International water scarcity and variability : managing resource use across political boundaries / Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Dinar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinar, Shlomi, author.

Dinar, Ariel, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--International cooperation.

Water-supply.

Water security--Social aspects.

Water security.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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 Dinar prove that there are many examples of and mechanisms for more peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change. The authors base these arguments on both global empirical analyses and case studies. Using numerous examples that focus on North America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, this book asks scholars and policy makers to consider strategies and incentives to help lessen conflict and motivate cooperation under scarcity and increased variability of water resources"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dinar, Shlomi, author. International water scarcity and variability

ISBN:

9780520283077

0520283074

9780520292789

0520292782

OCLC:

950901894