Implications of hydro-political dependency for international water cooperation and conflict : insights from new data

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
The AA examine the implications of hydro-political dependency for international water cooperation and conflict through insights from new data. To do so, they develop a new geo-spatial dataset for water catchments worldwide. They discuss the measurement concepts , illustrate how dependencies are distributed worldwide, and revisits three prominent quantitative studies on the issue to show how using improved data affects empirical findings. In contrast to a very popular presumption, upstream–downstream dependencies turn out to have a very small to insignificant effect on international water cooperation or conflict.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Political geography, issn : 0962-6298, 2014, vol. 42, p. 23-33, nombre de pages : 11

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann