By Dr. Danny Marks
The 2011 flood was the worst in Thailand in decades. Many of the impacts occurred in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. The floods negatively affected small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Read MoreBy Dr. Carl Middleton and Zaw Aung
The focus of this chapter is a water storage dam proposed at Ka Lone Htar village, located outside of the Dawei SEZ itself, intended to supply freshwater to the SEZ’s industries. If built, the dam would fully submerge the village consisting of 182 households, along with several thousand acres of plantations and natural forest. In response to the threat of dispossession and relocation, the Ka Lone Htar community members successfully mobilized and resisted the dam.
Read MoreBy Carl Middleton and Ashley Pritchard
In Southeast Asia, major transboundary rivers such as the Mekong River are central to the food security, livelihoods and culture of millions of people. An increasingly extensive program of large hydropower dam construction is underway in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar to meet domestic electricity demand and for power export to neighboring Thailand, Vietnam and China.
Read MoreBy Carl Middleton
This paper examines how processes of transboundary river resource dispossession by large hydropower dams have been challenged within “arenas of water justice” in Southeast Asia, conceptualized as politicized spaces of water governance in which a process for claiming and/or defending the Right to Water takes place.
Read MoreBy Carl Middleton (International Researcher, CSDS), Jeremy Allouche, Dipak Gyawali and Sarah Allen.
This article maps the rise of the water-energy-food 'nexus' as a research, policy and project agenda in mainland Southeast Asia. We argue that introducing the concept of environmental justice into the nexus, especially where narratives, trade-offs and outcomes are contested, could make better use of how the nexus is framed, understood and acted upon.
Read MoreEdited by Surichai Wun'gaeo
This book is a collection of papers presented at the international symposium on Human Security chaired by Amartya Sen and Sadako Ogata. More than 700 participants attended the symposium held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok on 11th December 2002. The participants came not only from different parts of the world but also diverse background.
Read MoreEdited By Chantana Banpasirichote, Philippe Doneys, Mike Hayes, and Chandan Sengupta
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Read MoreBy Naruemon Thabchumpon
This volume is the compilation of papers presented at an international conference on “Critical Connections: Human Rights, Human Development, and Human Security,” which constituted the 4th International Conference on Human Rights and Human Development.
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This book is a collection of papers presented at the international symposium Rural Livelihoods and Human Insecurities in Globalizing Asian Economies organized by the Asian Rural Sociological Association and the Center for Social Development studies, Chulalongkorn University on July 28-29, 2006 at Chulalongkorn University.
Read MoreEdited by Surichai Wun'gaeo
This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference of Human Security Now: Strengthening Policy Networks in Southeast Asia organized by the advisory Board on Human Security and Centre for Social Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University on March 4-5, 2004 at Chulalongkorn University.
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