Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond

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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Southwest China’s hydropower expansion and why it matters there and beyond (Jean-François Rousseau, Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla).- Chapter 2. The water-energy nexus of Southwest China’s rapid hydropower development: Challenges and trade-offs in the interaction between hydropower generation and utilisation (Thomas Hennig, Darrin Magee).- Chapter 3.  Leaving the Three Gorges after resettlement: Who left, why did they leave, and where did they go? (Brooke Wilmsen, Andrew van Hulten, Yuefang Duan).- Chapter 4. Contestation over moral economy: Distant resettlement from the Three Gorges area to the Pearl River Delta (Bettina Gransow) etc.