chapter 1 China’s hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Implications for resource access and development / GIUSEPPINA SICILIANO -- chapter 2 Rewards and risks of Chinese hydropower in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) / STEW MOTTA -- chapter 3 China’s investment in African hydropower: How to govern the water–energy nexus? Evidence from the Bui Dam in Ghana / OLIVER HENSENGERTH -- chapter 4 Benchmarking the environmental and social management policies and practices of Chinese overseas dam builders / YING QIU -- chapter 5 The political ecology of rising China: Case study of Chinese hydropower dams in Africa and Asia / MAY TAN-MULLINS, FRAUKE URBAN AND GRACE MANG -- chapter 6 The environmental and social governance of the Bui Dam project in Ghana / PAUL W. K. YANKSON, KWADWO OWUSU AND ALEX B. ASIEDU -- chapter 7 The environmental and social governance of the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia / GIUSEPPINA SICILIANO, FRAUKE URBAN, MAY TAN-MULLINS, LONN PICHDARA AND SOUR KIM -- chapter 8 Process and project failures in dam-building in Nigeria: The case of Zamfara Hydropower Dam / FELIX OLORUNFEMI -- chapter 9 Chinese dam-building, renewable energy and socio-ecological change in east Malaysia / FADZILAH MAJID COOKE, GUSNI SAAT, FRAUKE URBAN AND GIUSEPPINA SICILIANO -- chapter 10 Global dam-building: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable development / FRAUKE URBAN.