FutureDAMs researchers Pon Souvannaseng and David Hulme are convening a panel at the Development Studies Association Conference. The panel will also include papers from FutureDAMS researchers. The conference runs from 19-21st June at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
The panel will take place at 3:30p.m. on Wednesday 19th June in the Christodoulou Meeting Room East, Room 11.
Abstract:
This innovative paper panel, convened by the FutureDAMS consortium, will bring together biophysical and social scientific research to analyse the global phenomenon of hydro-infrastructure expansion and examine how it can be made more environmentally, socially and economically just and sustainable.
Papers:
The legacy of the World Commission on Dams as a science-policy interface
Christopher Schulz (University of Cambridge) & Bill Adams (University of Cambridge)
Desecuritising Himalayan river basins: the contribution of multi-stakeholder dialogues
Douglas Hill (University of Otago)
When a dam failed: political ecology of Xepian-Xenamnoy dam bust in Laos
Soyeun Kim (Sogang University)
Dams, migration, and agricultural productivity: evidence from Ghana
Roshan Adhikari (University of Manchester), Ralitza Dimova (University of Manchester), Timothy Foster (University of Manchester) & Thomas Higginbottom (University of Manchester)
The politics of dams: a framework
Barnaby Dye (University of Manchester) & Tom Lavers (University of Manchester)
Blaming the weather, blaming the people
Vanessa Boanada Fuchs (University of St.Gallen)
Global discourses and local impacts; hydropower governance in Darjeeling Himalayas
Rinchen Lama (University of Reading)
Understanding China’s hydropower development under the institutionalized governance process of policy coevolution – a case study of Nuozhadu mega-dam in China
Yan Zhang (University of Cambridge)