Author : Anthony Turton
Publisher : Iwmi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Water resources development
ISBN :
Bringing contributions by a variety of authors together in one volume is part of an attempt to show that hydropolitics is a growing discipline in its own right. The prevailing definition of hydropolitics is widened to include the elements of scale and range. This is illustrated through a focus on theoretical and legal issues, case studies from Southern Africa and a proposed research agenda. The book is an important addition to the literature on hydropolitics.
Author : Arun P. Elhance
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781878379917
With more than 50 percent of the world's landmass covered by river basins shared by two or more states, competition over water resources has always had the potential to spark violence. And growing populations and accelerating demands for fresh water are putting ever greater pressures on already scarce water resources. In this wide-ranging study, Arun Elhance explores the hydropolitics of six of the world's largest river basins. In each case, Elhance examines the basin's physical, economic, and political geography; the possibilities for acute conflict; and efforts to develop bilateral and multilateral agreements for sharing water resources. The case studies lead to some sobering conclusions about impediments to cooperation but also to some encouraging ones--among them, that it may not be possible for Third World states to solve their water problems by going to war, and that eventually even the strongest riparian states are compelled to seek cooperation with their weaker neighbors.
Author : Anthony Turton
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 0620295198
Bringing contributions by a variety of authors together in one volume is part of an attempt to show that hydropolitics is a growing discipline in its own right. The prevailing definition of hydropolitics is widened to include the elements of scale and range. This is illustrated through a focus on theoretical and legal issues, case studies from Southern Africa and a proposed research agenda. The book is an important addition to the literature on hydropolitics.
Author : Leif Ohlsson
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
As well as a major overview of the global situation and problems involved, there are authoritative case studies of particular river systems in three continents, including the Nile Valley, the Tigris and Euphrates, the River Jordan, the Mekong and several cases from South Asia.
Author : Raj Bardouille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1443802271
Water is both an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in contemporary Africa. And we begin to learn that far distant processes of consumption and pollution can have their impact on the water systems of Africa: global warming produced by the material culture of the first world threatens the weather systems and very survival of developing countries. In this context, this volume – the product of an expert meeting at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development – traces and tracks the dynamics of the contemporary hydropolitics of Africa. The volume contains a variety of approaches to the study of the organisation of water within Africa ranging from technical essays on water borne diseases, through institutional analyses of the legal and political arrangements around the distribution of water to social policy analyses of the unmet demand for water amongst Africa’s poor. Taken as a whole, the volume provides the reader with a useful reference work on the contemporary hydropolitics of Africa whilst simultaneously providing a lively introduction to a critical and much neglected area of African development policy.
Author : Tony Allan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857733656
Is there enough water on this planet for a global population that will shortly double its present size? The answer is of huge importance for people everywhere, but particularly to the peoples and political leaders of the Middle East and North Africa. As well as explaining the particular issues of conflict in the region, Allan argues that the answer to these problems lies at the global rather than local level. The Middle East Water Question is a major book by one of the world's leading authorities on water issues.
Author : William Ascher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801860966
Drawing on 16 case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, reveals the complex political and programmatic reasons why government officials in developing countries often willfully adopt wasteful natural resource policies.
Author : Christine Folch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 069118660X
An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipoe Dam, the world's biggest producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world's largest power plant and the ways energy shapes politics and economics.ics.
Author : Scott Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190864109
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 : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814436674
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.
