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Capitalizing on Compensation: Hydropower Resettlement and the Commodification and Decommodification of Nature–Society Relations in Southern Laos 2016

compensation programs for Hydropower dam resettlement have far-reaching effects, including restructuring nature–society relations in support of capital accumulation. Although critical scholarship has shown the structural limitations of compensation programs for reducing poverty after resettlement, here we draw on the specific case of the Xepian - Xenamnoy hydroelectric dam project in the Xekong River Basin in southern Laos to explorethe transformation of nature

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Document type Advocacy and promotional materials
Language of document
  • English
Topics Types of state-protected areas
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
Province(s)
  • Champasak
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ISSN: 2469-4452 (Print) 2469-4460 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raag21
Author (corporate) W. Nathan Green & Ian G. Baird
Publication place Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Publisher Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Publication date 2016
Pagination 22
Date uploaded May 16, 2018, 08:57 (UTC)
Date modified July 16, 2018, 02:33 (UTC)