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CIAO DATE: 11/00

Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution: Theory, Practice, and Annotated References

Heather L. Beach, Jesse Hammer, J. Joseph Hewitt, Edy Kaufman, Anja Kurki, Joe A. Oppenheimer, and Aaron T. Wolf

United Nations University

2000

 

Contents (PDF format, 10 pages, 52 KB)

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1 (PDF format, 2 pages, 8 KB)

  1. Introduction (PDF format, 2 pages, 16 KB)

Part 2: Theory (PDF format, 2 pages, 8 KB)

  1. Organizational Theory (PDF format, 20 pages, 100 KB)

    Institutions and law

    Water negotiations and institutional capacity
    International water law
    Hydrography vs chronology

    Summary
    Negotiation theory

    Conflict
    Resolution
    Case studies — illustrations and generalizations

    Summary

  2. Economic Theory (PDF format, 10 pages, 48 KB)

    Optimization models

    Optimization models and regional planning
    Social planner approach
    Inter andintraregional allocations
    Markets
    Case studies

    Summary
    Game theory

Part 3: Practice (PDF format, 2 pages, 8 KB)

  1. Water disputes (PDF format, 18 pages, 84 KB)

    Comparative analysis and case studies

    Anticipating possible water conflict
    Indicators for type and intensity of conflict
    Obstacles to successful negotiations
    National vs international settings

    Summary

    Water treaties
    Literature review
    Background of modern water treaties
    Methodology
    The database and its contents

    Summary

  2. Environmental disputes (PDF format, 14 pages, 64 KB)

    Environmental security

    History
    Defining the concept
    The debate
    Bringingit together
    Water (transboundary resources)

    Summary
    Other resources
    The overarching problem of resource scarcity

    Oil
    Land
    Roads
    Fishing
    Air pollution
    Global warming

    Summary

Part 4 (PDF format, 2 pages, 8 KB)

  1. Conclusions and summary (PDF format, 4 pages, 24 KB)

Part 5: Appendixes (PDF format, 2 pages, 8 KB)

  1. Case Studies (PDF format, 53 pages, 188 KB)

    Case studies of transboundary dispute resolution

    Danube river
    Euphrates basin
    Jordan river watershed
    Ganges river controversy
    Indus Water Treaty
    Mekong Committee
    Nile Waters Agreement
    Plata basin
    Salween river
    US/Mexico shared aquifers
    Aral sea
    The International Joint Commission: Canada and the United States of America
    Lesotho Highlands water project

  2. Treaty summaries (PDF format, 89 pages, 280 KB)

  3. Annotated literature (PDF format, 47 pages, 368 KB)

  4. Bibliography (PDF format, 53 pages, 380 KB)

Index (PDF format, 4 pages, 28 KB)