[PDF] Special Issue Conflict And Cooperation Over International Rivers eBook

Author : Salman M. A. Salman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821353523

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'Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers' traces the development of international water law. This book focuses on the hydro-politics of four countries in the South Asia region: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It analyzes the problems that these countries have encountered as riparians of international rivers and how they have addressed these problems. In particular, this study reviews the treaty regimes governing the Indus River basin, the Ganges River basin, and the Kosi, Gandaki, and Mahakali river basins. Each of these regimes is described in-depth, with special attention devoted to the main problems each of these treaties sought to address. The authors also review the treaty experience and offer observations on bilateralism and multilateralism.

Author : Scott Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190864109

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It's often claimed that future wars will be fought over water. But while international water conflict is rare, it's common between subnational jurisdictions like states and provinces. Drawing on cases in the United States, China, India, and France, this book explains why these subnational water conflicts occur - and how they can be prevented.

Author : Jack Kalpakian
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780754633389

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Jack Kalpakian tests the dominant assumption that water disputes cause violent conflict between states and other actors in world politics. Using case studies from arid regions to bias the effort towards this assumption, he finds that issues related to identity have been the real source of conflict in the river basins studied. binding peoples and states in an international river basin.

Author : Shira B. Yoffe
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fresh water
ISBN :

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In the policy literature and the popular press, the issues of water and conflict are being raised together with increasing frequency. Geographic, international relations, and environmental security theories speculate on the linkages between geographic features, natural resources, spatial relationships, and war or acute conflict. Little quantitative or global-scale research exists, however, to test these theories regarding the relationship of water to international conflict. Moreover current literature often lacks consideration of water cooperation or spatial variability. The Basins at Risk (BAR) project addressed this gap by empirically identifying historical indicators of international freshwater conflict and cooperation and creating a framework to identify and evaluate international river basins at potential risk for future conflict. To accomplish this task, we created a database of historical incidents of water-related cooperation and conflict across all international river basins from 1948 to 1999, delineated an historical Geographic Information System (GIS) of international river basins and associated countries, derived biophysical, socioeconomic, and geopolitical variables at multiple spatial and temporal scales, and tested these variables against our event data. We found that international relations over shared freshwater resources were overwhelmingly cooperative. Although conflicts over water occurred, violent conflict was rare and far outweighed by the number of international water agreements. International cooperation over water resources covered a wide range of concerns, including quantity, quality, hydropower, and infrastructure development. Conflict, especially acute conflict, centered on issues of quantity and infrastructure (e.g., dams, reservoirs). The majority of commonly cited indicators (e.g., climate, water stress, government type, relative power relationships) showed no statistically significant association with international water conflict or cooperation. Rather, the tendency towards conflict was associated with rapid or extreme changes in physical or institutional systems (e.g., the building of large dams or the internationalization of a basin). The propensity for such conflict was mitigated by the presence of institutional mechanisms, such as freshwater treaties. From the results of our analyses, we identify three categories of basins at risk and present a framework for further evaluation of the potential for international water conflict in these basins.

Author : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814436674

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Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. It demonstrates their application, using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling, quantitative negotiation theory, and game theory. Case-studies of particular transboundary river basins, lakes, and aquifers are also considered.This second edition updates the literature on international water and in-depth analyses on political developments and cooperation between riparian states. With an appended chapter on principles and practices of negotiation, and a new case study on the La Plata Basin, this edition is a timely update to the field of transboundary water studies.

Author : Shlomi Dinar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN :

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Shared International Fresh Waters are subject to increased competition, especially in water-scarce regions. Although shared water issues have become a major regional development constraint, the approaches to solve existing and potential disputes over shared international fresh waters have lagged behind and are much less advanced than those of other natural resources that are international in nature. In our review of books and special issues published between 1992-2003, we survey the literature pertaining to conflict and cooperation over international shared waters. While we note three categories for which the literature can be categorized - theoretical, empirical, and case studies - we demonstrate that case study work and by extension theoretical work has been most dominant in the water field. Empirical work has largely been limited to individual scholarly articles and even in that regard has been minimal. The article reviews and discusses the literature in the context of several disciplines including economics, international relations, negotiation theory and international water law. We propose ideas for further research in the conclusion.

Author : Selina Ho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780367636760

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A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia explores water disputes in Asia and addresses the question of how states sharing a river system can be incentivized to cooperate. Water scarcity is a major environmental, societal, and economic problem around the world. Increasing demand for water as a result of rapid economic development, high population growth and density has depleted the world's water resources, leading to floods, droughts, environmental disasters, and societal displacement. Shared river basins are therefore often a source of tension and conflict between states. In regions where relations between countries have historically been conflictual, scarce river water resources have exacerbated tensions and have even sparked wars. Yet, more often than not, states sharing a river basin are able to come to some form of agreement, whether they are far-reaching ones such as water-sharing agreements or those that are more limited such as the sharing of hydrological data. Why do riparian states cooperate, especially when power asymmetries between upstream and downstream countries are characteristic of transboundary river basins? How do non-state actors affect the management of international rivers? What are the conditions that facilitate or hinder cooperation? This book wrestles with these questions by exploring water disputes and cooperation in the major river systems in Asia, and by comparing them with cases in Africa, Europe, and the United States. This book will be of great value to scholars, students, and policymakers interested in transboundary water disputes and cooperation, hydro-diplomacy, and river activism. It was originally published as special issues of Water International.