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Managing and transforming water conflicts /

"All living things need water. ... Where water crosses boundaries -- be they economic, legal, political, or cultural -- the stage is set for disputes among different users trying to safeguard access to a vital resource, while protecting the natural environment. Without strategies to anticipate,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Delli Priscoli, Jerome
Other Authors: Wolf, Aaron T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010, ©2009.
Series:International hydrology series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Background, trends, and concepts
  • Water wars, water reality: Reframing the debate on transboundary water disputes, hydropolitics, and preventive hydrodiplomacy
  • Water conflict management: Theory and practice
  • Crafting institutions: Law, treaties, and shared benefits
  • Public participation, institutional capacity, and river basin organizations for managing conflict
  • Lessons learned: Patterns and issues
  • Water conflict prevention and resolution: Where to from here?
  • Appendix A: 1997 convention and ILC draft rules on international groundwater
  • Appendix B: River basin organizations / Jerome Delli Priscoli
  • Appendix C: Case studies of transboundary dispute resolution / Aaron T. Wolf and Joshua T. Newton
  • Appendix D: International water pricing: An overview and historic and modern case studies / Kristin M. Anderson and Lisa J. Gaines
  • Appendix E: Treaties with groundwater provisions / Kyoko Matsumoto
  • Appendix F: Treaties with water quality provisions / Meredith A. Giordano
  • Appendix G: Treaties the delineate water allocations / Aaron T. Wolf.