Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River

• 1.Introduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River.- 2.Salween: What’s in a Name?.- 3.Hydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River.- 4.From Hydropower Construction to National Park Creation: Changing Pathways of the Nu River.- 5.Rites, Rights and Water Justice in Karen State: A Case Study of Community-based Water Governance and the Hatgyi Dam.- 6.Contested Water Governance in Myanmar/Burma: Politics, the Peace Negotiations and the Production of Scale.- 7.A State of Knowledge of the Salween River: An Overview of Civil Society Research.- 8.“We Need One Natural River for the Next Genera-tion”: Intersectional Feminism and the Nujiang Dams Campaign in China.- 9.Local Context, National Law: The Rights of Karen People on the Salween River in Thailand.- 10.An Ethnobotanical Survey in Shan State, Myanmar: Where Thanlwin Biodiversity, Health, and Deforestation Meet.- 11.Not Only Anti-dam: Simplistic Rendering of Complex Salween Communities in their Negotiation for Development in Thailand.- 12.Powers of Access: Impacts on Resource Users and Researchers in Myanmar’s Shan State.- 13.Fisheries and Socio-economic Change in the Thanlwin River Estuary in Mon and Kayin State, Myanmar.- 14.The Impact of Land cover changes on socio-economic conditions in Bawlakhe District, Kayah State.- 15.Local Knowledge and Rangeland Protection on the Tibetan Plateau: Lessons for Conservation and Co-management of the Upper Nu-Salween and Yellow River Watersheds.- 16.Future Trajectories: Five Short Concluding Reflections.

“Knowing the Salween River is a welcome addition to the research on transboundary water conflicts, environmental politics, and Southeast Asia resource issues. … it is a clearly written and accessible book. For all of us, it is an important opportunity to educate ourselves about the challenges facing communities in the basin, and to learn about their efforts to create just and sustainable futures.” (Coleen Fox, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 41, 2020)