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Topic: Water governance

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  • The Multi-track Water Diplomacy Framework A Legal and Political Economy Analysis for Advancing Cooperation over Shared Waters

    Year: 2016

    Collections: Scientific Publications, Research Paper, Review article, Concept paper

    Topics: Water, Sustainable Development, IWRM, Water law, Water diplomacy, Water governance

    Authors: Patrick Huntjens, Yumiko Yasuda, Ashok Swain, Rens de Man, Bjørn-Oliver Magsig, Shafiqul Islam

    Countries: N/A

    Source: The Hague Institute for Global Justice

    This publication is part of the project Water Diplomacy: Making Water Cooperation Work, led by The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in collaboration with Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), UNESCO Category II Centre for International Water Cooperation (ICWC), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Uppsala University, University of Otago, University College Cork and Tufts University Water Diplomacy Program.


    Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy

    Year: 2025

    Collections: Books

    Topics: Water, Climate, Sustainable Development, Management, Water diplomacy, Water governance Gender, IWRM, Agriculture, Irrigation,

    Authors: Shafiqul Islam, Kevin Smith, Martina Klimes, Aaron Salzberg

    Countries: N/A

    Source: Routledge

    The Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy is a comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing water diplomacy – a framework for building relationships, negotiating shared interests, and managing complex water challenges across physical, political, and societal boundaries.


    Exploring 100 Years of Finnish Transboundary Water Interactions With Russia: An Historical Analysis of Diplomacy and Cooperation

    Year: 2022

    Collections: Scientific Publications, Review article

    Topics: Water, Water governance Water diplomacy,

    Authors: Juho Haapala, Marko Keskinen

    Countries:

    Source: Water Alternatives, 15(1), 93-128

    This study combines the strengths of historical studies and analytical approaches on transboundary water interactions to establish an historical process perspective on transboundary waters. The study analytically separates transboundary water cooperation, water diplomacy, and their broader political setting, and analyses their interplay over a long period of time. The paper presents a detailed case study on the development and transformation of Finnish-Russian transboundary water interactions over the last 100 years, with an emphasis on Finland and its relationship with the Soviet Union/Russia after World War II.


    International River Basin Organizations, Science, and Hydrodiplomacy

    Year: 2020

    Collections: Scientific Publications, Review article

    Topics: Water, Water governance Water diplomacy,

    Authors: Anita Milman, Andrea K. Gerlak

    Countries:

    Source: Environmental Science and Policy 107, 137–149

    This paper examines the production and use of science by three IRBOs: the (US – Canada) International Joint Commission, the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River, and the Mekong River Commission. We find the science produced by the IRBOs to support hydrodiplomacy extends beyond measuring and monitoring to include more advanced and analytical forms of science.


    The Rise of Hydro-Diplomacy: Strengthening foreign policy for transboundary waters

    Year: 2014

    Collections: Scientific Publications, Reports, Review article

    Topics: Water diplomacy, Water, Water law, Water governance

    Authors: Benjamin Pohl, et al.

    Countries:

    Source: Adelphi

    Water is a fundamental precondition for human life. No substitute for freshwater exists, and it is scarce in many regions. Simultaneously, much of it transcends state borders via shared river and lake basins or groundwater aquifers. The resulting political, economic, social and environmental interdependencies give water resources the crucial potential to either foster cooperation or exacerbate conflict. The significance of access to water is growing as demographic and economic drivers as well as deteriorating water quality interact with climate change that will regionally increase water scarcity and variability.


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