What is it about?
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.
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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. Our ethnographic inquiries also demonstrate that current governance regimes do not account whatsoever for how local populations experience the impacts from hydropower schemes in their daily lives.
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We further convey that achieving resettlement policy objectives towards sustaining, or enhancing, resettled livelihoods requires genuine efforts to probe pre- and post-resettlement livelihoods.
Dr Didier Orange
IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement)
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This page is a summary of: Socialist hydropower governances compared: dams and resettlement as experienced by Dai and Thai societies from the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, Regional Environmental Change, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-017-1170-0.
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