Current and future transboundary water cooperation over the YarlungZangbo/Brahmaputra River basin: from an interdisciplinary perspective

• Published in: Water policy Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 1107 - 1128
• Main Author: He, Yanmei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford IWA Publishing 01.10.2021
• Subjects: Cooperation; Coordination; Dam construction; Data retrieval; Diplomacy; Disputes; Economic growth; Economics; Hydroelectric power; Hydrology; Institutionalization; Interdisciplinary aspects; International agreements; International cooperation; Policies; Political factors; preventive diplomacy; riparian activities; river basin organization; River basins; Rivers; Social change; Social progress; State; sustainability; Sustainable development; Transboundary waters; trust building; Water; Water diversion; Water resources; Water rights; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Brahmaputra River; China; Bay of Bengal; Nepal; India; South Asia

While all riparian states in the YarlungZangbo/Brahmaputra River basin have conducted or planned dam-building, water diversion or other water-related activities to meet their respective national policy goals, they are also undertaking fragmented cooperation to solve conflicts and disputes as they ar...