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Conflict and cooperation along international waterways

Aaron T. Wolf
- 01 Apr 1998 - 
- Vol. 1, Iss: 2, pp 251-265
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In this paper, the authors investigate the reality of water conflict and draw lessons for the plausibility of future "water wars" and conclude that the more valuable lesson of international water is as a resources whose characteristics tend to induce cooperation and incite violence only in the exception.
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This article is published in Water Policy.The article was published on 1998-04-01. It has received 623 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water conflict & International trade and water.

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Water in a changing world

Robert B. Jackson, +6 more
- 01 Aug 2001 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conclude that over half of accessible fresh runoff globally is already appropriated for human use, and that more than 1 × 109 people currently lack access to clean drinking water and almost 3 ×109 people lack basic sanitation services, and because the human population will grow faster than increases in the amount of available fresh water, per capita availability of fresh water will decrease in the coming century.
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Entering an era of water scarcity: the challenges ahead.

Sandra Postel
- 01 Aug 2000 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a global effort to ensure that freshwater ecosystems receive the quantity, quality, and timing of flows needed for them to perform their ecological functions and to work toward a goal of doubling water productivity.
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Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region

K. Voss, +7 more
- 01 Feb 2013 - 
TL;DR: Observations from the GRACE satellite mission are used to evaluate freshwater storage trends in the north-central Middle East, including portions of the Tigris and Euphrates River Basins and western Iran, from January 2003 to December 2009 to indicate that groundwater losses are the major source of this trend.
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Current state of knowledge regarding the world’s wetlands and their future under global climate change: a synthesis

Wolfgang J. Junk, +8 more
- 01 Jan 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the current ecological situation and the use of the wetlands in major regions of the world in the context of global climate change and provided a synthesis of the findings and recommendations for sustainable use and protection of these important ecosystems.
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International waters: identifying basins at risk

Aaron T. Wolf, +2 more
- 01 Feb 2003 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess all reported events of either conflict or cooperation between nations over water resources during the last 50 years and use these events to inform the identification of basins at greatest risk of political stress in the near future.
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Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases

Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
- 22 Jan 1994 - 
TL;DR: Within the next fifty years, the planet's human population will probably pass nine billion, and global economic output may quintuple Largely as a result, scarcities of renewable resources will increase sharply The total area of high-quality agricultural land will drop, as will the extent of forests and the number of species they sustain this paper.
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Water and Conflict: Fresh Water Resources and International Security

Peter H. Gleick
- 22 Jan 1993 - 
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The massive water scarcity now threatening Africa - why isn't it being addressed?

Falkenmark M
- 01 Jan 1989 - 
TL;DR: Continual population growth in Africa cause water consumption levels to go so high that many countries have already reached the water stress level and many engineers and economists do not accept the existence of water barrier.
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Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability

Norman Myers
TL;DR: Myers, a widely published professional conservationist, brings together seven regional case studies and five global case studies to support his thesis that 'environmental problems will likely become predominant causses of conflict in the decades ahead' as discussed by the authors.

Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict

F I Thomas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of an international research project guided by this agenda, and present several general findings of this research that led them to revise the original hypotheses.