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Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A

Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South

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Energy, Governance and Security in

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Thailand and Myanmar (Burma)
A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South
Adam Simpson
• Ground-breaking book that proposes a new critical approach to
energy and environmental security.
• Describes how environmental movements are providing ’activist
environmental governance’ for energy projects in the absence of
effective and democratic governments.
• By comparing the nature of environmental activism under two
very different political regimes, this book delivers crucial theo-
retical insights with both academic and policy implications. Environmental studies
Across the world states are seeking out new and secure supplies (incl. movements,
politics, security)
of energy but this search is manifesting itself most visibly in Asia
Energy policy/security
where rapid industrialisation in states such as China and India is fo- Politics (incl. author-
menting a frantic scramble for energy resources. Due to entrenched itarian/illiberal re-
societal inequities and widespread authoritarian governance, how- gimes, civil society,
ever, the pursuit of national energy security through transnational social movements)
energy projects has resulted in devastating impacts on the human International relations
and environmental security of local populations. These effects are
particularly evident in both Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), which Thailand
are increasingly engaged in the cross-border energy trade. Based on Myanmar
extensive fieldwork and theoretical analysis this ground-breaking
book proposes a new critical approach to energy and environmental
security and explores the important role that both local and trans- ALSO OF INTEREST
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national environmental movements are playing, in the absence of
effective and democratic governments, in providing ’activist envi-

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ronmental governance’ for energy projects throughout the region.
By comparing the nature of this activism under two very different
political regimes it delivers crucial theoretical insights with both
academic and policy implications for the sustainable and equitable
development of the South’s natural resources.
About the author: Adam Simpson is Director of the Centre for Peace
and Security, Hawke Research Institute, and Senior Lecturer in In- Development
ternational Studies at the University of South Australia. He is also Professionals in
Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Northern Thailand
Policy, Griffith University. He was previously Associate Lecturer in Hope, Politics and
International Politics at the University of Adelaide and worked as Practice
an analyst with investment banks in the City of London. Katharine McKinnon
Readership: Scholars, professionals, policy-makers, NGOs, business- Focuses not just on de-
es, journalists and others working or concerned with energy issues. velopment aid but also
on aid professionals
MAY 2017 themselves.
NIAS Monographs, 137
Publ. 2012, 259 pp., illus.
336 pp., illustrated, 228 x 152 mm (9” x 6”) Pbk • 978-87-7694-084-3
Paperback: 978-87-7694-207-6: £19.99, $27 • £18.99

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