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  • Manual and Guideline of Water Assessment in Central Asia

    Year: 2025

    Collections: Manuals

    Topics: Water, IWRM

    Authors: Kogutenko Larissa, Safiya Asalbekova, Michael Walther

    Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

    Source: Journal of MOLARE Research Centre (MRC)

    Why water monitoring and assessment are important?

    Water quality assessment is one of the crucial scientific and practical analyses to identify the possibility of water consumption for different human needs and nature/ecosystem conservation for future generations. Water quality can be measured and monitored in rivers, springs, creeks, swamps, estuaries, wetlands and lakes what is called aquatic systems. Quality parameters, such as biological, chemical and physical indicators identify the combination of values that influence the composition of water. Monitoring and comparison of different water habitats (macro invertebrates) in biological monitoring provides an information of water quality and allows to make a quick assessment.

    Long- and short-term determinants of water user cooperation: Experimental evidence from Central Asia

    Year: 2018

    Collections: Research Paper

    Topics: Water governance, IWRM, Transboundary cooperation Irrigation,

    Authors: Iroda Amirova, Martin Petrick, Nodir Djanibekov

    Countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

    Source: World Development

    This study contributes to the understanding of long- and short-term determinants of cooperation among water users. We experimentally investigate the potential of water users’ self-governance in enhancing their contributions to a common pool as opposed to external regulation. Our focus is on the irrigated areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

    Climate change and international water conflict in Central Asia

    Year: 2012

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    Topics: Water, Climate, NEXUS, Hydropolitics

    Authors: Thomas Bernauer, Tobias Siegfried

    Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

    Source: Journal of Peace Research

    The authors engage in a critical assessment of the neo-malthusian claim that climatic changes can be an important source of international tensions, in the extreme even militarized interstate disputes.

    Adapting Agricultural Water Use to Climate Change in a Post-Soviet Context: Challenges and Opportunities in Southeast Kazakhstan

    Year: 2017

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    Topics: Water governance Climate, IWRM, Irrigation,

    Authors: Tristam Barrett, Giuseppe Feola, Marina Khusnitdinova, Viktoria Krylova

    Countries: Kazakhstan

    Source: Human Ecology

    The convergence of climate change and post-Soviet socio-economic and institutional transformations has been underexplored so far, as have the consequences of such convergence on crop agriculture in Central Asia. This paper provides a place-based analysis of constraints and opportunities for adaptation to climate change, with a specific focus on water use, in two districts in southeast Kazakhstan.

    Water and Energy Issues in the Context of International and Political Disputes in Central Asia

    Year: 2013

    Collections: Research Paper

    Topics: Water, Transboundary Water Resources, Transboundary cooperation, Hydropower

    Authors: Sanat Kushkumbayev, Azina Kushkumbayeva

    Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

    Source: Chinese Journal of International Law

    This paper discusses the failure of past regional and sub-regional treaties to resolve these ossifying conflicts of interest, and explains that only a truly multilateral convention might allow these nations to collectively determine a way forward which satisfies all parties.

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