Overview
- Examines the expansion of Southwest China’s hydropower capacity and its impacts beyond China, bringing together novel insights into the domestic origins and international implications of Chinese hydropower development
- Probes various compromises and trade-offs emerging from the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China
- Offers a multidisciplinary view on the political economy of hydropower in Southwest China scrutinizing multiple policy fields at various scales, ranging from infrastructure development to energy provision and from development finance to resettlement and foreign relations
- Brings together emerging and established scholars whose multidisciplinary research addresses the politics, livelihoods, and transnational dimensions of hydropower expansion in Southwest China
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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About this book
This book conceptualises the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China as a socio-political and transnational project transcending the construction of dams. Chapters in this volume are organised around three sections spanning hydropower and resettlement governance, rural livelihoods, and international relations connected to China’s hydropower expansion. Dam projects of various scales are analysed as infrastructure projects that shape peoples’ livelihoods, the environment, and China’s relations with Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Hydropower and Resettlement Governance
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Dams and Rural Livelihoods
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Transnational Matters
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jean-François Rousseau is Assistant Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on nature-society relations and addresses the relationships between agrarian change, infrastructure development, and ethnic minority livelihood diversification in Southwest China.
Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chinese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include regional development, central-local relations, and energy and resource governance with a focus on China. She is the author of the book, Dams, Migration and Authoritarianism in China: The Local State in Yunnan, published by Routledge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond
Editors: Jean-François Rousseau, Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59361-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59360-5Published: 16 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59363-6Published: 16 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59361-2Published: 15 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 298
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Political Economy, Asian Politics, Development Studies