Transboundary Impact Assessment in the Sesan River Basin: The Case of the Yali Falls Dam

摘要: This case study of the Yali Falls Hydropower Dam in Vietnamese portion Sesan River Basin demonstrates a range institutional and political challenges encountered assessment large-scale infrastructure projects with transboundary impacts. These include failure to implement standard international planning processes follow due process dam planning, construction operation, despite having received funding for expertise that could have enabled Vietnam such standards. Weak technical financial capacity on part downstream country, Cambodia, has allowed politically dominant upstream Vietnam, impose its national interests communities Cambodia. A impact only been implemented many years after was completed.