Image

Knowledge space

Center for Natural Resources and Sustainability DKU

DKU Logo
UNESCO Logo

All publications by Years

All 2025(18) 2024(30) 2023(23) 2022(30) 2021(28) 2020(27) 2019(14) 2018(36) 2017(38) 2016(9) 2015(14) 2014(2) 2013(4) 2012(2) 2010(1) 2009(1) 2008(2) 2000(1)
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.

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.

Anchoring water diplomacy – The legal nature of international river basin organizations

Year: 2018

Collections: Scientific Publications, Review article

Topics: Water, Water diplomacy

Authors: Susanne Schmeier, Zaki Shubber

Countries:

Source: Journal of Hydrology

Water diplomacy needs institutional anchoring. International River Basin Organizations (RBOs) – being the result of diplomatic efforts by riparian states intending to create a framework for cooperation between themselves over shared water bodies – can provide such institutional anchors. RBOs ensure that agreements to cooperate are turned into a long-term commitment by riparian states to jointly manage shared water resources and, in turn, foster mutually beneficial cooperation over time. RBOs have been the subject of detailed examinations of their conceptual core, of their manifold functions, of their effectiveness in achieving their goals and so forth. However, the legal nature of these entities has so far received limited attention notwithstanding its significance in empowering RBOs to act as institutional anchors for water diplomacy.

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

Water Diplomacy as an approach to regional cooperation in South Asia: A case from the Brahmaputra Basin

Year: 2018

Collections: Scientific Publications

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

Authors: Anamika Barua

Countries:

Source: Journal of Hydrology

The article examines challenges of transboundary water cooperation in the Brahmaputra River Basin shared by Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, and India. It highlights the lack of trust, information asymmetries, and absence of a regional governance framework that hinder cooperation. The authors emphasize the importance of inclusive, multi-stakeholder water diplomacy and informal dialogues as a foundation for sustainable and equitable basin-wide cooperation.

"Оценка взаимосвязи водных, энергетических, продовольственных и экосистемных ресурсов в контексте Центральной Азии" Синопсис. Правовые аспекты управления водными ресурсами (модуль 2)

Year: 2018

Collections: Manuals, Synopsis

Topics: IWRM

Authors: Януш-Павлетта Барбара, Ибатуллин Сагит, Петраков Игорь, Николаенко Александр, Ахметов Серик Кабдуалиевич

Countries: Kazakhstan

Source:

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.

For questions about cooperation, please contact us at:

Join us on social networks: