The Mekong: A Socio-Legal Approach to River Basin Development by Ben Boer, Philip Hirsh, Fleur Johns, Ben Saul, and Natalia Scurrah (review)

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Abstract

How is law deployed, understood, and (re)produced by actors operating in, around, and far afield from the Mekong river basin (MRB)? How does revealing the plurality of legal and governance structures at work in this area offer greater clarity regarding the sources of, and solutions to, transboundary water conflicts? In The Mekong: A Socio-Legal Approach to River Basin Development, Ben Boer and an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Australian universities respond to these queries in a brilliantly singular voice through an impressively comprehensive charting of regional riparian legal undercurrents.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)149-151
Number of pages3
JournalGlobal Environmental Politics
Volume17
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2017

Keywords

  • Mekong River Basin
  • river development
  • socio-legal approaches
  • environmental law
  • Cambodia
  • Laos
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam

Disciplines

  • Ethics and Political Philosophy

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