Mekong Fisheries

Webinar 2: Mekong Fisheries
Date & Time: October 13, 2021, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST

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About the webinar:

In recent decades, people living in the Southeast Asia have witnessed major transformations in their lives and livelihoods. This series of seminars will focus on a variety of issues—all of which have a plastic connection. The first webinar introduces the expanding problem of plastic waste in the region and community and government action to reign it in. The following webinars talk about the growth of fisheries and aquaculture, the expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations, and the politics of conservation and heritage areas. This series of four webinars will explore how communities in the region are experiencing the economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations.

Panelists:
Brian Szuster, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Senglong Youk, Deputy Executive Director & Program Director, Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT)
Wisa Wisesjindawat-Fink, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mekong Culture WELL Project, Michigan State University
Aaron Koning, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wonders of the Mekong Project, Global Water Center, University of Nevada, Reno

Moderator:
Amanda Flaim, Assistant Professor, James Madison College and Department of Sociology, Mekong Culture WELL, Michigan State University

Part of the Fall 2021 LuceSEA Webinar Series, “Southeast Asia in Transition: Plastic Runs Through It.”