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  • 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.


    River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy

    Year: 2020

    Collections: Books

    Topics: Water, Sustainable Development, Irrigation, IWRM, NEXUS, Water law, Water diplomacy, Water governance, Transboundary Water Resources, Water Security

    Authors: Anoulak Kittikhoun, Susanne Schmeier

    Countries:

    Source: Routledge

    River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy explores the role of River Basin Organizations (RBOs) in preventing and resolving conflicts related to transboundary water resources. Through a comparative analysis of international river basins, the book examines how institutional mechanisms, legal frameworks, and diplomatic tools promote cooperation among states and support the sustainable management of shared water resources.


    Empowering women in water diplomacy: a basic mapping of the challenges in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan

    Year: 2018

    Collections: Research Paper

    Topics: Water diplomacy, Gender, IWRM, Water Security

    Authors: Natasha Carmi, Mey Alsayegh, Maysoon Zoubi

    Countries:

    Source: Journal of Hydrology

    Until now, limited attention has been afforded to the role of, and challenges faced by, women involved in water diplomacy. In addition to research being at an early stage, it is mainly focused on addressing the challenges imposed by gender inequality. Thus very few applicable policy recommendations have emerged in this field to date.

    This paper will explore and identify current challenges that face the women interested in attaining high level positions in water diplomacy, in three Arab countries in which hydropolitics prevails, including Jordan, Lebanon and the State of Palestine. Female experts working on water-related issues were surveyed and interviewed to ascertain key qualitative issues, perceptions and various challenges.


    Informal water diplomacy and power: A case of seeking water security in the Mekong River basin

    Year: 2020

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    Topics: Water diplomacy, Water, IWRM, Transboundary Water Resources, Hydropolitics

    Authors: Naho Mirumachi

    Countries:

    Source: Environmental Science and Policy

    Water diplomacy is regarded as a means to prevent conflict and to enhance peace through the cooperative management of transboundary water resources. There have been calls for water diplomacy to be given further attention, especially by foreign policy and security specialists, and to be extended to non-state actors through informal dialogue processes. The paper critically questions the qualitative changes water diplomacy delivers and argues for further analytical scrutiny on its efficacy. Using a critical hydropolitics perspective, the paper advances understanding of the way power asymmetries presiding over contested waters are altered or maintained, particularly through informal diplomacy.


    A state‑of‑the‑art review of water diplomacy

    Year: 2021

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    Topics: Climate, Sustainable Development, IWRM, Water diplomacy, Transboundary Water Resources, Water Security

    Authors: Soheila Zareie, Omid Bozorg‑Haddad, Hugo A. Loáiciga

    Countries:

    Source: Environment, Development and Sustainability

    Diplomacy is the art and skill of managing international relations through negotiations between representatives of states or agencies. Water diplomacy is an innovative approach and strategic tool to resolve water issues at local and trans-boundary scales when water conflicts rise in sharing water resources. Complex water supply and sharing issues arise from the existence of multiple stakeholders such as agriculture, industry, urban and domestic users, environmental use, and others competing for scarce water. Water diplomacy may contribute to solving a variety of water conflicts and in this sense is a tool for sustainable water resources management.


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