Journal article
Making governance "Good": The production of scale in the environmental impact assessment and governance of the salween river
V Lamb
Conservation and Society | WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS | Published : 2014
Abstract
Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are generally considered an important component of formal decision-making processes about development, serving to ensure that a project's environmental impacts are considered in decisions about whether and how it will proceed. Scale is an important part of the narrative built into the assessment. Building on a rich literature at the intersection of human geography and political ecology, I focus on the way that scale is remade through the environmental impact assessment process for the Hatgyi hydroelectric dam proposed on the Salween River. Proposed near the stretch of the river that makes up the Thai-Burma border, the scales of governance for this cros..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author would like to express appreciation to all the participants of the "Ecologies on the Edge" workshop at York University for the thought provoking discussion and comments, and for additional comments on the paper by Peter Vandergeest and Shubhra Gururani. I would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. The research was supported by awards from York University, including the Vivienne A. Poy and the Martin Cohnstaedt Graduate Research Awards. I also acknowledge the feedback received on an earlier draft of this paper from graduate student discussion group at Roskilde's International Development Studies Program where the author was based for 3 months in 2012. I am most grateful to the residents, activists, scientists, and government officials who took the time speak with me about the Salween.