International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward armed conflict and war, Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Dinar demonstrate that there are many examples of and mechanisms for more peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change. The authors base these arguments on both global empirical analyses and case studies. Using numerous...
International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental ch...
Common wisdom holds that the earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly even set off "resource wars." Many scholars and policymakers have considered the environmental roots of violent conflict and instability, but little attention has been paid to the idea that scarcity and degradation may actually play a role in fostering inter-state cooperation.
Beyond Resource Wars fills this gap, offering a different perspective on the links between environmental problems and inter-state...
Common wisdom holds that the earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state confl...
As demand for fresh water rises water scarcity already figures on the national security agenda of many countries. This book provides an empirical analysis of the history of water cooperation and negotiation by reference to the existing treaties that have been compacted between states up to the present.
As demand for fresh water rises water scarcity already figures on the national security agenda of many countries. This book provides an empirical anal...
International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward armed conflict and war, Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Dinar demonstrate that there are many examples of and mechanisms for more peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change. The authors base these arguments on both global empirical analyses and case studies. Using numerous...
International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental ch...
