Sharing Transboundary Resources

Author : Eyal Benvenisti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521640985
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing Transboundary Resources written by Eyal Benvenisti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do states often fail to cooperate, using transboundary natural resources inefficiently and unsustainably? This book, first published in 2002, examines the contemporary international norms and policy recommendations that could provide incentives for states to cooperate. Its approach is multi-disciplinary, proposing transnational institutions for the management of transboundary resources. Benvenisti takes a fresh approach to the problem, considering mismanagement as the link between domestic and international processes. As well, he explores reasons why some collective efforts to develop the international law on transnational ecosystems have failed, while others succeeded. This inquiry suggests that adjudicators need to be assertive in progressively developing the law, while relying on scientific knowledge more than on past practice. Global water policy issues seem set to remain a cause for concern for the foreseeable future; this study provides a new approach to the problem of freshwater, and will interest international environmentalists and lawyers, and international relations scholars and practitioners.

Author : Eyal Benvenisti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107116108
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing Transboundary Resources written by Eyal Benvenisti and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do states often use transboundary resources inefficiently? Benvenisti considers a range of factors, including mismanagement as a link between domestic and international processes. He also looks forward to potential solutions in this multi-disciplinary approach. Benvenisti's analysis will interest international environmentalists and lawyers, and international relations scholars and practitioners.

Author : Eyal Benvenisti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139431408
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing Transboundary Resources written by Eyal Benvenisti and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lei Xie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134973861
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's International Transboundary Rivers written by Lei Xie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect China’s relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia. Since China is an upstream state on most of its shared transboundary rivers, the country’s international water policy is at the core of Asia’s water security. These water disputes have had strong implications for China’s interstate relations, and also influenced its international water policy alongside domestic concerns over water resource management. This book investigates China’s policy responses to domestic water crises and examines China’s international water policy as well as its strategy in dealing with international cooperation. The authors describe the key elements of water diplomacy in Asia which demonstrate varying degrees of effectiveness of environmental agreements. It shows how China has established various institutional arrangements with neighbouring countries, primarily in the form of bilateral agreements over hydrological data exchange. Detailed case studies are included of the Mekong, Brahmaputra, Ili and Amur rivers.

Author : Gabriel Eckstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000528944
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strengthening Cooperation over Transboundary Groundwater Resources written by Gabriel Eckstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater is humanity’s most vital supply of freshwater. Freshwater resources contained in aquifer systems globally are two orders of magnitude greater than those found in all rivers, lakes, and other surface freshwaters combined. Moreover, approximately one half of the world’s population today is dependent on groundwater for its basic needs. While these truisms are widely acknowledged, an additional reality is now recognized – many of these subsurface freshwater reservoirs are actually transboundary formations shared amongst two or more nations. In fact, around 600 transboundary aquifers have been identified worldwide. They underlie the territory of nearly every non-island nation and are found in both humid and arid environments. Surprisingly, though, only a handful of transboundary aquifers worldwide are subject to any type of formal or informal international agreement. Transboundary groundwater resources are now receiving growing attention among the international community. Questions are being raised about how they should be managed, allocated and protected, what rights aquifer riparians can enjoy, and what responsibilities these aquifer states might owe to neighbouring aquifer riparians. This book considers all these various aspects of the management and regulation of transboundary groundwater resources. It also presents case studies and explores recent efforts to engage the international community on best practices and global standards for governing transboundary aquifers. As communities and nations continue to expand their reliance on these critical sources of freshwater, they will have to address such issues and develop governance regimes for these shared subsurface resources. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Water International.

Author : N. Shantha Mohan
Publisher : Routledge India
ISBN 13 : 9781138380363
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Water Sharing written by N. Shantha Mohan and published by Routledge India. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a broad perspective of the water scenario in India by examining the various developments in the sector and the emerging alternative paradigms. It points out the inadequacies of the existing legal frameworks and institutional mechanisms to manage water efficiently.

Author : Sharelle Hart
Publisher : World Conservation Union
ISBN 13 : 9782831711416
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shared Resources written by Sharelle Hart and published by World Conservation Union. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines the characteristics of successful transboundary resource management. Various cases of different shared resources, from water to fish to air, are described and their strengths and weaknesses analyzed. Successful management of transboundary resources is growing in relevance as resources become sparse and conflicts over them increase. However, many of its elements have not yet been sufficiently defined and applied. The publication will serve to further this important discussion.

Author : Jacques Ganoulis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540607144
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transboundary Water Resources Management written by Jacques Ganoulis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-02-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world facing a growing water crisis, conflicts regarding water sharing and environmental issues are expected to grow, especially in transboundary river basins, where 40% of the world's population lives. This book represents one of the first attempts to bring together methodologies and analytical tools from socio-economic, international policy, engineering, and water management specialists dealing with transboundary water resources. The book is divided into three parts. Part I introduces state--of-the-art concepts in institutional policy and conflict analysis. Part II presents engineering approaches and models for transboundary water management and conflict resolution. Part III analyzes cases in international river basins and enclosed seas.

Author : John F. Shroder
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128018615
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan written by John F. Shroder and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies. Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya. Synthesizes information on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources Offers a basic topographic description of the Indus River watershed Provides local water management information not easily available for remote and contentious border areas Delivers access to the newest thinking from chief personnel on both sides of the contentious border Features material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies

Author : Wolf, Aaron T.
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231041673
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing water, sharing benefits written by Wolf, Aaron T. and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2010-06-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: