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Governing International Watercourses

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River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes

Governing International Watercourses

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Governing International Watercourses book

River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes
BySusanne Schmeier
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 18 December 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203105160
Pages 368
eBook ISBN 9780203105160
Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Law, Politics & International Relations
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Schmeier, S. (2012). Governing International Watercourses: River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203105160

ABSTRACT

This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all River Basin Organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents. The detailed case studies are the Senegal (West Africa), Mekong (South-east Asia) and Danube (Europe) rivers. 

The book contributes to the academic debate on how shared natural and environmental resources can be managed in a sustainable way and which institutional and legal mechanisms actually matter for doing so. It adopts the neo-institutionalist approach, according to which international environmental institutions do make a difference. The analysis not only confirms this argument for the specific case of shared water resources, but also refines existing hypotheses on the influence of different independent variables, namely the nature of the collective action problem, the constellation of actors and the institutional design of an international environmental institution. 

The work also contributes to the policy debate on how to better govern internationally shared natural resources and the environment. It provides policy makers with advice on which exogenous conditions to be aware of when managing water resources they share with co-riparians and which institutional design features and governance mechanisms to set up in order to increase effectiveness in management.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction: governing international watercourses effectively

part |2 pages

Part I Theory of international river basin governance

chapter 2|40 pages

Building a theory of river basin governance effectiveness

part |2 pages

Part II The empirics of international river basin governance

chapter 3|54 pages

River Basin Organizations around the world

part |2 pages

Part III Case studies

chapter 4|52 pages

The Mekong River Basin and the MRC: continuous cooperation in spite of adverse conditions

chapter 5|46 pages

The Danube River Basin and the ICPDR: strong achievements by a narrow institution

chapter 6|52 pages

The Senegal River Basin and the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal (OMVS): benign conditions, deficient effectiveness

chapter 7|4 pages

Conclusion

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