Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation (Series on Energy and Resource Economics): 3

Ariel Dinar; Shlomi Dinar; Stephen McCaffrey; Daene McKinney

ISBN 10: 981256893X ISBN 13: 9789812568939

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

"Bridges over Water" places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines (such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics), analyzing them using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling and game theory. Case studies of particular transboundary river basins, lakes and aquifers are also considered. This is the first textbook for a relatively recent yet rapidly expanding field of study.

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Review:

Is it true that water scarcity must lead to conflict? Might it not lead to cooperation instead? How can conflict be avoided? How can cooperation be promoted? This new book provides the answers to these questions or, if not the answers, the means for finding the answers. It fills a large gap in the literature and will, I predict, become the standard text in this important field. --Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

No other book known heretofore presents such a wide and deep coverage of water issues as this book has done. No other book has gone through such a comprehensive analysis of the professional, technical, political and legal aspects of water and international water as the authors of this book have collectively done. The combination of their talents and impressive track records and backgrounds has produced a book that is unique in the literature on water. McCaffrey has outdone his excellent previous works and so have the Dinars and McKinney. I congratulate each one of them, and thank them for this precious contribution. The book is so valuable that it is a must for ALL water and environment professionals, students and academicians. It is also a must for political science and public policy students and practitioners --Munther J Haddadin, Author and Professor of Water Resources, former Minister of Water and Irrigation, Senior, Jordanian Negotiator and Head of Water Negotiating Team, Middle East Peace Process

The detailed case studies of four major Asian river basins are thoughtful and thorough. With coverage of the Mekong, Ganges, and Indus River Basins, and the Aral Sea Basin, the reader appreciates the repeated applicability of this book's conceptual foundations. In addition to political complexities, the significance of geography, history, alternative uses, and hydrologic details become immediately apparent in reading the case studies ... this book is a valuable introductory survey of the political economy of international water, grounded in serious and substantial case studies. --American Journal of Agricultural Economics

About the Author:

Ariel Dinar is a Lead Economist at the World Bank, specializing in water resource economics, and an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he teaches a graduate course in International Water at the International Policies Program. He is a member of the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program, and the Vice Chair of the University of California Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy. He co-edited a special issue of the journal International Negotiation on Negotiating in International Watercourses in 2000, edited a special issue of the journal Water Resource Research on Transboundary Water Conflict and Cooperation in 2004, and co-authored The Institutional Economics of Water published by Edward Elgar in 2004. Shlomi Dinar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and Geography at Florida International University, where he teaches a course on environment and security. In the Summer of 2004 he was a fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria where he worked on the issue of water agreements and international negotiation. He co-edited a special issue of the journal International Negotiation on Negotiating in International Watercourses in 2000 and has published articles in professional journals and book chapters on issues related to water, conflict, cooperation, and negotiation. His book titled International Water Treaties: Negotiation and Cooperation along Transboundary Rivers will be published by Routledge in 2007. Stephen McCaffrey is a Professor at the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, Sacramento California where he teaches a course on international water law and is Director of the JSD program in International Water Resources Law. He was a special rapporteur for the work of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. The ILC's draft formed the basis of the 1997 UN Convention on the same subject. Prof McCaffrey represented Slovakia before the International Court of Justice in a case against Hungary concerning the Danube. He is the author of a treatise on The Law of International Watercourses published by Oxford University Press in 2001, in addition to other books and numerous scholarly articles. Daene McKinney is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches courses on water resources planning and management and transboundary water resources. He served as a water resources adviser to several countries in Central Asia, where he helped in planning and managing transboundary rivers. Professor McKinney is a member of the Committee to Review the IJC Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Study of the National Academies of Science, National Research Council, Water Science and Technology Board. He also serves as the editor of the Journal of Water Resource Planning and Management.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 981256893X
• ISBN 13: 9789812568939
• Binding: Product Bundle
• Number of pages: 468