Is there a crisis of public knowledge? Learn more in this highly readable and informative report from the conference on Confronting Unequal Worlds of Development. The conference “Confronting Unequal Worlds of Development: Crisis of Public Knowledge, and the Transnational Social Science Agenda” was held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 25-26 [...]
World Water Day lasts a week in Laos. This year the Lao Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment organized events including art competitions, writing songs, a golf tournament and a Science Seminar. The Challenge Program on Water and Food helped sponsor the Science Seminar through an Opportunity Fund grant. The [...]
CPWF-Mekong has now been working in the Mekong for almost four years. What have we achieved. Besides implementing a wide variety of projects, below are the emerging results from the program. By supporting dialogues surrounding the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocols (HSAP), these are now firmly established in the Mekong as one facet of the discussion [...]
The goal of this mini-blog series is to document the participatory process of a community modelling project taking place in the Mekong. Funded through a CPWF Research into Use grant, the project seeks to increase the diversity of stakeholders involved in the management of water resources in the Nam Theun [...]
The goal of this mini-blog series is to document the participatory process of a community modelling project taking place in the Mekong. Funded through a CPWF Research into Use grant, the project seeks to increase the diversity of stakeholders involved in the management of water resources in the Nam Theun [...]
The proceedings from the Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy are now available here. The forum was held from November 13-14 in Hanoi. Summaries of the 15 sessions can be found in the proceedings. Read the full story…
The Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy, was held from November 13-14 in Hanoi. There were 15 sessions and two keynote speakers. Sessions were centered around four main themes: valuing multiple uses for dams; options for producing food and sustaining livelihoods around dams; managing dam cascades; and governing for water, food, and [...]
By Alain Vidal and Kim Geheb (CPWF-Mekong basin leader) November 7 will probably be remembered for President Obama’s second term success. Nobody that we are aware of remembered that it was also the day, 95 years ago, that the Bolsheviks toppled Czar Nicholas II of Russia. This singular day in [...]
CPWF-Mekong proud to announce the launch of two new projects “The thaibaan research methodology we want to use – called ‘sao ban‘ in Laotian – has rarely been used here. We look forward to learning from our Vietnamese and Cambodian partners who have a great experience with this kind of [...]
Polarized debates only further entrench positions. It’s time for dialog on acceptable tradeoffs. Dams are all about tradeoffs. (…) Read the full story…
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