Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand The Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) was established as a Research Unit within the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University in 1985. It was established to undertake interdisciplinary research linking across the various fields of political science within the Faculty (government, public administration, international relations, and sociology and anthropology) and more broadly in the social sciences, and to provide support in education, research, and teaching. With the intention of linking the CSDS research to educational development, in 2006 the CSDS supported the launch of the MA in International Development Studies (MAIDS) program. Building on MAIDS, in August 2018, the Ph.D.-level Graduate Research in International Development (GRID) program was also launched. The missions of the CSDS are: to produce interdisciplinary critical research on development policy and practice in Southeast Asia that aims to be innovative, inclusive and sustainable; to contribute to policy processes through undertaking research in collaboration with those involved in development policy and practice, participating in research, policy and academic networks, and by sharing our research publicly; to support young and mid-career researchers and public intel- lectuals via the MAIDS and GRID programs, other taught programs within the Faculty of Political Science of Chulalongkorn University, and through our fel- lowship programs and internships; and to organize public forums for debating critical issues on development by hosting seminars, conferences, and workshops. The research of CSDS currently focuses on to five themes: resource politics; rethinking regionalization; human rights, human security and justice; transdisci- plinary knowledge and innovation; and the public sphere, democratization and the commons. Our recent projects have been in collaboration with: universities in Southeast Asia and beyond; civil society organizations and community based © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 305 C. Middleton and V. Lamb (eds.), Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River, The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics— Society—Science 27, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77440-4 306 Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science … organizations; research institutes; the media; and government organizations. To encourage collaborative research, knowledge exchange and capacity building, we host research associates, visiting researchers, and interns. Since 2018, the CSDS has also hosted the Chulalongkorn University Center of Excellence on Resource Politics for Social Development. York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is a community of York University researchers who are committed to analyzing the changing historical and contem- porary dynamics of societies in Asia, understanding Asia’s place in the world, and studying the experiences of Asian communities in Canada and around the globe. Our inter-disciplinary membership includes faculty, students and other research associates from across the social sciences, humanities, health, education, creative/performing arts, law and business. Some common themes characterize much of the research that YCAR fosters and supports. First, we adopt an explicitly transnational approach to research, meaning that we seek to understand connections within Asia, between Asia and the rest of the world, and between Asia and its diasporas. Second, we value research that is based on extended field and archival research, language study and the long-term development of expertise. Third, we emphasize a critical and engaged model of scholarship, attentive to social justice agendas that seek to address exclusions or inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, ‘race’, caste, religion, region or environmental dispossession. Often, this involves collaboration with the commu- nities being studied in the research process, and the mobilization of research findings to effect public education and social change. The role of the Centre in the work of individual researchers is to create a space for interdisciplinary intellectual exchange, to provide administrative support for research projects, and to enrich student training through fieldwork and language awards and a graduate diploma programme. We also provide an access point for anyone interested in York expertise on Asia and Asian communities, and we actively seek to deliver research to the widest possible audience. Founded in 2002, YCAR continues a strong tradition of internationally recog- nized research in Asian Studies at York, pioneered since 1974 by the Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, and the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (both in col- laboration with the University of Toronto). © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 307 C. Middleton and V. Lamb (eds.), Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River, The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics— Society—Science 27, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77440-4 About the Editors Carl Middleton, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), and Deputy Director for Research Affairs on the MA in International Development Studies (MAIDS) Program in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Since 2018, the CSDS has also hosted the Center of Excellence in Resource Politics for Social Development of Chulalongkorn University, which he leads. His research interests ori- entate around the politics and policy of the environ- ment in Southeast Asia, with a focus on nature-society relations, environmental justice and social movements, transdisciplinary research, and the political ecology of water and energy. His taught courses include on Development Theory and Practice; Politics of Public Policy; Environmental Policy and Politics; and Innovation for Inclusive Development. Dr. Middleton has led or collaborated on various research projects in Southeast Asia. These include: a regional water governance study of the Salween River; a fellowship program in the Salween, Mekong and Red river basins; a study on the political ecology of flooding and migration in Southeast Asia; a project on knowledge co-production for the recovery of wetland agro-ecological systems in the Mekong region; and a curriculum development project on transdisciplinary research methods. He is currently undertaking research on the hydropolitics of knowledge production on the Lancang-Mekong River, the (tele-) connections between Thailand and Japan’s water security (with Takeshi Ito), and on demar- cating the public and private in resource governance in the Mekong Region (with Phillip Hirsch). © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 309 C. Middleton and V. Lamb (eds.), Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River, The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics— Society—Science 27, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77440-4 310 About the Editors His most recent book, co-authored with Jeremy Allouche and Dipak Gyawali, is titled The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice (Earthscan-Routledge, 2019). He also recently co-edited with Rebecca Elmhirst and Supang Chantavanich the book Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia: A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change (Earthscan, 2018). His recent peer reviewed publications in the fields of political ecology and development studies include: “National Human Rights Institutions, Extraterritorial Obligations and Hydropower in Southeast Asia: Implications of the Region’s Authoritarian Turn” in the Austrian Journal of Southeast Asia Studies (2018); “Branding Dams: Nam Theun 2 and its Role in Producing the Discourse of ‘Sustainable Hydropower’” chapter in Dead in the Water edited by Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018); “Water, Rivers and Dams” chapter in the Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia edited by Phillip Hirsch (Routledge, 2017); and “Watershed or Powershed?: A critical hydropolitics of the ‘Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Framework’” co-authored with Jeremy Allouche in the journal The International Spectator (2016). Address: Room 115, Faculty of Political Science, Building 2, Henri Dunant Road, Chulalongkorn University Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.csds-chula.org and www.maids-chula.org. Vanessa Lamb, Ph.D. is a Geographer at the University of Melbourne. In research and teaching in the School of Geography, she focuses on human-environment geographies and political ecology of Southeast Asia, with a focus on water justice. Dr. Lamb completed her dissertation, Ecologies of Rule and Resistance, focused on the politics of ecological knowledge and development of the Salween River at York University’s Department of Geography in 2014. Dr. Lamb was also the inaugural Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia (UCRSEA) research fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada and is an affiliated researcher with the York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto, Canada. Across these institutional, Dr. Lamb has been working with collaborators in Southeast Asia on two major research projects focused on the Salween. This includes the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and