Governing International Watercourses: River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes

ISBN-13: 9780415623582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 368 str.

Susanne Schmeier

Opis

This text focuses on river basin organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all river basin organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Governing International Watercourses Effectively  Part 1:  2. Building a Theory of River Basin Governance Effectiveness  Part 2:  3. River Basin Organizations Around the World  Part 3:  4. The Mekong River Commission – Continuous Cooperation in Spite of Adverse Conditions  5. The Danube River Basin and the ICPDR – Strong Achievements by a Narrow Institution  6. The Senegal River Basin and the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal (OMVS) – Benign Conditions, Deficient Effectiveness  7. Conclusion  Annexes.  References.  Index.

O autorze

Susanne Schmeier has worked with a number of River Basin Organizations, international organizations and bilateral donors in the field of transboundary river basins, among them the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Mekong River Commission. She holds a PhD from the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), a joint endeavour of the Hertie School of Governance, the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and the Freie Universität Berlin.