Governing transboundary commons in Southeast Asia

Miller, Michelle Ann; Rigg, Jonathan; Taylor, David

doi:10.1111/apv.12285

Cited by 4 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The co‐evolving effects of climate change and infrastructure development indicate that transboundary water challenges associated with these compounding processes have become a ‘wicked’ (i.e. nearly intractable) problem that does not exist within jurisdictions, nations but extends across geographical borders (Miller, 2020; Miller et al, 2020). Here, a question arises as to how such transboundary water complexities could be fully understood and addressed at varying scales of governance (Milman et al, 2020; Sneddon & Fox, 2006), especially at the local scale.…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit

Tran

Tortajada

2022

Env Pol Gov

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The operations of large hydropower dams in the Mekong basin, while posing detrimental transboundary effects downstream, are not fully recognised in Vietnamese government policies, especially at the regional scale. This study adopts the concept of institutional fit to investigate policy gaps in addressing the transboundary water challenges characterised by falling floodwater flows and accelerating saltwater intrusion in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Based on interviews with key stakeholders (including central and provincial government officials, environmental experts, and academics) as well as desk reviews of policy documents, we argue that, while the transboundary water repercussions are increasingly evident on the ground, they are not adequately factored in water policies and strategic development planning for the delta. This study suggests that failure to incorporate co-evolving effects of climate change and Mekongwide hydropower dynamics into local water governance will cause institutional constraints to tackle water stressors (too much or too little water) over the long term.Achieving institutional fit will therefore help align the national water policy framework with local development strategies and reduce policy-practice gaps at the delta scale.To this end, two key aspects need to be considered: first, how, and in which forms, innovative management decisions and water governance policies can be effectively undertaken towards securing the living delta and its resilience to present and future environmental risks; and second, how reframed water policy and development agendas can holistically capture and resolve the transboundary hydrological problems, while leveraging the Vietnamese government's policy engagement at higher levels to address related impacts.

show abstract

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit

Tran

Tortajada

2022

Env Pol Gov

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Commons are environmental goods that traverse jurisdictions and property regimes within and between nation‐states. Miller, Rigg, and Taylor (2020) identify two types of transboundary commons, mobile commons and in‐situ commons. Mobile resources such as air, water, and certain migratory species, are classic examples of nature confounding territory: they move across public, private, and societal governance regimes and thus cannot be contained within demarcated spaces and bounded regulatory bodies.…”

Section: Transboundary Governance Around Atmospheric Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While transnational governance limits the study of cross‐border relations for governing common‐pool resources to national or supranational scales of analysis, transboundary environmental governance encompasses resource connections that traverse borders at all scales of governance (Miller, 2021). While transnational commons focuses on the international (inter‐state) dimensions of dispersed and overlapping resource regimes (Miller, Rigg, & Taylor, 2020), transboundary commons also describe the networked political relationships, revenue streams, labour mobilities, and environmental flows that move across subnational boundaries (Miller, Middleton, et al, 2020). In short, transboundary environmental networks and agreements are those that are both horizontally (multi‐scalar, across borders within and between countries) and vertically (multi‐sector, to connect grassroots actors with higher levels of government, NGOs, donors, and corporations) enacted (Miller, 2020).…”

Section: Transboundary Governance Around Atmospheric Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emergent geographies of chronic air pollution governance in Southeast Asia: Transboundary publics in Singapore

Varkkey

2022

Env Pol Gov

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Haze is a product of in‐situ biomass fires that becomes mobile as it moves across state boundaries in Southeast Asia. The literature on the governance of transboundary air commons has largely been fixed at the national or supranational scalar of reference. Hence, successes and failures tend to be evaluated based on policy and diplomatic (non)progress. This paper contributes to recent literature that argues that haze should be treated as a challenge and opportunity for transboundary governance and not merely transnational governance. Transboundary governance does not restrict the study of cross‐border relations to national scales of analysis but encompasses resource connections that traverse borders at all scales of governance. This paper focuses on Singapore, a state where biomass fires do not occur but where the effects of haze are acutely felt. Among ASEAN member states, Singapore has been viewed as a particularly active player in region‐wide governance on haze. However, the role of non‐state environmental stewardship initiatives in pathfinding, nudging, and signalling state, corporate and regional actors towards emergent transboundary governance arrangements have been underplayed. By focusing on the efforts of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), Singapore Environment Council (SEC), and People's Movement to Stop Haze (PM Haze), this paper explores how transboundary publics can fill policy gaps in transnational haze governance regimes. As a highly depoliticised city‐state, Singapore's experience serves as a microcosm for ways forward within the broader ASEAN geopolitical culture favouring depoliticised ‘engaged non‐indifference’.

show abstract

Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters from the river‐border environments

Dajani

2024

Area

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper aims to disrupt hegemonic ideas in transboundary water governance literature about rivers and borders being fixed and rigid. I argue that rivers are sites of uneven experiences not only in terms of access and use, but also in the way they are experienced as ‘borders’ by different communities, reflecting wider settler colonial dynamics and legacies. On the Yarmouk Tributary of the Jordan River, the river environments are borderised and territorialised in very unequal ways by nation‐states and through bilateral river basin agreements. Through paying attention to how river‐border environments have been transformed and how they function, this paper explores how the border is experienced and navigated in three border environments on the Yarmouk. This paper complicates the river‐as‐border scholarship by attending to how river borders are environments which are experienced differently by communities living in them through different forms of infrastructural and slow violence. Centring slow violence in this analysis offers a window into unexamined social worlds and experiences, showing how infrastructures on the border become environments and not just banal assemblages of pipes and pumps separate from people and land. It also presents an original contribution to examine transboundary river politics in the Jordan River Basin from the vantage points of the communities that continue to re‐configure ways to forge and mend relations with the river and border environments.

show abstract

Governing transboundary commons in Southeast Asia

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit

Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit

Emergent geographies of chronic air pollution governance in Southeast Asia: Transboundary publics in Singapore

Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters from the river‐border environments

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About