Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas

Wil de Jong is a Professor at the Centre for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.Denyse Snelder is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, The NetherlandsNoboru Ishikawa is an Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.

• PrefaceList of Contributors1. Transnational Natural Resource Governance in Border Regions2. Social, Spatial, and Sectoral Boundaries in Transboundary Conservation of Central African Forests3. State-Making and Transnationalism: Transboundary Flows in a Borderland of Western Borneo4. A Resource-Hungry Malaysia, Transnational Mobile Peoples and the Absence of the State: A Lethal Combination for Natural Resources in Indonesia's Borderlands? 5. Territorialization, Regionalism and Natural Resource Management in the Peruvian Amazon6. Territorialization Re-examined: Transborder Marine Resources Exploitation in Southeast Asia and Australia7. Circumventing the Sea Cucumber War: Self-Regulation of Sea Cucumber Fisheries in Rishiri Island, Japan8. Beyond Borders: Scaling-Up Marine Turtle Conservation Through Trans-National Arrangements 9. Adapting to Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate: The Role of Institutions in Transboundary Settings10. Fighting Floods or Living with Floods? Streamlining Multiple Strategies of Flood Risk Management in Transborder River Basins11. Greater Mekong Subregion Cooperation in Hydropower Development and Power Interconnection: Potentials, Challenges and ProgressesIndex

'The present book should be studied by politicians, decision-makers in general and biotechnicians in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Transborder affairs historically often provoked conflict and war. This should be avoided by harmonizing our notions, and this book shows the way.' Dr. Roelof A.A. Oldeman, emeritus professor of Silviculture & Forest Ecology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands'Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this volume brings together ten meticulously-analyzed and well-written case studies to examine the complexities of natural resource governance along borders both terrestrial and aquatic. Examples from four continents and several seas show vividly that apparently modern crises often have deep historical roots and seemingly simple disputes are socially and political multi-layered. This book is not only intellectually compelling, but also important in the most practical sense.' Christine Padoch, Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator, Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden