Publications

@article{D’Souza2020,
title = {Fishing Livelihoods and Diversifications in the Mekong River Basin in the Context of the Pak Mun Dam, Thailand},
author = {Amabel D’Souza and Brenda Parlee},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187438},
doi = {10.3390/su12187438},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-09-10},
journal = {Sustainability},
volume = {12},
number = {7438},
abstract = {Fishing livelihoods are under stress in many regions of the world, including the lower Mekong river basin. Building on research on the socio-economic impacts of hydroelectric development, this paper explores the spatial dimensions of livelihood diversifications. Research in 2016 and 2017, involving 26 semi-structured interviews in nine upstream, downstream, tributary and relocated villages in the vicinity of the Pak Mun hydroelectric dam, provides insight into how villagers have coped and adapted fishing livelihoods over time. Results are consistent with other research that has detailed the adverse effects of hydroelectric development on fishing livelihoods. Interviewees in the nine communities in the Isan region of Thailand experienced declines in the abundance and diversity of fish valued as food, and engaged in other household economic activities to support their families, including rice farming, marketing of fishing assets and other innovations. Stories of youth leaving communities (rural-urban migration) in search of employment and education were also shared. Although exploratory, our work confronts theories that fishing is a livelihood practice of “last resort”. Narratives suggest that both fishing and diversification to other activities have been both necessary and a choice among villagers with the ultimate aim of offsetting the adverse impacts and associated insecurity created by the dam development.},
keywords = {diversification, fishing livelihoods, hydroelectric development, local ecological knowledge, Pak Mun dam; Makong River basin, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{Runde2020,
title = {Fishers' Knowledge Indicates Extensive Socioecological Impacts Downstream of Proposed Dams in a Tropical River},
author = {Anne Runde and Gustavo Hallwass and Renato A.M. Silvano
},
url = {https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30093-2},
doi = {10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.012},
issn = {2590-3330},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-03-12},
journal = {One Earth},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
abstract = {Brazil's hydroelectricity sector is rapidly expanding, and several dams are planned in Amazonian rivers. The impacts on the fisheries downstream of the dams have largely been overlooked by official impact assessments. Here, we gather fishery baseline data from interviews with 171 fishers in 16 communities along a ∼275-km stretch of the Tapajos River, located downstream of a proposed dam. The results indicate that fishing constitutes a key source of food and income for fishers and their communities and that the impact of the dam on the fisheries will potentially extend much further than the officially recognized affected area. By ignoring the effects of the dams on downstream communities, impact assessments have severely underestimated the number of people who would be affected by the dams. Therefore, a thorough evaluation of downstream fishers needs to be conducted prior to river impoundment and be considered by development plans.},
keywords = {Amazon Basin, fisheries sustainability, fishing sites, food security, hydroelectric development, interviews, local ecological knowledge, small-scale fisheries, socioecological systems, Tapajos River},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{Baird2019b,
title = {Migrating fish and mobile knowledge: situated fishers' knowledge and social networks in the lower Mekong River Basin in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia },
author = {Ian G. Baird and Kanokwan Manorom},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2019.1635343, Mobilities journal link
https://www.trackingchange.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Baird-and-Manorom-2019-Migrating-fish-and-mobile-knowledge.pdf, Tracking Change PDF link},
doi = {10.1080/17450101.2019.1635343},
issn = {1745-011X},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-24},
journal = {Mobilities},
volume = {14},
number = {6},
pages = {762-777},
abstract = {Various terms are used to characterize fishers' knowledge. Here we use situated fishers' knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao fishers living in the Mekong River Basin in northeastern Thailand, southern Laos, and northeastern Cambodia. We consider the mobility of knowledge, humans, and fish, and adopt a theoretical framework based on Actor Network Theory (ANT) and political ecology. Based on fisher interviews, we demonstrate why knowledge transfer related to fish migrations is important. Fishers have various ways of knowing when migratory fish pass certain locations, although those are changing due to borders and technological changes. The paper's main contribution is to move beyond simply investigating human mobilities, and to instead consider the relationships between human, fish and knowledgemobilities, something that ANT is particularly well suited for, due to its focus on multispecies interactions, something that mobilities scholars
would benefit from paying more attention to.},
keywords = {Cambodia, fish migration, Laos, local ecological knowledge, Thailand},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}