River basin organizations in water diplomacy /

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Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
©2021
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Global institutions
Global institutions series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12623752
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Other authors / contributors:Kittikhoun, Anoulak, editor.
Schmeier, Susanne, editor.
ISBN:9780429266270
0429266278
9780429556777
0429556772
9780429565717
0429565712
9780429561245
0429561245
9780367218133
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anoulak Kittikhoun is a political scientist, strategist and planner who has worked for a national government, a think tank, the United Nations, and a major river basin organization. As chief strategy and partnership officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat, he leads the organization's work on strategic planning and policy, international cooperation, communication and stakeholder engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational development. Susanne Schmeier is an expert on the legal and institutional dimensions of natural resources governance, with a particular focus on shared water resources. She works for IHE Delft - Institute for Water Education, where her work focuses on research, capacity development and advisory services relating to conflict and cooperation over shared natural resources, international environmental and water law and water governance. Prior to joining IHE Delft, she worked for various international organization and national governments. She has published extensively on shared water resources governance and in particular river basin organizations.
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Other form:Print version: River basin organizations in water diplomacy Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9780367218133
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Do river basin organizations make a difference in water diplomacy and conflict management? / Anoulak Kittikhoun and Susanne Schmeier
  • The legal role and context of river basin organizations / Owen McIntyre
  • Water diplomacy and collaborative governance in the Great Lakes Basin / Victoria Pebbles
  • Water diplomacy and shared resources along the United States-Mexico border / Maria Elena Giner and Gabriel E. Eckstein
  • Process aspects of the development of shared waters agreements : the Columbia River Treaty / Kim Ogren and Aaron T. Wolf
  • International river basin organizations and benefit sharing arrangements in the Columbia and Senegal international river basins : past, present, and future / Richard Kyle Paisley, Riley T. Denoon, and Marguerite de Chaisemartin
  • The Niger Basin : is development raising the stakes of cooperation? / Luca Ferrini
  • Water diplomacy and conflict transformation in the Nile River Basin : the key role of the Nile Basin Initiative over the past 20 years / Ana Elisa Cascão, Wubalem Fekade, Malte Grossmann, and Abdulkarim Seid
  • Managing abundance : CICOS and the Congo / Tobias von Lossow
  • Water diplomacy in the absence of a river basin organization : a case study in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine / Samer A. Talozi and Natasha Westheimer
  • Water diplomacy in the Helmand River Basin : exploring the obstacles to cooperation within the shadow of anarchy / Mohsen Nagheeby and Alistair Rieu-Clarke
  • Prolonging or resolving water conflicts in Central Asia? The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea / Jenniver Sehring and Saghit Ibatullin
  • The Mekong River Commission as a water diplomat / Anoulak Kittikhoun and Denise Michèle Staubli
  • China in international institutions for water governance / Lei Xie and Zha Daojiong
  • Managing disagreements in European basins : what role for river basin organizations in water diplomacy? / Susanne Schmeier and Ivan Zavadsky
  • Conclusion: Managing tensions and sharing benefits : international rivers in conflict and cooperation / David Grey, Anoulak Kittikhoun, and Susanne Schmeier.