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China's International Transboundary Rivers

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China's International Transboundary Rivers book

Politics, Security and Diplomacy of Shared Water Resources

China's International Transboundary Rivers

DOI link for China's International Transboundary Rivers

China's International Transboundary Rivers book

Politics, Security and Diplomacy of Shared Water Resources
ByLei Xie, Jia Shaofeng
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 6 December 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537900
Pages 232 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315537900
SubjectsArea Studies, Development Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Law, Politics & International Relations
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Xie, L., Shaofeng, J. (2018). China's International Transboundary Rivers. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537900

China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect China’s relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia.

Since China is an upstream state on most of its shared transboundary rivers, the country’s international water policy is at the core of Asia’s water security. These water disputes have had strong implications for China’s interstate relations, and also influenced its international water policy alongside domestic concerns over water resource management.

This book investigates China’s policy responses to domestic water crises and examines China’s international water policy as well as its strategy in dealing with international cooperation. The authors describe the key elements of water diplomacy in Asia which demonstrate varying degrees of effectiveness of environmental agreements. It shows how China has established various institutional arrangements with neighbouring countries, primarily in the form of bilateral agreements over hydrological data exchange. Detailed case studies are included of the Mekong, Brahmaputra, Ili and Amur rivers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|22 pages

China’s transboundary rivers: politics, diplomacy and security

An introduction
ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 2|20 pages

The governance of water resources in China

ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 3|24 pages

China’s policy over international rivers

Perception and diplomatic practices
ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 4|23 pages

Theoretical debate

Water diplomacy
ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 5|24 pages

South-East Asia

China’s water diplomacy on the Mekong River
ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 6|23 pages

South Asia

China’s evolving attitude over the GBM
ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 7|23 pages

Central Asia

Sino-Kazakh water diplomacy on the Ili and Irtysh Rivers
ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 8|23 pages

North-East Asia

Sino-Russian cooperation over the Amur River
ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 9|23 pages

Comparison and conclusions

ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia

chapter 10|11 pages

Policy recommendations

ByLei Xie, Shaofeng Jia
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