Part 1. 1. Introduction -- Part 2: Theory -- 2. Organizational Theory -- Institutions and law -- Water negotiations and institutional capacity -- International water law -- Hydrography vs chronology -- Negotiation theory -- Conflict -- Resolution -- Case studies -- illustrations and generalizations -- Summary -- 3. Economic Theory -- Optimization models -- Optimization models and regional planning -- Social planner approach -- Inter andintraregional allocations -- Markets -- Case studies -- Game theory -- Part 3: Practice 4. Water disputes -- Comparative analysis and case studies -- Anticipating possible water conflict -- Indicators for type and intensity of conflict -- Obstacles to successful negotiations -- National vs international settings -- Water treaties -- Literature review -- Background of modern water treaties -- Methodology -- The database and its contents -- 5. Environmental disputes -- Environmental security -- History -- Defining the concept -- The debate -- Bringingit together -- Water (transboundary resources) -- Other resources -- The overarching problem of resource scarcity -- Oil -- Land -- Roads -- Fishing -- Air pollution -- Global warming -- Part 4 6. Conclusions and summary -- Part 5: Appendixes -- 7. Case Studies -- 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 -- 8. Treaty summaries -- 9. Annotated literature -- 10. Bibliography
Summary
"This work attempts to provide a comprehensive review of the relevant literature on managing conflicts stemming from the quantity and quality problems of water around the world."--Preface
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-320) and index
