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The strategy and methodology for improved IWRM project, (STRIVER)
has developed interdisciplinary methods to assess and implement
IWRM. Based on the development of a multidisciplinary knowledge
base assessment in all case studies (policy, social and natural
sciences) and an early stage development of IWRM conceptual
framework, this book investigates IWRM in the four selected twinned
catchments covering six countries in Europe and Asia. Twinning
activities based on a problem-based approach have been performed in
four case river basins: Tunga Bahdra (2 states in India), Sesan
(Vietnam/Cambodia), Glomma (Norway), Tejo/Tagus (Spain/Portugal).
The problems covered are water regimes in transboundary regulated
rivers; environmental flow; land and water use interaction; and
pollution under the IWRM framework. The research used sub-basins of
each river basin in all cases to allow more detailed studies and
easier integration of all stakeholders, for transferability
purposes. Integrating Water Resources Management develops
guidelines for interdisciplinary methods to assess and implement
IWRM assesses the transferability of case study results enhances
the dialogue between decision-makers, stakeholders and scientists
disseminates data and information to stakeholders to promote
participatory planning and integrated decision-making, taking
adequate account of the rights of poor people and gender roles More
information about the book can be found on the Water Wiki in an
article written by the author here:
http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/IntegratingWaterResourcesManagement
At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of
States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses
- a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of
States sharing freshwater systems. Globally, there are 263
internationally shared watersheds, which drain the territories of
145 countries and represent more than forty percent of the Earth's
land surface. Hence, inter-State cooperation towards the
sustainable management of transboundary water supplies, in
accordance with applicable international legal instruments, is a
topic of crucial importance, especially in the context of the
current global water crisis. This volume provides an assessment of
the role and relevance of the UN Watercourses Convention and
describes and evaluates its entry into force as a key component of
transboundary water governance. To date, the Convention still
requires further contracting States before it can enter into force.
The authors describe the drafting and negotiation of the Convention
and its relationship to other multilateral environmental
agreements. A series of case studies assess the role of the
Convention at various levels: regional (European Union, East
Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, Central America and South
America), river basin (e.g. the Mekong and Congo) and national
(e.g. Ethiopia and Mexico). The book concludes by proposing how
future implementation might further strengthen international
cooperation in the management of water resources, to promote
biodiversity conservation as well as sustainable and equitable use.
Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global
challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food
and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion
of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores the
pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water
enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis
for sound governance. The book reveals that significant progress
has been made in recent decades to strengthen the governance of
water resource management at different scales, including helping to
address international and sub-national conflicts over transboundary
water resources. It demonstrates that 'effective' laws and policies
are fundamental drivers for the safe, equitable and sustainable
utilization of water. However, it is also shown that what might
constitute an effective law or policy related to water resources
management is still hotly debated. As such, the handbook provides
an important and definitive reference text for all studying water
governance and management.
Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global
challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food
and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion
of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores the
pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water
enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis
for sound governance. The book reveals that significant progress
has been made in recent decades to strengthen the governance of
water resource management at different scales, including helping to
address international and sub-national conflicts over transboundary
water resources. It demonstrates that 'effective' laws and policies
are fundamental drivers for the safe, equitable and sustainable
utilization of water. However, it is also shown that what might
constitute an effective law or policy related to water resources
management is still hotly debated. As such, the handbook provides
an important and definitive reference text for all studying water
governance and management.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be
Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future
cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East
African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and
policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters,
articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD
through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities
as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global
implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam
filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision
making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing
water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling
and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and
quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and
coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book
incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent
developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract
by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment
study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational
very soon, the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis
Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of
transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications
of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water
cooperation and conflict management.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be
Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future
cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East
African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and
policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters,
articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD
through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities
as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global
implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam
filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision
making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing
water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling
and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and
quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and
coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book
incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent
developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract
by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment
study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational
very soon, the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis
Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of
transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications
of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water
cooperation and conflict management.
At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of
States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses
- a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of
States sharing freshwater systems. Globally, there are 263
internationally shared watersheds, which drain the territories of
145 countries and represent more than forty percent of the Earth's
land surface. Hence, inter-State cooperation towards the
sustainable management of transboundary water supplies, in
accordance with applicable international legal instruments, is a
topic of crucial importance, especially in the context of the
current global water crisis. This volume provides an assessment of
the role and relevance of the UN Watercourses Convention and
describes and evaluates its entry into force as a key component of
transboundary water governance. To date, the Convention still
requires further contracting States before it can enter into force.
The authors describe the drafting and negotiation of the Convention
and its relationship to other multilateral environmental
agreements. A series of case studies assess the role of the
Convention at various levels: regional (European Union, East
Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, Central America and South
America), river basin (e.g. the Mekong and Congo) and national
(e.g. Ethiopia and Mexico). The book concludes by proposing how
future implementation might further strengthen international
cooperation in the management of water resources, to promote
biodiversity conservation as well as sustainable and equitable use.
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