| Description |
1 online resource (38 pages) : illustrations, color map |
| Series |
Letters from the Mekong |
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Letters from the Mekong
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| Contents |
Introduction. -- Background. -- Xayaburi and Don Sahong Dam projects site visits and findings. -- Emerging need for a new narrative. -- The China factor. -- Recommendations. -- Conclusion. -- About and acknowledgements |
| Summary |
This issue brief examines the current status of mitigation efforts at Laos' Xayaburi and Don Sahong dam projects and the relevance of the existing narrative surrounding hydropower development on the river's mainstream. Based on extensive research on the status and expected impacts of these projects, the authors of this brief have concluded that the current narrative of inevitability surrounding the future of the Mekong is increasingly at odds with what is in fact a very fluid situation. Instead of being the first two of up to nine or eleven mainstream 'dominos' to fall, these commercial-opportunity projects are likely to face significantly increasing political and financial risks and uncertainties |
| Notes |
"October 2015"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (Stimson, viewed January 22, 2016) |
| Subject |
Dams -- Environmental aspects -- Mekong River
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Laos
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Energy development -- Laos
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Dams -- Environmental aspects.
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Energy development.
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Hydroelectric power plants.
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Laos.
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Mekong River.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weatherby, Courtney, author
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Henry L. Stimson Center, publisher.
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