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Creator:: Yoffe, Shira
Abstract:: In the policy literature and the popular press, the issues of water and conflict are being raised together with increasing frequency. Geographic, international relations, and environmental security theories speculate on the linkages between geographic features, natural resources, spatial relationships, and war or acute conflict. Little quantitative or global-scale research exists,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Zentner, Matthew A.
Abstract:: Increased variability of rainfall and flow from climate change has the potential to stress existing transboundary water sharing agreements and make meeting the needs of all riparians difficult. Water treaties have been theorized as valuable tools for mitigating conflict in times of climate stress, but the relationship between the design...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Title: Assessing the Design of International Water Supply and Hydropower Arrange- ments For Managing

Creator:: Shaver, Josiah J.
Abstract:: The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD) is a multifaceted global database that began in 1996 and includes a collection of international freshwater treaties, a database of water conflict-cooperation events, and a spatial database. Delineations of transboundary international river basin boundaries are the focus of the spatial database of which population,...
Resource Type:: Poster and Map or Cartographic Material
Full Text:: includes a collection of international freshwater treaties, a database of water conflict-cooperation

Creator:: Iyob, Biniam
Abstract:: Biophysical, socioeconomic and geopolitical pressures from population growth and economic development are leading to an increase in tensions regarding the sharing of water within transboundary basins. Transboundary basins are surface rivers and groundwater resources that are shared among sovereign nations and autonomous regions. This dissertation focuses on surface water in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and especially Dr. Mark Giordano, for funding my travel to

Creator:: Petersen-Perlman, Jacob D.
Abstract:: How does transboundary water cooperation begin at the initial stages? Countries in many transboundary basins either do not cooperate at all or have ceased cooperation altogether. Yet cooperation does often prevail, resulting in 688 water-related treaties signed between 1820 and 2007. The question we address here is, by which practices...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Pak, Mariya
Abstract:: The conflict over water resources exploitation and sharing in the Aral Sea Basin is one of the most pressing environmental issues yet to be resolved in Central Asia. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and establishment of the New Independent States (NIS) within the Aral Sea Bain led...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: conflict over international water resources is historically overwhelmed by the record of cooperation

Creator:: Malyar, Idrees
Abstract:: This study addresses the questions: 1) What kind of transboundary water management institution is needed for Afghanistan; and 2) what expertise is required for the institution and which stakeholders should be involved? The establishment of a transboundary water resources management institution/unit is an essential step for Afghanistan in order to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: cooperation over transboundary water resources from the Afghan standpoint. Furthermore, it reviewed the

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