Governing international watercourses : river basin organizations and the sustainable governance of internationally shared rivers and lakes / Susanne Schmeier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmeier, Susanne, author.

Series:

Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

Earthscan studies in water resource management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watershed management--International cooperation.

Watershed management.

Watershed management--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Earthscan from Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ad

Contents:

pt. 1. Theory of international river basin governance

pt. 2. The empirics of international river basin governance

pt. 3. Case studies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-25263-0

0-203-10516-8

1-283-89402-5

1-136-25264-9

9780203105160

OCLC:

823389718