Search Results - "Baird, Ian G."
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The Impacts of Hydropower Dams in the Mekong River Basin: A Review
Published in Water (Basel) (01-02-2021)“…The Mekong River, well known for its aquatic biodiversity, is important to the social, physical, and economic health of millions living in China, Myanmar,…”
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Hydropower Dam Development and Fish Biodiversity in the Mekong River Basin: A Review
Published in Water (Basel) (01-04-2023)“…Over the last few decades, considerable concern has been expressed about the threat of Mekong River Basin hydropower dams to a range of important freshwater…”
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Unsettling Experiences: Internal Resettlement and International Aid Agencies in Laos
Published in Development and change (01-09-2007)“…ABSTRACT A number of programmes and policies in Laos are promoting the internal resettlement of mostly indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to…”
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Capitalizing on Compensation: Hydropower Resettlement and the Commodification and Decommodification of Nature-Society Relations in Southern Laos
Published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers (01-07-2016)“…Compensation programs for hydropower dam resettlement have far-reaching effects, including restructuring nature-society relations in support of capital…”
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Thinking about Indigeneity with Respect to Time and Space: Reflections from Southeast Asia
Published in Espace populations sociétés (01-01-2020)“…Most people take it for granted that it is relatively easy to determine who is Indigenous and who is not. Indeed, in the Americas and Oceania, where a lot of…”
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Resistance and Contingent Contestations to Large-Scale Land Concessions in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia
Published in Land (Basel) (01-03-2017)“…Over the last decade, there have been considerable concerns raised regarding the social and environmental impacts of large-scale land concessions for…”
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The Emergence of an Environmentally Conscious and Buddhism-Friendly Marginalized Hmong Religious Sect along the Laos-Thailand Border
Published in Asian ethnology (22-09-2020)“…The ethnic Hmong people in Laos and Thailand are frequently—and often unfairly—stereotyped as destructive hunters of wildlife, and as the destroyers of forests…”
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How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia
Published in Land (Basel) (01-06-2015)“…Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of large-scale economic land concessions for plantations in…”
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Political memories of conflict, economic land concessions, and political landscapes in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Published in Geoforum (01-03-2014)“…•This paper considers “political memories” in relation to Powers of Exclusion.•The concept of political memories fits well with legitimation.•Political…”
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Hmollywood Movies: 1.5-Generation Hmong Americans and Transnational Film Production in Thailand
Published in Sojourn (Singapore) (01-07-2019)“…Hundreds of low-budget Hmong language films—comedies, action films, horror films, historical fiction movies, documentaries and others—have been produced for…”
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Opening the gates of the Pak Mun dam: Fish migrations, domestic water supply, irrigation projects and politics
Published in Water alternatives (01-02-2020)“…The Pak Mun Dam on the Mun River in Ubon Ratchathani Province in northeastern Thailand has long been one of the most controversial hydropower projects in…”
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Dolphin-Safe Tuna from California to Thailand: Localisms in Environmental Certification of Global Commodity Networks
Published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers (01-03-2011)“…This article analyzes the historical development of the United States-based dolphin-safe tuna campaign and associated labeling scheme in the early 1990s as a…”
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Going organic: Challenges for government-supported organic rice promotion and certification nationalism in Thailand
Published in World development (01-01-2024)“…•There is increased interest in organic rice cultivation and consumption in Thailand.•A political ecology framework is appropriate for investigating organic…”
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Introduction to the Special Forum: Agrarian Change in Zomia: Social, Religious, and Cosmological Dimensions of Swidden Cultivation and Upland Livelihoods in the Consolidation of the “Modern” State
Published in Asian ethnology (22-09-2020)“…Using evidence from four ethnographically rich case studies of people who conduct shifting agriculture and swidden cultivation in the borderlands of South,…”
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Large-Scale Land Concessions, Migration, and Land Use: The Paradox of Industrial Estates in the Red River Delta of Vietnam and Rubber Plantations of Northeast Cambodia
Published in Land (Basel) (01-06-2018)“…This study investigated the implications of large-scale land concessions in the Red River Delta, Vietnam, and Northeast Cambodia with regard to urban and…”
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Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia
Published in The Journal of peasant studies (23-02-2024)“…Indigenous Community Land Titles (ICLTs) in Cambodia promised to protect Indigenous land tenure and rotational swidden cultivation. However, the proliferation…”
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Catastrophic and slow violence: thinking about the impacts of the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam in southern Laos
Published in The Journal of peasant studies (19-09-2021)“…On 23 July 2018, up to five million cubic meters of water plummeted from the reservoir of the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam, causing the biggest catastrophic event…”
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Problems for the plantations: Challenges for large‐scale land concessions in Laos and Cambodia
Published in Journal of agrarian change (01-07-2020)“…Large‐scale plantation land concessions are causing an array of serious social and environmental impacts in Southeast Asia as well as in other parts of the…”
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Political violence, migration, lack of citizenship, and agrobiodiversity loss in the borderlands of Thailand and Laos
Published in Geoforum (01-01-2022)“…•Agrobiodiversity loss can occur in various ways.•Political violence often indirectly affects agrobiodiversity.•Agrobiodiversity loss can occur due to policies…”
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Dams and disease triggers on the lower Mekong river
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-06-2013)“… The eggs produced by the adults are discharged with bile fluid into the intestine, and out of the body with the feces.\n In areas where infection from…”
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