Bridges over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation

Publisher: World Scientific Series on Energy and Resource Economics

Author(s): Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Stephen McCaffrey, and Daene McKinney

Date: 2007

Topics: Conflict Prevention, Cooperation, Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Renewable Resources

Countries: Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, Tibet, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines (such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics), analyzing them using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling and game theory. Case studies of particular transboundary river basins, lakes and aquifers are also considered. This is the first textbook for a relatively recent yet rapidly expanding field of study.