Water in Mainland Southeast Asia

Conference Papers:

Reflections on the notion of the « riverine civilization » and on the History of the Mekong delta seen through some aspects of the settlement of the Village of Sóc SÖn (1920-1945) Pascal Bourdeaux, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sorbonne Fellow, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (Hanoi). Affiliated member, History and civilisations in Peninsular Indochina Center (EPHE-EFEO Hanoi) pascalbourdeaux@yahoo.fr

 

Society and Culture in a Village of Central Cambodia – a search for sustainable agricultural development Navuth Chay, Doctoral candidate, Development Anthropology Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Tokyo, Japan chaynavuth@yahoo.com

 

Local Knowledge of Management and Utilization of Wetland Area in Urban: A Case Study of Oxbow Lake of Urban Communities between Ubon Ratchathani and Warin Chamrab Municipality, Ubon Ratchathani Province Sommai Chinnak, Mekong Sub-region Social Research Center (MSSRC) Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand. schinnak@hotmail.com

 

Up and down Burma’s Irrawaddy River: a seventeenth century Dutch travelogue Wil Dijk, Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden, Netherlands wil.dijk@compaqnet.nl

 

The Water Management System of Angkor: the theoretical implications of new evidence Roland Fletcher, Associate Professor, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Sydney Director: Greater Angkor Project and Living with Heritage Project (Angkor – Siem Reap program) roland.fletcher@arts.usyd.edu.au

 

The Water Transport Network between Yunnan and Mainland Southeast Asia: A Study of Gms Water Transport Network Construction HE Shengda, Vice President, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Kunming, China. shengdayn@yahoo.com.cn

 

Where water equals life – analysing water-livelihoods interconnections in the Mekong Floodplain of Cambodia Marko Keskinen, PhD candidate, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland keskinen@iki.fi

 

Water Management Issues in Singapore Poh Onn LEE, PhD Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore polee@iseas.edu.sg

 

Impacts of using heavy polluted wastewater for irrigation on rice production and environment in the Nhue and Day River System (Vietnam) Trung Dung Nguyen, Hanoi Water Resources University (HWRU), Hanoi, Vietnam dzungnguyen-hwru@abacho.de

 

Creation of a Multi-Sectoral Partnership in Watershed Management: Philippine Experience Paulo Pasicolan, Professor in Social Forestry and Environmental Science, Community and Institutional Development Expert, Isabela State University Cabagan, Isabela, Philippines paulopasicolan@yahoo.com

 

Interactive visualization tools in the management of waterways and river basins in mainland SE Asia Alan Potkin, Specialist in International Development, environmental assessment and training, and conservation-related digital imaging, design and publishing. alan@potkin.com

 

Multiple Mekongs: Changing Spatial and Temporal Visions Brian Shaw (with Nancy Hudson-Rodd), Senior Lecturer, Human Geography University of Western Australia, Crawley bjshaw@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

 

Urban water pollution, communities and the State in Southeast Asia Donovan Stuart Storey, Senior Lecturer & Programme Coordinator Development Studies, School of People, Environment & Planning, Massey University, New Zealand D.Storey@massey.ac.nz

 

Of Tidal Flats and Inland Flooding: Mainland Southeast Asian River Deltas. An Essay in Comparative Historical Human Geography Barend Jan Terwiel, Chair for Languages and Cultures of Thailand and Laos Asien Afrika Institut, Universität Hamburg baasterwiel@hotmail.com

 

Water Resources Management in Viet Nam Truong thi Quynh Trang, Development and Environmental Expert, Rural Development Centre (RDC), National Institute for Agricultural Planning and Projection (NIAPP) Hanoi, Vietnam trangtq72@yahoo.com

 

The following papers are not available for download – you may contact the authors directly:

Water History in the Mekong Delta and Beyond: Sources and Approaches Relevant to Multi-Disciplinary Research on Historic Water Environments in Southeast Asia David A. Biggs, Assistant Professor, History Department University of California – Riverside david.biggs@ucr.edu

 

Fictitious Strait and Imagined Island: “Singapura in the late 16th and early 17th century Peter Borschberg, Associate Professor of History National University of Singapore hispb@nus.edu.sg

 

Dynamics of Water Tenure in Black Thai Communities in Northern Vietnam Joerg Hager, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany and Vietnamese-German Centre, Technical University Hanoi, Vietnam wunkel@gmx.net

 

Waterways of the Irrawaddy Delta Paul Kratoska, National University of Singapore Singapore University Press, Singapore hispaulk@nus.edu.sg

 

Multiple Mekongs: Changing Spatial and Temporal Visions Nancy Hudson-Rodd (with Brian Shaw), Cultural Research Commission, International Geographic Union (IGU Edith Cowan University, Western Australia n. hudson_rodd@ecu.edu.au

 

The hydrography of mainland Southeast Asia in early modern Portuguese textual and cartographic sources Rui Loureiro, Centro de Hitória de Além-Mar (CHAM) Lisbon, Portugal rmloureiro@netvisao.pt

 

Environmental Management in the Angkor region: Innovative environmental engineering consultancy for the development industry, government agencies, and private individuals Terry Lustig, Member of the Greater Angkor Project terry@environmentalmanagement.com.au

 

The role of rivers in the interaction between the uplands and the lowlands of Central Vietnam Tran Ky Phuong, Independent Scholar, Vietnam kychi@dng.vnn.vn

 

The water management system of Angkor: New evidence on an old story Christophe Pottier, Ecole Francaise d’Extrême-Orient – EFEO, Siem Reap, Cambodia.| cpottier@ext.jussieu.fr

 

Land use change and soil erosion in northern Lao PDR Oloth Sengtaheuanghoung, Working with the ASIALAND Network on the management of sloping land for sustainable Agriculture. oloth_s@hotmail.com

 

The Social and Environmental Impacts of the Hua Na Dam and Khong-Chi-Mun Project: The Necessity for More Research and Public Participation Kerry Lee Shannon, Postgraduate Program in Environmental Science, Mahasarakham University, Thailand shannonk7@gmail.com