local riparian communities, but also regional stability writ large. This panel will bring together experts to examine the geopolitics of water in the Mekong River Basin and, drawing from this example, debate the ways in which the water resources should be governed collectively and ‘democratically’ in the public interest.
A panel discussion with:
Dustin Garrick, James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship
David Grey, Visiting Professor of Water Policy, Oxford, formerly Senior Water Advisor, World Bank
Pichamon May Yeophantong, Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow, GEG
More details here.
- Speaker
- Various (see below)
- Hosted by
- University College, Oxford
- Venue
- Swire Seminar Room, 12 Merton Street, Oxford
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