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Author : Mary Ellen Harris
Release : 1983
Genre : Water quality management
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Book Synopsis Interstate Cooperation in Water Resources Management by : Mary Ellen Harris
Download or read book Interstate Cooperation in Water Resources Management written by Mary Ellen Harris. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick D. Gordon
Release : 2008-10-22
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation by : Frederick D. Gordon
Download or read book Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation written by Frederick D. Gordon. This book was released on 2008-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports from the United Nations suggest that as much as forty percent of the global population could be without adequate freshwater supplies by 2015, leading some experts to predict that future wars will be fought over water rather than oil. Yet to date, most nation-states have been able to develop viable freshwater agreements to share this precious resource. Frederick D. Gordon examines how effective these accords are in sharing and redistributing water and whether they are sufficient to meet the increasing threat of water scarcity. Using an innovative ranking system, he assesses the significance of cooperation within both bilateral and multilateral accords, including the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Accords of 1993–1995, the Lesotho Highlands Water Treaty of 1986, and the 1994 Convention on Cooperation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the River Danube. Gordon identifies central factors and stakeholders that are necessary for mitigating the risk of conflict and presents a template for understanding how state behavior can manage and sustain regional water resources.
Author : Richard E. Just
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources by : Richard E. Just
Download or read book Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources written by Richard E. Just. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates what the discipline of economics has to offer as support for analyzing cooperation on management of trans-boundary water resources. It also considers what the discipline of economics has to acquire to become a more effective contributor to trans-boundary water resource management given political, legal, social, physical, scientific, and ecological realities. This book has its genesis in a symposium of the International Water and Resource Economics Consortium held at Annapolis, Maryland, April 13-16, 1997. The symposium was organized by the editors and the book contains papers presented at the symposium with subsequent revisions. The symposium brought together both economists and agency management personnel for the purpose of discussing not only how economic tools apply to trans-boundary water management, but also of identifying the obstacles to making such tools useful and informative to politicians and negotiators in public decision making roles. INTERNATIONAL VERSUS DOMESTIC TRANS-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS Trans-boundary water problems arise in many dimensions. The two most important types of problems emphasized in this book are international and domestic interstate or interregional problems. Cooperation on international problems is especially difficult because enforcement must be voluntary given the sovereignty of nations and the absence of an effective legal enforcement mechanism. Agreements must be sustainable and self-enforced if they are to have lasting benefits. Every negotiating country must be convinced it will receive benefits before it gives its consent to cooperation. In the absence of enforceable agreements, trans-boundary (i. e.
Author : Frederick D. Gordon
Release : 2008-11-13
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation by : Frederick D. Gordon
Download or read book Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation written by Frederick D. Gordon. This book was released on 2008-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines state cooperation over increasingly scarce water resources.
Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Release : 2012-10-12
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Interstate Water Compacts by : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Download or read book Interstate Water Compacts written by Joseph F. Zimmerman. This book was released on 2012-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long taken for granted, water resources are rapidly becoming a contentious issue within American politics. Continuing population growth and rapid development, coupled with environmental events such as droughts, have led to increasing water shortages in sections of the nation. In Interstate Water Compacts author Joseph F. Zimmerman highlights the growing importance of water issues within the United States and a device that has been instrumental in facilitating interstate cooperation to solve water-related problems: the interstate compact. This groundbreaking work is the first to devote itself exclusively to interstate and federal-interstate compacts pertaining to controversies including the abatement of water pollution, apportionment of river waters, economic development, flood control, inland fisheries, marine fisheries, and restoration to rivers of anadromous fish, such as salmon and shad. The process for entering into interstate and federal-interstate compacts is explained in detail, as is the exercise of original jurisdiction by the US Supreme Court to resolve intractable interstate controversies involving interpretation of provisions of compacts, water apportionment, and water pollution abatement. Zimmerman concludes by calling for the President, Congress, governors, state legislatures, and local governments to devote more attention and resources to finding solutions for water-related problems.
