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I.
Water Diplomacy
Transboundary water cooperation
The author thanks colleagues in the UNECE Water Team: Sonja Koeppel, Iulia
Trombitcaia, Alisher Mamadzhanov, Chantal Demilecamps and others.
Greater cooperation through water diplomacy and transboundary water management
In addition to the authors, we are grateful for contributions from Claire Warmenbol
and Rebecca Welling from the Global Water Programme, IUCN.
From the Dead Sea to an Israel/Palestine Water Accord: 20 years of water
diplomacy in the Middle East
1. UNESCO Makes the Case for Water Diplomacy – Press Release from the UNESCO
Website, 25/4/2012:
news/unesco_makes_the_case_for_water_diplomacy/. Accessed 15/07/2013.
2. Lawrence Susskind, Shafiqul Islam. ‘Water Diplomacy: Creating Value and
Building Trust in Trans Boundary Water Negotiations’, in: Science and
Diplomacy, Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2012).
For more information visit .
Transboundary water diplomacy in the Mekong region
For further Mekong reading, from which this chapter is drawn, see:
- Dore J and Lazarus K (2009) ‘Demarginalizing the Mekong River Commission’ in
F Molle, T Foran and M Käkönen (eds.) Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong
Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance. Earthscan, London, 357-382.
- Dore J and Lebel L (2010) ‘Deliberation and scale in Mekong Region water
governance’, Environmental Management 46:1, 60-80.
- Dore J, Lebel L and Molle F (2012) ‘A framework for analyzing transboundary
water governance complexes, illustrated in the Mekong Region’, Journal of
Hydrology 466-467, 23-36.
- ICEM (2010) MRC Strategic Environmental Assessment of Hydropower on the Mekong
Mainstream. Produced for Mekong River Commission by ICEM (International Centre
for Environmental Management).
- M-POWER (2011) M-POWER Strategic Guide 2011: Action-researchers, dialogue
facilitators, knowledge brokers. Mekong Program on Water Environment and
Resilience, Vientiane, 15.
- Save the Mekong coalition: .
The Nile Basin Initiative: Advancing transboundary cooperation and supporting
riparian communities
1. NBI Shared Vision reads: “To achieve sustainable socioeconomic development through
the equitable utilization of and benefit from the common Nile Basin Water resources”.
II.
Transboundary Water Management
Cooperation over transboundary aquifers: lessons learned from 10 years of experience
Kirstin Conti is a PhD Research Fellow with the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science
Research at University of Amsterdam and the International Groundwater Resources
Assessment Centre (IGRAC).
Transboundary water management – why it is important and why it needs to
be developed
This paper is based on and has partly been published as the background paper
prepared by Anders Jägerskog as part of UNDP Shared Waters Partnership Programme
work for the Ministerial Roundtable on Transboundary Waters at the World Water
Forum in Marseille, France, 13 March 2012.
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2. UNDP (2006), ‘Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis’,
Human Development Report (NY: UNDP).
3. Phillips, D.J.H., M. Daoudy, J. Öjendal, S. McCaffrey and A.R. Turton. (2006).
Trans-boundary Water Cooperation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and Broader
Benefit-Sharing. Stockholm: Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
4. Earle, A., Jägerskog, A. and Öjendal J., Eds., (2010) Transboundary Water
Management: Principles and Practice. Earthscan, London (July 2010).
5. Zeitoun, M and Jägerskog, A. (2011), Addressing Power Asymmetry: How
Transboundary Water Management May Serve to Reduce Poverty, Report Nr 29,
SIWI, Stockholm.
6. Zeitoun, M, and N. Mirumachi (2008) ‘Transboundary water interaction 1.
Reconsidering conflict and cooperation’. International Environmental Agreements
8: 297-316.
7. Granit, J. and Claasen, M (2009) ‘A path towards realising tangible benefits
in transboundary river basins’, in Jägerskog, A and Zeitoun, M. Getting
Transboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation,
Report Nr 25, SIWI, Stockholm.
8. Zeitoun and Mirumachi (2008) op. cit.
9. Earle, A. et al (2010) op. cit.
10. Zeitoun and Mirumachi (2008) op. cit.
11. Zeitoun, M and Jägerskog, A. (2011) op. cit.
12. Falkenmark M., and Jägerskog, A., (2010) ‘Sustainability of Transnational Water
Agreements in the Face of Socio-Economic and Environmental Change’ in Earle,
A., Jägerskog, A. and Öjendal, Eds., (2010) Transboundary Water Management:
Principles and Practice. Earthscan, London (July 2010).
13. Cotula, L. (2011), Land deals in Africa: What is in the contracts?, (London: IIED).
14. Jägerskog, A., Cascao, A., Hårsmar, M. and Kim. K., (2012), Land Acquisitions:
How Will They Impact Transboundary Waters? Report Nr. 30, SIWI, Stockholm.
15. Allan, J.A (2011), Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to Our Planet’s Most Precious
Resource (London: I.B.Tauris).
16. Mekong 2 Rio Message:
Mekong2Rio-Message.pdf.
17. Nicol, A., van Steenbergen, F. et al., Transboundary Water Management as an
International Public Good, Development Financing 2000 Study 2001:1 (Stockholm:
for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2001).
18. Jägerskog, 2003.
19. Jägerskog, 2003.
20. Phillips, D.J.H., M. Daoudy, J. Öjendal, S. McCaffrey and A.R. Turton. (2006) op. cit.
21. Jägerskog, 2007.
22. Öjendal J., Earle, A. and Jägerskog, A. (2010), ‘Towards an Conceptual
Framework for Transboundary Water Management’ in Earle, A., Jägerskog, A. and
Öjendal, Eds., (2010) Transboundary Water Management: Principles and Practice.
Earthscan, London (July 2010).
Further reading:
- Zeitoun, M. and Jägerskog, A. (2009) ‘Confronting Power: Strategies to Support
Less Powerful States’ in Jägerskog. A, and Zeitoun, M. (editors, 2009) Getting
Transboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation. Report Nr.
25. SIWI, Stockholm.
Cooperation on small rivers can make a difference
1. IWMI: .
2. Regional Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and
the Caucasus:
3. CGIAR research centres:
4. IWMI in Central Asia: .
5. Oregon State University, International Freshwater Treaties Database: www.
6. Solving a Rubik’s Cube: Water and security in Central Asia:
News_Room/Archives/Water_and_Security_in_Central_Asia.
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Efficient and effective cooperation in the River Rhine catchment
1. CHR is a permanent, autonomous international commission, registered as a
foundation in the Netherlands. Its presidency alternates between the member states.
In 2012, Professor Hans Moser of the Federal Institute of Hydrology in Koblenz,
Germany, took over the presidency from Professor Manfred Spreafico of Switzerland,
who had been President for 22 years. The CHR secretariat is permanently financed
and hosted by the Netherlands and is carried out by Rijkswaterstaat in Lelystad.
Each member state is represented by one official representative from a national
hydrological institute. If desired, each country can delegate other representatives,
for example from research institutes. CHR members meet twice a year to discuss
selected themes in detail, with the venue alternating between member states. The
secretary of the International Commission for the Protection of the River Rhine
(ICPR) and a WMO representative are invited to attend the meetings as observers,
and CHR members take part in ICPR working or expert groups. Please contact the
CHR secretariat for further information:
2. From Jörg Uwe Belz, The discharge regime of the Rhine and its tributaries in
the 20th century – Analysis, Changes, Trends:
Extended_Abstract_I_22_E.pdf.
3. UNESCO-IHP report at:
ISI_LAC.pdf.
4. The United Nations Environment Programme evaluation report dating from
October 2011 is available at:
Bermejo_TE_Final_Report.pdf.
Notes and References