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International waters: identifying basins at risk
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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.About:
This article is published in Water Policy.The article was published on 2003-02-01. It has received 502 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Structural basin & Water conflict.read more
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Climate change and mountain water resources: overview and recommendations for research, management and policy
Daniel Viviroli,Daniel Viviroli,D.R. Archer,Wouter Buytaert,Hayley J. Fowler,Gregory B. Greenwood,Alan F. Hamlet,Y Huang,G Koboltschnig,M I Litaor,Juan I. López-Moreno,Simon Lorentz,Bruno Schädler,Bruno Schädler,Hans Schreier,K Schwaiger,Mathias Vuille,Ross Woods +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the state of knowledge in water resources from a highland-lowland viewpoint, focusing on mountain areas on the one hand and the adjacent lowland area on the other hand, and concluded that effective management of mountain water resources urgently requires more detailed regional studies and more reliable scenario projections.
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Transboundary water interaction I: reconsidering conflict and cooperation
Mark Zeitoun,Naho Mirumachi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the examination of either conflict or cooperation, refutes the reality of the vast majority of contexts where cooperation and conflict actually co-exist, and perpetuates the paradigm that any conflict is "bad" and that all forms of cooperation are "good".
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Shared Waters: Conflict and Cooperation
TL;DR: In this paper, a review examines the state of conflict and cooperation over transboundary water resources from an environmental, political, and human development perspective and provides evidence on the potential costs of noncooperation or even conflict over water resources.
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Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population
TL;DR: Hudson and den Boer as discussed by the authors argue that high male-to-female ratios often trigger domestic and international violence and that countries with high male tofemale ratios also tend to develop authoritarian political systems.
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Conflict and cooperation over international freshwater resources: Indicators of basins at risk
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify historical indicators of international freshwater conflict and cooperation and create a framework to identify and evaluate international river basins at potential risk for future conflict, including water quantity, water quality, joint management, and hydropower.
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Water and Conflict: Fresh Water Resources and International Security
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Conflict and cooperation along international waterways
TL;DR: 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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The massive water scarcity now threatening Africa - why isn't it being addressed?
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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International River Basins of the World
TL;DR: The Register of International Rivers as mentioned in this paper was updated in order to reflect the quantum changes that have taken place over the last 22 years, both in global geopolitics and in map coverage and technology.
Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict
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.
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