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Оценка состояния горных пород основания и бортов плотины Шах-и-Арус современными методами

Year: 2018

Collections: Scientific Publications

Topics: Water

Authors: Заряб Абдулхалим, Жапарханов С. Ж.

Countries: Afghanistan

Source: Central Asian Journal of Water Research

Water diplomacy and conflict management in the Mekong: from rivalries to cooperation

Year: 2018

Collections: Research Paper

Topics: Water governance, Water diplomacy, Hydropower

Authors: Denise Michèle Staubli Anoulak Kittikhoun,

Countries:

Source: Journal of Hydrology

The Mekong region, home to one of the world’s great rivers – the Mekong – is also one of the world’s most geostrategic regions, featuring seemingly conflicting interests among regional states including Viet Nam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia and world powers such as China and the United States of America.

For nearly a century, some of the riparian states have developed parts of the basin in their territories – to great benefits and harm – and recently the remaining late developing countries are catching up with water and related resources development plans to dam, withdraw and use the mighty Mekong to fund national progress and alleviate poverty.

World leaders, academics, NGOs, media and even some government officials have warned that the current rush to development is not only bringing a sure death to a great previously untamed river, potentially displacing millions of people, and threatening livelihoods, but would also usher in an era of aggravated tensions and possibly even conflict. The Mekong River Commission (MRC), tasked to manage the river for the sake of the environment and the people, is failing its mission with work that has been ineffective, uninfluential and wasted, critics say.

The political economy of water insecurity in Central Asia given the Belt and Road initiative

Year: 2018

Collections: Scientific Publications

Topics: Water, Sustainable Development

Authors: Martens Patrick

Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

Source: Central Asian Journal of Water Research

Finland’s cooperation in managing transboundary waters and the UNECE Principles for Effective Joint Bodies: Value for water diplomacy?

Year: 2018

Collections: Scientific Publications, Review article

Topics: Water, Water diplomacy

Authors: Tuula Honkonen, Annukka Lipponen

Countries:

Source: Journal of Hydrology

This paper analyses Finland’s cooperation arrangements in the light of the Principles and assesses the extent to which Finland’s transboundary water commissions reflect the good practices specified in the Principles. Taking a wider perspective, the paper also examines the elements of the principles and their practical realisation with a view to understanding better their promotion of water diplomacy. Relevant features include, inter alia, the competency and representation of the joint institution, its accountability and the extent to which public participation is permitted, and the cooperative mechanisms in place.

International water law for transboundary aquifers – a global perspective

Year: 2018

Collections: Research Paper

Topics: Water, Water law

Authors: Stephan Raya Marina

Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan

Source: Central Asian Journal of Water Research

Multi-track water diplomacy: current and potential future cooperation over the Brahmaputra River Basin

Year: 2018

Collections: Scientific Publications, Review article

Topics: Water, Water diplomacy

Authors: Yumiko Yasuda, Douglas Hill, Dipankar Aich, Patrick Huntjens, Ashok Swain

Countries:

Source: Water International

This article analyzes key factors affecting transboundary water cooperation in the Brahmaputra River basin at multiple scales. The analysis of multi-track diplomacy reaffirms the potential of actor-inclusive approaches, arguing for a need to go beyond purely focusing on formal legal norms and consider the possibilities of cultural norms of informal processes of cooperation. Various ‘windows of opportunity’ exist in the current phase of the Brahmaputra basin’s development, leading to exploration of a Zone of Possible Effective Cooperation, arising from the effort to scale up multi-track initiatives as well as broader geo-politicaleconomic changes happening across and beyond the basin.

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