New Perspectives on Transboundary Water Governance

ISBN-13: 9781032367668 / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str.

Opis

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches.

Spis treści

Presentation: theories and tensions regarding transboundary water uses

Wagner Costa Ribeiro

Luis Paulo Batista da Silva

Isabella Battistello Espíndola

 

PART 1

 

Chapter 1 - Climate change, adaptation, and risk of conflict in international river basins: beyond the conventional wisdom

Ken Conca

 

Chapter 2 - Exploring hydroparadiplomacy

Jeroen Warner

 

Chapter 3 - Framing the transboundary waters: political scales, governance and cooperation 

 

 

PART 2

 

Chapter 4 - Beyond conflict and cooperation in Central American transboundary river basins: crossroads of actors and borders

Edith Kauffer

 

Chapter 5 - Southern African transboundary waters: non-state actors in the Inkomati-Usuthu water management area and the Okavango river basin

Richard Meissner

 

Chapter 6 - The politics of water in the case of Syria

Marwan Safar Jalani

Hussam Hussein

 

Chapter 7 - Discussions on water governance in the Paraguay (South America) and Tagus (luso-hispanic) river basins

Flávia Darre Barbosa

PART 3

 

Chapter 8 - U.S.-Mexico border groundwater environmental conservation: Mexico’s public policy analysis 1948-2022

Gonzalo Hatch Kuri

Yussef Ricardo Abud Russell

 

Chapter 9 - Saline water, peace and security: analyzing the impact of desalination on transboundary groundwater interactions in the Middle East

Maureen Walschot

 

Chapter 10 - A new pathway for managing the Guarani Aquifer System: the border as a unit of transboundary management

Maria Luísa Telarolli de Almeida Leite

Pilar Carolina Villar

O autorze

Luis Paulo Batista da Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Program of Post-graduation in Geography at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil.

 

Wagner Costa Ribeiro is a Professor of the Program of Post-graduation in Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the coordinator of the Transboundary Waters Work Thematic Area of WATERLAT-GOBACIT.

 

Isabela Battistello Espíndola is a Senior Officer at the International Water Association (IWA) in London, United Kingdom.