The book's final section consists of two chapters that echo the arguments made in the
introduction. In chapter 6, Santasombat again presents his case that by using local knowl- edge, riparian communities have been able to adapt to environmental and socioeconomic changes caused by rapid state-led development in the Mekong Basin. For example, vil- lagers in the lng River Basin in northern Thailand have used local knowledge of fish spawning and migrations to create seasonal fishing limits for inland water bodies