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9789280810387

Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9789280810387

  • ISBN10:

    9280810383

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-01
  • Publisher: United Nations Univ

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Summary

Water ignores political boundaries and its natural management unit, the watershed, strains institutional and legal controls, leasing to competing claims for its use, This book is a comprehensive review of the literature on managing conflicts relating to water quantity and quality problems. Case studies of transboundary dispute resolution include the Danube, Euphrates, Jordan, Ganges, Indus, and Mekong rivers; the Nile Waters Agreement; the Plata basin; the Aral sea; and the Lesotho Highlands water project.

Author Biography

Heather L. Beach is an independent research consultant and web designer who holds an MS in Geographic and Cartographic Sciences Jesse Hamner is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia J. Joseph Hewitt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia Edy Kaufman is Senior Research Associate, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, College Park and Executive Director, Harry Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Anja Kurki is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park Joe A. Oppenheimer is a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park Aaron T. Wolf is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University

Table of Contents

Preface viii
Acknowledgements x
Part 1
1(4)
Introduction
3(2)
Part 2: Theory
5(32)
Organizational theory
7(20)
Institutions and law
7(6)
Water negotiations and institutional capacity
7(2)
International water law
9(2)
Hydrography vs chronology
11(2)
Summary
13(1)
Negotiation theory
14(11)
Conflict
14(3)
Resolution
17(7)
Case studies-Illustrations and generalizations
24(1)
Summary
25(2)
Economic theory
27(10)
Optimization models
27(4)
Optimization models and regional planning
27(1)
Social planner approach
28(1)
Inter and intraregional allocations
29(1)
Markets
30(1)
Case studies
30(1)
Summary
31(1)
Game theory
32(5)
Part 3: Practice
37(34)
Water disputes
39(18)
Comparative analysis and case studies
39(6)
Anticipating possible water conflict
40(1)
Indicators for type and intensity of conflict
41(2)
Obstacles to successful negotiations
43(1)
National vs international settings
44(1)
Summary
45(1)
Water treaties
46(9)
Literature review
47(1)
Background of modern water treaties
47(1)
Methodology
48(1)
The database and its contents
49(6)
Summary
55(2)
Environmental disputes
57(14)
Environmental security
57(6)
History
57(1)
Defining the concept
58(2)
The debate
60(1)
Bringing it together
61(1)
Water (transboundary resources)
62(1)
Summary
63(1)
Other resources
63(5)
The overarching problem of resource scarcity
64(1)
Oil
64(1)
Land
65(1)
Roads
66(1)
Fishing
66(1)
Air pollution
67(1)
Global warming
67(1)
Summary
68(3)
Part 4
71(6)
Conclusions and summary
73(4)
Part 5: Appendixes
77(2)
Case Studies
79(1)
Case studies of transboundary dispute resolution
79(5)
Danube river
84(4)
Euphrates basin
88(3)
Jordan river watershed
91(5)
Ganges river controversy
96(5)
Indus Water Treaty
101(6)
Mekong Committee
107(4)
Nile Waters Agreement
111(4)
Plata basin
115(2)
Salween river
117(2)
US/Mexico shared aquifers
119(2)
Aral sea
121(4)
The International Joint Commission: Canada and the United States of America
125(4)
Lesotho Highlands water project
129(3)
Treaty summaries
132(89)
Annotated literature
221(47)
Bibliography
268

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