Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Scarcity or Fuzzy Boundaries?
Publisher: Elsevier: Political Geography
Author(s): Nils Petter Gleditsch, Kathryn Furlong, Havard Hegre, Bethany Lacina, Taylor Owen
Date: 2006
Topics: Conflict Causes, Renewable Resources
Countries: Botswana, Israel, Jordan, Namibia
This article first reviews the water wars and fuzzy boundaries conflict scenarios.Then this article discusses a new data set based on a more complete set of river basins, and uses this dataset to take a fresh look at the relationship between shared rivers and interstate conflict. While, also including the possibility of a "resource curse" effect for water resources.