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  • Future bottlenecks in international river basins: where transboundary institutions, population growth and hydrological variability intersect

    Year: 2017

    Collections: Research Paper

    Topics: Water, Transboundary cooperation

    Authors: Marloes H.N. Bakker, James A. Duncan

    Countries:

    Source: Water International

    Using global data, this article examines the nexus of transboundary flood events and future social vulnerability. Which international river basins are forecast to experience an increase in both hydrological variability and population in the future, but currently lack institutional provisions to deal with these shared events?


    Transboundary Water Resources Conflict Analysis Using Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: A Case Study—Harirud River

    Year: 2021

    Collections: Research Paper

    Topics: Water, Water law, Water Security, Transboundary cooperation, Hydropolitics

    Authors: Abdulsalam Amini, Hamidreza Jafari, Bahram Malekmohammadi, Touraj Nasrabadi

    Countries: Iran Turkmenistan, Afghanistan,

    Source: Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

    The present paper aims to analyze, using the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR), a game theory model, the conflict between the three countries regarding the utilization of the water resources of the border river, Harirud. To this purpose, first, the current state of the conflict was investigated.


    Bilateral Delimitation of the Caspian Sea and the Exclusion of Third Parties

    Year: 2010

    Collections: Research Paper

    Topics: Water, Water law, Water diplomacy, Transboundary Water Resources, Transboundary cooperation

    Authors: Ilias Bantekas

    Countries:

    Source: The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

    This article discusses the position of the littoral States of the body of water known as the Caspian Sea (hereinafter ‘the Caspian’), particularly on the basis of their numerous bilateral treaties and unilateral statements of action, with respect to the legal status and sui generis regimes of the Caspian.


    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: Climate, Irrigation, IWRM, Water governance

    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.


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