| Description |
1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Series |
Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management Series |
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Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Presentation -- Note -- Part 1: Interdisciplinary approaches to transboundary waters -- 1. Climate change, adaptation, and risk of conflict in international river basins: Beyond the conventional wisdom -- Introduction: International rivers and conflict risk -- The conventional wisdom on managing conflict risk -- What about climate change? -- Limits of the conventional wisdom -- The new political economy of water infrastructure -- The limited reach of basin institutions |
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Climate adaptation as conflict risk -- Revising the formula for managing conflict risks in transboundary basins -- References -- 2. Exploring hydroparadiplomacy -- Introduction -- paradiplomacy: A parachute for diplomacy? -- Some history -- Paradiplomacy -- Transborder cooperation to tackle shared environmental challenges -- Transregional outreach -- Cross-border cooperation to mobilize opposition -- Network diplomacy -- Hydroparadiplomacy -- Europe: Lake Constance hydroparadiplomacy -- Europe: River Scheldt estuary visioning -- Asia: China's Yunnan province: Hydroparadiplomacy on the Mekong |
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North America: The Great Lakes -- Africa: Indigenous hydroparadiplomacy on the Kunene -- Conclusion: Whither hydroparadiplomacy? -- Acknowledgment -- Note -- References -- 3. Framing the transboundary waters: Political scales, governance, and cooperation -- Introduction -- Transboundary waters in international law: How is the flow shared? -- Transboundary waters governance: Who participates in water politics? -- Transboundary waters cooperation: What is aimed? -- Final remarks -- References -- Part 2: Global case studies on surface water |
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4. Beyond conflict and cooperation in Central American transboundary river basins: Crossroads of actors and borders -- Introduction -- Transboundary waters: From conflicts to cooperation in traditional scholarship to entangled realities -- Entanglements of conflicts and cooperation in Central American TRBs -- Conflict creating conflict: The flouted and transgressed Guatemalan Mexican border -- From disinterest to growing conflict (through inefficient cooperation): The sinking garbage Motagua river basin |
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Conflict strengthening cooperation mediated by conflict: The Sumpul river basin (El Salvador-Honduras) -- Conflict despite cooperation: The Cerro Blanco mine in Ostua TRB (Guatemala-El Salvador) in-betweenness -- Cooperation deepening cooperation: The Ocotepeque-Citalá aquifer -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. Southern African transboundary waters: Non-state actors in the Inkomati-Usuthu water management area and the Okavango river basin -- Introduction -- The Inkomati-Usuthu water management area -- Inkomati river -- Usuthu river -- Okavango river -- Non-state transnational relations |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Inkomati-Usuthu catchment management agency and the diffusion of programme theories |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ribeiro, Wagner Costa
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Espíndola, Isabella Battistello
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| ISBN |
9781003829621 |
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1003829627 |
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