Year: 2012
Collections:
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.
Year: 2017
Collections:
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.
Year: 2020
Collections:
Topics: Water, Climate, IWRM, Water diplomacy, Transboundary Water Resources, Water Security, Hydropower
Authors: Melinda Davies, Nathanial Matthews
Countries:
Source: International Journal of Water Resources Development
The article focuses on how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) may affect water resources and water governance in Central Asia. The authors consider Central Asia as a region that already faces a complex water situation, including transboundary rivers, water scarcity, the dependence of agriculture on irrigation, the environmental problems of the Aral Sea, weak coordination between countries, and the impacts of climate change. Against this background, the development of infrastructure, industry, hydropower, and agriculture under the BRI may increase pressure on water resources.
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