This ESRC funded project started in January 2022 and runs for 3 years. This interdisciplinary project uses ethnographic methods to explore the politics of managing, and planning the management of, trans-border rivers on water resource frontiers. Such frontiers are critically important in today’s world as they are sites where different national interests collide over the management of often contested water resources.
The river Selenga, which runs from northern Mongolia into Russia’s Lake Baikal, and whose management this project will study, provides an exemplary case study of such collisions. Read more here
Dr Sayana Namsaraeva (Senior Research Associate)
Dr Joseph Bristley (Research Associate)joins the project in July 2022