英文摘要 |
Asia, with the most population among all continents, is emerging as the future economic development center in the world. As population growth and living standards rising, freshwater usage must be increasing. Rivers flows through artificially demarcated borders, and united their users. How to share common water resources is the most important challenge faced by riparian nations. This paper discussed the importance and meaning of water governance in transboundary rivers and analyzed the case in the Mekong River basin. It introduced the history of water governance in the Mekong River basin, and evaluated its performance from environmental, political, social, and economic dimensions. Economic developments and poverty alleviation are at the top of the transboundary governance goals, that is why the issue of environmental sustainability is often ignored. The nurture of environmental consciousness is the guarantee of sustainable development. The profound governance obstructions are the cooperation selectively among riparian states, the absence of political democracy and active public participation, the ignorance of the poor's needs, and the corruption causing governance budgets consumed. |