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Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy, 11
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Trans-boundary water resources are often a cause of conflict among
riparian entities. Increasing demand for water resources and
deterioration of existing water sources underscore the need to
resolve conflicts over the allocation of consumption and pollution
rights among conflicting uses and users. Because economic growth of
the entities that share a water resource depends on sustainability
of the resource, water has great potential as a basis for
cooperation among political entities. However, enforcement of
cooperation particularly in international settings is limited.
Thus, parties sharing a water resource will form and remain in a
cooperating coalition only when economic incentives for each can be
identified. This book offers an economic approach to resolution of
conflicts by identifying economic mechanisms that encourage
sustainable cooperation. The book includes discussions on
international, interstate, and intrastate disputes regarding both
water quantity and water quality issues. It presents mechanisms for
facilitating cooperation among users from agricultural, industrial,
domestic, and environmental sectors.It considers the experience and
potential in many regions around the world including Australia (the
Muray-Darling Basin), Latin America (Chile), the Middle East
(Israel and the Palestinian Authority), the U.S. (California,
Florida's Everglades, Hawaii, and the Chesapeake Bay), and Africa
(South Africa, Lesotho). Part I of the book discusses international
experience in forming water coalitions and offers an illustrative
model of water quality coalitions. It emphasizes the dependence of
sustainability of international agreements on the practical ability
to create incentives through economic mechanisms and political
linkages that overcome the problem of limited enforcement due to
sovereignty claims. Part II of the book discusses management of
intrastate U.S. water resources involving competing local
jurisdictions or user groups and the U.S. and Australian attempts
to facilitate state management of interstate water resources
through federal cooperation. Part III of the book explores the
expanding scope of trans-boundary water resource issues that
contribute to complexity of conflict beyond traditional interests
such as allocation and navigation rights.In particular, it analyzes
the economic implications of nutrient, land, and airshed management
in an environment where the interaction of trans-boundary water
resources with the ecological system is considered. Trans-boundary
water usage and infrastructure are discussed in the context of
privatization and political uncertainty. Part IV of the book
examines economic solutions to trans-boundary water allocation
including water markets, tradable water permits, contractual
arrangements, and coordinated management. The interaction between
ground and surface water and the interaction between desalinated,
recycled, and fresh water is analyzed in the context of optimal
water allocation. The book concludes with a critical discussion of
the role and potential of the economics profession in contributing
to conflict resolution and management of trans-boundary water
resources. The strengths and weaknesses of economic analysis are
discussed with special consideration of the modern tools of
bargaining theory and game theory that go beyond economic
efficiency in considering political realities.
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