River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kittikhoun, Anoulak; Schmeier, Susanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Will tensions and disputes among states sharing international water courses and lakes turn into active conflicts? Addressing this question, the book shows that these concerns are more prominent due to the locations and underlying political dynamics of some of these large rivers and the strategic interests of major powers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429561245
• Artikelnr.: 60340345

Autorenporträt

Anoulak Kittikhoun is a political scientist, strategist and planner who has worked for a national government, a think tank, the United Nations, and a major river basin organization. As chief strategy and partnership officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat, he leads the organization's work on strategic planning and policy, international cooperation, communication and stakeholder engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational development. Susanne Schmeier is an expert on the legal and institutional dimensions of natural resources governance, with a particular focus on shared water resources. She works for IHE Delft - Institute for Water Education, where her work focuses on research, capacity development and advisory services relating to conflict and cooperation over shared natural resources, international environmental and water law and water governance. Prior to joining IHE Delft, she worked for various international organization and national governments. She has published extensively on shared water resources governance and in particular river basin organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Do river basin organizations make a difference in water
diplomacy and conflict management? 1. The legal role and context of river
basin organizations 2. Water diplomacy and collaborative governance in the
Great Lakes Basin 3. Water diplomacy and shared resources along the United
States-Mexico border 4. Process aspects of the development of shared waters
agreements: The Columbia River Treaty 5. International river basin
organizations and benefit sharing arrangements in the Columbia and Senegal
international river basins: Past, present, and future 6. The Niger Basin:
Is development raising the stakes of cooperation? 7. Water diplomacy and
conflict transformation in the Nile River Basin: The key role of the Nile
Basin Initiative over the past 20 years 8. Managing abundance: CICOS and
the Congo 9. Water diplomacy in the absence of a river basin organization:
A case study in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine 10. Water diplomacy in the
Helmand River Basin: Exploring the obstacles to cooperation within the
shadow of anarchy 11. Prolonging or resolving water conflicts in Central
Asia? The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea 12. The Mekong River
Commission as a water diplomat 13. China in international institutions for
water governance 14. Managing disagreements in European basins: What role
for river basin organizations in water diplomacy? 15. Conclusion: Managing
tensions and sharing benefits-international rivers in conflict and
cooperation