Transboundary Water Cooperation

Author : Melissa McCracken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000549805

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Defining Effective Transboundary Water Cooperation by Melissa McCracken Pdf

This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes. With the increasing focus on transboundary cooperation as a part of the Sustainable Development Goal Framework, there is global recognition of transboundary water cooperation as a tool for improved governance and management of transboundary surface and groundwaters. However, there is not an agreed upon definition of transboundary water cooperation in the literature or in practice. This book develops the Four Frames of Transboundary Water Cooperation, which is a neutral modular framework for developing context-specific explanatory definitions of transboundary water cooperation in basins and aquifers. The Four Frames of Cooperation are legal, institutional, relational, and outcome. However, we need to move beyond defining cooperation to understand better measures of the quality and effectiveness of cooperative processes. The Weighted Model of Effective Cooperation presents a first step in qualitatively evaluating the effectiveness of transboundary water cooperation. This model defines effective transboundary water cooperation and operationalizes a method to evaluate the effectiveness of cooperative processes over internationally shared waters. Effective cooperation emphasizes the relational and outcome frames of cooperation while working towards equitability and sustainability. Together, the Four Frames of Cooperation and the Weighted Model of Effective Cooperation will improve the understanding of cooperation and encourage a detailed evaluation of the quality, success, and effectiveness of cooperative processes. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, water governance, and environmental politics. It will also appeal to policymakers and professionals working in the fields of water conflict, water diplomacy, and international cooperation.

Author : Economic Commission for Europe,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004674

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Progress on Transboundary Water Cooperation by Economic Commission for Europe,UNESCO Pdf

Author : United Nations ECE
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210472487

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Progress on Transboundary Water Cooperation under the Water Convention by United Nations ECE Pdf

The publication presents and analyses the findings of the first pilot reporting exercise under the Water Convention, which was carried out in 2017. Progress made in the implementation of the Convention is reviewed and summarised, together with the identification of significant trends, success, challenges and opportunities concerning transboundary water cooperation. The reporting mechanism under the Convention was formally adopted (decision VII/2) by the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention at its seventh session (Budapest, 17-19 November 2015).

Author : Naho Mirumachi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135082833

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Transboundary Water Politics in the Developing World by Naho Mirumachi Pdf

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world. These shared rivers are the setting for irrigation, hydropower and flood management projects as well as water transfer schemes. Often, these projects attempt to engineer the river basin with deep political, socio-economic and environmental implications. The politics of transboundary river basin management sheds light on the challenges concerning sustainable development, water allocation and utilization between sovereign states. Advancing conceptual thinking beyond simplistic analyses of river basins in conflict or cooperation, the author proposes a new analytical framework. The Transboundary Waters Interaction NexuS (TWINS) examines the coexistence of conflict and cooperation in riparian interaction. This framework highlights the importance of power relations between basin states that determine negotiation processes and institutions of water resources management. The analysis illustrates the way river basin management is framed by powerful elite decision-makers, combined with geopolitical factors and geographical imaginations. In addition, the book explains how national development strategies and water resources demands have a significant role in shaping the intensities of conflict and cooperation at the international level. The book draws on detailed case studies from the Ganges River basin in South Asia, the Orange–Senqu River basin in Southern Africa and the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia, providing key insights on equity and power asymmetry applicable to other basins in the developing world.

Author : Richard E. Just,Sinaia Netanyahu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461556497

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Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources by Richard E. Just,Sinaia Netanyahu Pdf

This book demonstrates what the discipline of economics has to offer as support for analyzing cooperation on management of trans-boundary water resources. It also considers what the discipline of economics has to acquire to become a more effective contributor to trans-boundary water resource management given political, legal, social, physical, scientific, and ecological realities. This book has its genesis in a symposium of the International Water and Resource Economics Consortium held at Annapolis, Maryland, April 13-16, 1997. The symposium was organized by the editors and the book contains papers presented at the symposium with subsequent revisions. The symposium brought together both economists and agency management personnel for the purpose of discussing not only how economic tools apply to trans-boundary water management, but also of identifying the obstacles to making such tools useful and informative to politicians and negotiators in public decision making roles. INTERNATIONAL VERSUS DOMESTIC TRANS-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS Trans-boundary water problems arise in many dimensions. The two most important types of problems emphasized in this book are international and domestic interstate or interregional problems. Cooperation on international problems is especially difficult because enforcement must be voluntary given the sovereignty of nations and the absence of an effective legal enforcement mechanism. Agreements must be sustainable and self-enforced if they are to have lasting benefits. Every negotiating country must be convinced it will receive benefits before it gives its consent to cooperation. In the absence of enforceable agreements, trans-boundary (i. e.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Water (United Nations)
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D02874831M

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Transboundary Water Cooperation by Anonim Pdf

This publication is the main output of the "Transboundary Water Cooperation in the Newly Independent States" project. It aims to define the status, trends and further needs with regard to transboundary water cooperation in the Newly Independent States (NIS), and between NIS and their neighbours. The analysis and recommendations will provide a basis for future actions and projects for the development of cooperation in the NIS on transboundary waters, in particular within the work programme of the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) and the Strategic Partnership on Water for Sustainable Development.

Author : Saruchera, D.,Lautze, Jonathan
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290908272

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Measuring Transboundary Water Cooperation by Saruchera, D.,Lautze, Jonathan Pdf

Water cooperation has received prominent focus in the post-2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While proposals for measuring water cooperation appear to be converging toward a small set of indicators, the degree to which these proposed indicators draw on past work is unclear. This paper mines relevant past work to generate guidance for monitoring the proposed SDG target related to transboundary water cooperation. Potential measures of water cooperation were identified, filtered and applied in three countries (Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe). Six indicators were ultimately determined as being suitable for measuring water cooperation. As the SDG process turns its focus to the selection of indicators, the indicators proposed in this paper may merit consideration

Author : Patricia Wouters,Huiping Chen,James E. Nickum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351973700

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Transboundary Water Cooperation by Patricia Wouters,Huiping Chen,James E. Nickum Pdf

China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in which international law plays a vital role. Paramount to both policymakers and researchers in the field of water law, the current status of transboundary water cooperation schemes and how these operate in China is of global significance. Grounded in international experience, this comprehensive volume provides readers with an up-to-date overview of current international transboundary water resource sharing policies and practices, including detailed case studies at both domestic and international levels. The authors discuss existing international laws, treaties, and principles that may stimulate transboundary water cooperation and dialogue, and then analyse a number of international experiences with treaties in North America, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. They take stock of China’s water resource issues, legal practices and options, examine case studies of China’s southern shared rivers, and explore some innovative approaches to cooperative management of shared waters within China. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Water International.

Author : Götz Reichert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004320956

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Transboundary Water Cooperation in Europe by Götz Reichert Pdf

In Transboundary Water Cooperation in Europe, Götz Reichert analyzes the multidimensional regime for the protection and management of European transboundary freshwater resources that is composed of international water law, the water law of the European Union, and domestic water legislation.

Author : Economic Commission for Europe
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213631126

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Principles for Effective Joint Bodies for Transboundary Water Cooperation under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes by Economic Commission for Europe Pdf

The Principles for Effective Joint Bodies for Transboundary Water Cooperation, presented in this publication, distil valuable lessons from the experiences of joint bodies worldwide, Parties to the Water Convention and other States, as well as other stakeholders. These experiences were gathered through an extensive consultation process under the Water Convention. At its seventh session (Budapest, 17-19 November 2015) the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention formally adopted the principles and encouraged countries to use them. The principles seek to facilitate the establishment and work of joint bodies and ultimately to contribute to reaching a high level of cooperation between riparian States. The principles are highly relevant in the light of the opening of the Water Convention to all United Nations Member States and can assist countries in implementing one of its main obligations.

Author : Commission économique pour l'Europe
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789231002786

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Progress on transboundary water cooperation by Commission économique pour l'Europe Pdf

Author : Christina Leb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107035973

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Cooperation in the Law of Transboundary Water Resources by Christina Leb Pdf

This book analyses the legal challenges facing international cooperation on water management in the twenty-first century.

Author : Shlomi Dinar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135981914

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International Water Treaties by Shlomi Dinar Pdf

Systematic and analytical, this book, written an expert in the field of hydro-politics, develops a theory to explain solutions to property rights conflicts over shared rivers. .

Author : Enamul Choudhury,Shafiqul Islam
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783088706

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Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts by Enamul Choudhury,Shafiqul Islam Pdf

‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues. Based on this theoretical frame, the book applies the ideas and tools from complexity science, contingency and enabling conditions to account for events in the formulation of treaties/agreements between disputing riparian states in river basins across the world (Indus, Jordan, Nile, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Colorado, Danube, Senegal and Zayandehrud). It also includes a section with scholars’ reflections on the relevance and weakness of the theoretical framework.

Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
ISBN : UIUC:30112122480780

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Principles for Effective Joint Bodies for Transboundary Water Cooperation by United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe Pdf

This publication presents the Principles for Effective Joint Bodies for Transboundary Water Cooperation that were formally adopted by the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention at its seventh session (Budapest, 17-19 November 2015). Countries sharing transboundary waters worldwide are encouraged to make use of them when establishing new joint bodies or strengthening existing ones. The principles seek to synthesize valuable lessons from the collective experience of joint bodies for transboundary water cooperation, Parties to the Water Convention and other States, as well as other stakeholders. The principles are classified in two main categories. The first category presents principles related with the establishment of joint bodies, their structure and functions, including issues such as their tasks, their competence and mandate. The second category describes principles related with the operational aspects of joint bodies such as procedural considerations, financial and human resources.