Boundaries and Transboundary Water Conflicts

Matthews, Olen Paul; Germain, Dan St.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(2007)133:5(386)

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“…The increasing permeability of political boundaries plays a lessening role in the obstacles and conflicts in an integrated basin management (Matthews and St. Germain 2007). The best solution can be achieved via an administration ignoring existing political boundaries; however, creating such effective administrative units requires political will and compromise (Matthews and St. Germain 2007). Water is an inherently shared resource, one that does not respect human boundaries (boundaries between persons, between communities, and between states and nations); therefore, water management requires consideration of boundaries in how to allocate water within and across boundaries and how those boundaries impact upon optimum water management (Dellapenna 2007).…”

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A Game Theoretic Approach to Assess the Impacts of Major Investments on Transboundary Water Resources: The Case of the Euphrates and Tigris

Küçükmehmetoğlu

2009

Water Resour Manage

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There are varying and inconsistent claims among countries sharing the same river basins. While upstream countries are asserting that they regulate flows through built-up reservoirs (enabling flood prevention) and reduce seasonal flow variations (providing water during drought seasons), downstream countries criticize upstream countries for excessive withdrawals and declining annual flows. Behind the scene, almost every basin country unilaterally envisions of ambitious projects demanding extensive water withdrawals for their prospective development and growth. This study establishes a methodology to measure the rational economic and political impacts of extensive reservoir projects throughout a basin, using the case of the Euphrates and Tigris. This methodology uses both linear programming applications calculating country and coalition benefits, and game theory concepts (core and Shapley value) for evaluating the impacts of reservoirs. The Euphrates and Tigris River Basin Model (ETRBM) is extended by adding the time dimension. In conjunction with time, reservoir capacities are incorporated into the model as a new set of parameters enabling resources allocations over multiple periods. In a rational economic view, the existence of reservoirs, while providing certain advantages in allocating water overtime, provides varying geopolitical powers to upstream and downstream basin countries. As a result of model applications, it is observed that basin-wide coalitions may potentially eliminate construction of excessive reservoir capacities, and, therefore, unnecessary investment costs and evaporation losses. It is also observed that assuming the absence of downstream reservoirs, the upstream reservoirs provide significant, first, economic benefit to the all forms of coalitions with upstream country and associated parties and, second, power to the country having the reservoirs in any coalition scenario. However, again in a game theoretic perspective, the power of upstream countries looses some of its weight when downstream 3070 M. Kucukmehmetoglu reservoirs are incorporated. During drought years, the availability of reservoirs ensures extensive core solutions and encourages a grand coalition among all parties.

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Section: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

A Game Theoretic Approach to Assess the Impacts of Major Investments on Transboundary Water Resources: The Case of the Euphrates and Tigris

Küçükmehmetoğlu

2009

Water Resour Manage

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“…Conflicts over transboundary protected land resources have increasingly become common because of the shared nature of the resources on one hand, and the increasing scarcity of some of these resources on the other. 1 Global and regional studies demonstrate that there are numerous conflicts over transboundary protected land resources in the world such as those over transboundary mountains (Hoehne, 2014), over transboundary wildlife (De Pourcq et al, 2016) and water bodies (Matthews & Germain, 2007). These conflicts arise either due to simultaneous use of the resources or over resource allocation such as the conflicts over river Jordan between Israel and Jordan (Choudhury & Islam, 2015).…”

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Securing Insecure Livelihoods Through Group Synergies: The Case of Violent Namatala Transboundary Wetlandin Rural Eastern Uganda

Mudondo

Kabumbuli

Batega

2021

Journal of Land and Rural Studies

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This article uses evidence from Namatala wetland in Eastern Uganda to examine the livelihood insecurity associated with wetland conflicts and highlights the implications of group synergies in securing the related insecurities affecting access and use of the violent wetlands and livelihoods. Adopting a qualitative approach, data was generated using eight focus group discussions and 12 key informant interviews in Namatala conflict area, in Eastern Uganda. The findings reveal that the unpredictable brutal conflict actions in Namatala wetland compelled people to construct groups as informal mechanisms of navigating the insecure environments to secure livelihoods. The groups acted as a pool of labour, a means of maintaining employment, buffers against attack, financial safety valves and sources of predictive information gathering and sharing. Invoking the theory of practice, the article demonstrates that people experiencing conflicts make sense of their violent environments and devise informal group synergies as adaptive mechanisms of securing and sustaining their livelihoods.

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“…Our territorially delimited world lies at odds with increasing global interconnectedness, creating challenges for transboundary water policy. Tensions exist between calls for a 'post-border' world and heightened conflict over territoriality (Newman, 2006;Matthews & St. Germain, 2007;Jones, 2009;Paasi, 2009). In water resource management, borderless governance frameworks materialize in the form of basin-scale management regimes (Newson, 1997;Earle et al, 2010;Venot et al, 2011;Grech-Madin et al, 2018).…”

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“…Given the multitude of stakeholders at play in river basin management, there is a clear and pressing need to identify them at multiple geographic scales, so that all stakeholders may be considered in riparian water policy decisions (Lowi, 1995;Matthews & St. Germain, 2007;Das, 2008;Ridge, 2010;Venot et al, 2011;Zawahri et al, 2011;Lipscomb & Mobarak, 2016;Thomas, 2017;da Silva & Hussein, 2019). Thomas (2017), in particular, notes the role of political borders as a necessary space to consider when crafting management plans, suggesting a synergistic 'river-border complex', accounting for all stakeholders.…”

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Rivers as political borders: a new subnational geospatial dataset

Popelka

Smith

2020

Water Policy

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Rivers are commonly used to define political borders, but no global study has quantified the importance of rivers on territorial delimitation at subnational scales. This paper presents Global Subnational River-Borders (GSRB), a first comprehensive geospatial dataset of subnational, as well as national, political borders set by large rivers. GSRB incorporates three previous vector datasets (GAUL, GRWL + +, and WDBII) to map and quantify the use of large rivers as political borders at local, state, and national scales. GSRB conservatively finds that at least 58,588 km (23%) of the world's interior (non-coastal) national borders, 199,922 km (17%) of the world's interior state/province borders, and 459,459 km (12%) of the world's interior local-level political borders are set by large rivers. GSRB finds 222, 2,350, and 14,808 dyads sharing river-borders at these three administrative scales, respectively. While previous studies have emphasized transboundary rivers separating nations, GSRB highlights the abundance of river-borders at subnational scales, where numerous domestic stakeholders share jurisdiction in water resource management. These participants, identified with GSRB, ought not to be ignored when crafting water policy and instituting whole-basin management regimes. GSRB should prove useful for global, geospatial analyses of riparian stakeholders across administrative scales. The GSRB dataset (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3906566) can be found via the following link https://zenodo.org/record/3906567#.XvN-GGhKjIU.

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Boundaries and Transboundary Water Conflicts

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

A Game Theoretic Approach to Assess the Impacts of Major Investments on Transboundary Water Resources: The Case of the Euphrates and Tigris

A Game Theoretic Approach to Assess the Impacts of Major Investments on Transboundary Water Resources: The Case of the Euphrates and Tigris

Securing Insecure Livelihoods Through Group Synergies: The Case of Violent Namatala Transboundary Wetlandin Rural Eastern Uganda

Rivers as political borders: a new subnational geospatial dataset

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