Mekong River Committees Role in Mekong Water Governance
Mekong River Committee (MRC) was formed in 1995 following the signing of the Agreement on the Co-operation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin (MRC agreement) by the countries sharing the lower Mekong River basin: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam.The 1995 Mekong Agreement, which established the MRC as an international incarnation body through which international cooperation is to be achieved, structured MRC with three permanent bodies—the Council, the Joint Committee, and the Secretariat.Factors that could affect the decision of MRC include (1) Member states and its National Mekong Committee; (2) Donors and development partners; (3) Civil society groups; (4) Upstream countries.Possible measures to improve the functioning of MRC would be, not limit to, the followers: (1) To clarify the power of MRC; (2) To revise MRC agreement; (3).To engage all countries in the Mekong River Basin, Sustainable development in Mekong region needs to be defined based on developmental stage of the basin states independently.Only allocate the right and obligation under the principle of reciprocity might make the MRC involving all basin states and becoming a real Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRN) organization in the future.
Mekong River Commission Water governance Problem Outlet
WANG Zhi-jian
School of Law,Hohai University,Nanjing,P.R.China,210098 Mekong Sub-region Social Research Center,Ubon Ratchathani University,Ubon Ratchathani,Thailand,34190
国际会议
2013 International Conference on Public Administration (9th)(2013年第九届公共管理国际会议)
南非
英文
134-140
2013-10-31（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）