Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Global Dam-Building Routledge Explorations in Development Studies Series

In recent years, both Chinese overseas investment and hydropower development have been topics of increasing interest and research, with Chinese actors acting as financiers, developers, builders and sub-contractors.

Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia explores the governance and socio-economic implications of large Chinese dams? development in low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa and asks how these big infrastructure projects promote sustainable local and national development in the recipient countries. The book first discusses general aspects of Chinese involvement in hydropower development in Africa and Asia, looking at political and economic aspects, before presenting selected case studies from large dams built and financed by Chinese actors in Asia and Africa. Based on these results, the book further makes recommendations on how to improve the planning, implementation and governance of large dams for sustainable global dam-building.

This volume is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and scholars in the areas of Development, Environmental Studies, Politics and Economics.

1. China’s hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Implications for resource access and development Giuseppina Siciliano and Frauke Urban
2. Rewards and risks of Chinese hydropower in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Stew Motta and Nathanial Matthews
3. China’s investment in African Hydropower: How to govern the water-energy-nexus? Evidence from the Bui Dam in Ghana Oliver Hensengerth
4. Benchmarking the environmental and social management policies and practices of Chinese overseas dam builders Ying Qiu, Grace Mang and Peter Bosshard
5. The political ecology of rising China: Case study of Chinese hydropower dams in Africa and Asia May Tan-Mullins, Frauke Urban and Grace Mang
6. The environmental and social governance of the Bui Dam project in Ghana Paul W. K. Yankson, Kwadwo Owusu and Alex B. Asiedu
7. The environmental and social governance of the Kamchay dam in Cambodia Giuseppina Siciliano, Frauke Urban, May Tan-Mullins, Lonn Pichdara and Sour Kim
8. Process and project failures in dam-building in Nigeria: The case of Zamfara Hydropower Dam Felix Olorunfemi and Andrew Onwuemele
9. Chinese dam-building, renewable energy and socioecological change in East Malaysia Fadzilah Majid Cooke, Gusni Saat, Frauke Urban and Giuseppina Siciliano
10. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building Frauke Urban and Giuseppina Siciliano

Giuseppina Siciliano is a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London, UK.

Frauke Urban is a Reader at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London, UK.