Using transboundary environmental security to manage the Mekong River: China and South-East Asian Countries. Issue 5 (3rd September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Grumbine, R. Edward
• Is Part Of: International journal of water resources development. Volume 34:Issue 5(2018)
• Page Start: 792
• Page End: 811
• Publication Date: 2018-09-03
• Subjects: Mekong River -- environmental security -- adaptive governance -- China -- South-East Asia; Water resources development -- Periodicals; Water-supply, Agricultural -- Periodicals; 333.91005
• DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2017.1348938
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0790-0627

Abstract

Abstract: Environmental security, broadly defined as integrated analysis of the social and ecological aspects of environmental problems, is gaining influence as nations begin to expand beyond traditional conceptions of national security. The Mekong River basin provides an instructive example of challenges to the evolution of environmental security in Asia. An overview of six main security stressors – ecosystem degradation, food, energy, water, development, and climate change – reveals the need for transboundary governance reform. China may be in a position to undertake new leadership in the Mekong, which could result in more cooperation, but only if that leadership embraces more deliberative and inclusive behaviour.