This volume exposes the colossal implications that valuation of
water resources has in providing an explanation to transboundary
water disputes. By challenging the "scarcity induces disputes"
contention, the volume proposes that the potential cause of dispute
over transboundary waters is not physical scarcity of water, but
the way in which "scarcity" is being valued by co-riparians. This
is being referred here as the "scarcity value" of water. Based on
neoclassical economic theory, "scarcity value" has been defined as
the value that could have been generated if the ceiling on water
availability in the water scarce economies is relaxed by a unit.
Under scarce conditions, the value is not generated, and hence the
name. It is merely this feeling of deprivation due to scarcity that
causes the discontentment among the competing stakeholders of
transboundary waters, and compels them to react, thereby leading to
water conflicts. In this book, this contention has been empirically
validated with the cases of disputes over water sharing over
Cauvery River in south India, and over Colorado River in the
western part of US.
General
Imprint: |
VDM Verlag
|
Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
September 2009 |
First published: |
September 2009 |
Authors: |
Nilanjan Ghosh
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-639-17959-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
|
LSN: |
3-639-17959-5 |
Barcode: |
9783639179590 |
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