International water scarcity and variability : managing resource use across political boundaries /

"International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholarship tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward war, Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Din...

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Main Authors: Dinar, Shlomi (Author), Dinar, Ariel, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the debate on climate change and water security
  • Theory of scarcity-variability, conflict, and cooperation
  • Emergence of cooperation under scarcity and variability
  • Institutions and the stability of cooperative arrangements under scarcity and variability
  • Incentives to cooperate : political and economic instruments
  • Evidence-how do basin riparian countries cope with water scarcity and variability
  • Conclusion and policy implications.