Governing the Great Transnational River Systems: An Introductory Word

A large proportion of the world's population depends existentially on the water (and waterpower) of one or more of the globe's major transnational river systems. By virtue of its transnational flow, each system has acquired a set of intergovernmental understandings varying in formality and...

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Published inGlobal governance Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 277 - 278
Main Author Farer, Tom
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Brill | Nijhoff 01.04.2013
Lynn Rienner Publishers
Brill
Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
Subjects
Competition
Discourse
Institutionalization
International Security
Morality
Peace
Population
Rivers
Special Focus
Threat
Threats
Transnationalism
Water
Water management
World Population
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Summary:A large proportion of the world's population depends existentially on the water (and waterpower) of one or more of the globe's major transnational river systems. By virtue of its transnational flow, each system has acquired a set of intergovernmental understandings varying in formality and degree of institutionalization and subject to ongoing practice and discourse. For the most part, those understandings have sufficiently structured discourse and practice to keep competition for water from becoming headline threats to international peace and security. This relatively felicitous condition seems unlikely to endure principally in the Global South where three powerful forces are bound to impose increasingly severe strains on the extant understandings. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:1075-2846
1942-6720
DOI:10.1163/19426720-01902007