CSDS News: 2019 Year in Review

2019 was a fruitful year for Center for Social Development Studies! We’ve organized 9 (nine) public events and publish 13 (thirteen) publications, and there’s also significant increase in visitors to our website as well as page views, and also an increase in our social media presence.

Thank you for your support this year, and please look forward to our projects in next year too!

Public Events

International Conference

• Political Ecology in Asia: Plural Knowledge and Contested Development in a More-Than-Human World

Research Forum

• Research Forum on Powering up Sustainable Development for Asia: The Future of Global and Regional Investment in Asia’s Energy Sector

Panel Discussion

• Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Transformation in Asia

• The Mekong Drought: Impact and Solutions 

Book Launch

• The Water-Food-Energy Nexus

• Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River

Graduate Students Seminar

• CU Graduate Student Seminar Series 'The Water-Food-Energy Nexus'

• CU Graduate Student Seminar Series 'The Globalization of Environmental Law'

Public Lecture

• Why Money and Disequilibrium Matter to Economics

Publications

Book

• The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice

• Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River

Book Chapter

• Knowledge coproduction for recovering wetlands, agro-ecological farming, and livelihoods in the Mekong Region

• Introduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River

• Hydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River

• From Hydropower Construction to National Park Creation: Changing Pathways of the Nu River

• A State of Knowledge of the Salween River: An Overview of Civil Society Research

Journal Article

• Hybrid Governance of Transboundary Commons: Insights from Southeast Asia

• Ontological politics of hydrosocial territories in the Salween River basin, Myanmar/Burma

Policy Brief

• Shaping the Future of Mekong Regional Architecture: Reinforcing Transboundary Water Governance Through Reciprocity

Opinion Piece

• Mekong Drought Reveals Need for Regional Rules-based Water Cooperation

Report

• The Environment - Contested Knowledge of the Commons in Southeast Asia (CRISEA Working Paper 1)

Teaching Manual

• KNOTS Project | First Section - What is Trandisciplinarity?

• KNOTS Project | Second Section - Methodologies and Research Designs

• KNOTS Project | Third Section - Topics, Themes and Application