Calculating the Benefits of Transboundary River Basin Cooperation: Syr Darya Basin

Teasley, Rebecca; McKinney, Daene C.

doi:10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000141

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“…The Columbia River is not the only example of such reframing; multiple examples from other parts of the world are discussed by a number of scholars [16,19,74]. As mentioned earlier, some of the development agencies (e.g., [11,[13][14][15][16][40][41][42]76]) adopted the approach, and increasingly promoted it as a way forward in many contentious transboundary river basins around the world, including the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Ganges, Mekong, Amu Darya, and Syr Darya Basins, among others.…”

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“…First, within the context of transboundary water management, benefit sharing has been suggested and promoted as a new way to seek cooperation between countries with competing interests by development-oriented agencies such as the World Bank, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and Overseas Development Institute (e.g., [11,15,16,40]). The suggested concept has been picked up by a number of scholars, who developed models for different transboundary river basins around the world (e.g., [41][42][43][44]), and by donor community and basin management organizations, who actively promoted the approach in negotiations to foster cooperation between riparian states (e.g., [45][46][47]). Second, the conference of parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) took active steps to establish a new international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS), which resulted in adoption of the Nagoya Protocol in 2010 [20,48].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

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2017

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It is broadly agreed that development needs and effects from changing environment will increase pressure on the ways natural resources are utilized and shared at present. In most parts of the world, resource stress has already reached unprecedented levels setting resource sustainability high on the policy agenda on multiple governance levels. This paper aims to explain how the benefit sharing approach can help reframe the debate for sustainability, its advantages and disadvantages for transforming governance challenges and adapting to increasing resource stress. We bring together fragmented discussions of benefit sharing from three resource domains: water, land, and biodiversity. Both theoretical and empirical examples are provided to aid understanding of how benefit sharing can facilitate adaptive governance processes in complex socio-ecological systems. The findings highlight importance of integrating the long-term perspective when societies move from volumes toward values of shared natural resources, as well as setting environmental conservation and equitable allocation as the top priority for benefit sharing to be sustainable.

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Section: Agenda Setting To Transform Transboundary Water Disagreementsmentioning

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2017

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“…All hydropower plants are under conditions such that they satisfy the required water demand and initial power demand [10]. Therefore, the evaluation objective is to obtain the difference between the maximum power output from the cascade hydropower complex and actual power output during the same period.…”

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Evaluation of Power Generation Efficiency of Cascade Hydropower Plants: A Case Study

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Wei

2013

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Effective utilization of scarce water resources has presented a significant challenge to respond to the needs created by rapid economic growth in China. In this study, the efficiency of the joint operation of the Three Gorges and Gezhouba cascade hydropower plants in terms of power generation was evaluated on the basis of a precise simulation-optimization technique. The joint operation conditions of the Three Gorges and Gezhouba hydropower plants between 2004 and 2010 were utilized in this research in order to investigate the major factors that could affect power output of the cascade complex. The results showed that the current power output of the Three Gorges and Gezhouba cascade complex had already reached around 90% of the maximum theoretical value. Compared to other influencing factors evaluated in this study, the accuracy of hydrological forecasts and flood control levels can have significant impact on the power generating efficiency, whereas the navigation has a minor influence. This research provides a solid quantitative-based methodology to assess the operation efficiency of cascade hydropower plants, and more importantly, proposes potential methods that could improve the operation efficiency of cascade hydropower plants.

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“…Flinn & Guise (1970), Vaux & Howitt (1984), Booker & Young (1994) and are examples of water resources allocation studies via optimization models. Rogers (1969Rogers ( , 1993, , Kucukmehmetoglu & Guldmann (2004, Kucukmehmetoglu (2009Kucukmehmetoglu ( , 2012, , Wu & Whittington (2006), Eleftheriadou & Mylopoulos (2008), and Teasley & McKinney (2011) are examples of both optimization and game theoretic approaches to transboundary water resources allocations.…”

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Transboundary Water Resources Allocation under Various Parametric Conditions: The Case of the Euphrates & Tigris River Basin

Küçükmehmetoğlu

Geymen

2014

Water Resour Manage

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe literature on transboundary water resources allocation modeling is still short on encompassing and analyzing complex geographic multiparty nature of basins. This study elaborates the Inter Temporal Euphrates and Tigris River Basin Model (ITETRBM), which is a linear programming based transboundary water resources allocation model maximizing net economic benefit from allocation of scarce water resources to energy generation, urban, and agricultural uses. The elaborations can be categorized in two directions: First, agricultural and urban demand nodes are spatially identified with their relative elevations and distances to water resources supplies (dams, reservoirs, and lakes). Digital elevation model (DEM) database are intensely processed in geographic information system (GIS) environment. Second, the agricultural irrigable lands are restructured into a pixel based decision making units (DMUs) in order to be able to see the spatial extent of optimally irrigated land, and then optimization program is converted from linear programming (LP) to a mixed integer programming (MIP). The model applications are designed to cover a series of sensitivity analyses encompassing the various transboundary management, energy and agricultural use value, and transportation cost scenarios over the optimal uses of the Euphrates and Tigris Basin (ETRB) resources. The model results are visually presented via GIS in order to show the transboundary upstream and downstream spatial impacts of these selected parameters. The findings are i) system parameters significantly alter the spatial extent of water resources allocation in the ETRB, and ii) the magnitudes of the parameters also explains the tradeoffs between agriculture and energy sectors as much as upstream and downstream water uses of countries.

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Calculating the Benefits of Transboundary River Basin Cooperation: Syr Darya Basin

Cited by 79 publications

References 24 publications

Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Evaluation of Power Generation Efficiency of Cascade Hydropower Plants: A Case Study

Transboundary Water Resources Allocation under Various Parametric Conditions: The Case of the Euphrates & Tigris River Basin

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