Transboundary governance in the La Plata River basin: status and prospects

Abstract

The La Plata River Basin's transboundary institutional arrangement is a complex system with different geographical bases and scopes, including 14 international organizations, four technical committees and one groundwater commission (not yet implemented). This article examines this institutional architecture by outlining the characteristics of cooperative arrangements established under treaties as a way of analyzing how the process of water governance takes place between riparian states. The large number of institutions contrasts with the modest number of joint actions and projects, which prompts questions about their role in the governance process, especially considering the lack of transparency and information about their performance. ARTICLE HISTORY

Los Ríos Transfronterizos Y La Frontera Brasil-Bolivia: Los Usos Del Agua Y La Gobernanza Hídrica en El Centro Del Continente Sudamericano

“…Dicho tratado estableció las bases para el uso de los recursos hídricos y el desarrollo de proyectos de infraestructura en la región, orientados a la producción de hidroelectricidad y a la navegación fluvial. Si bien el tratado no acabó con los conflictos entre los países de la región 9 , creó el espacio de diálogo para la discusión de las propuestas orientados a desarrollar el potencial hídrico de la cuenca (Villar et al 2018;Silva y Hussein 2019;Espíndola y Ribeiro 2020).…”

South-American Transboundary Waters: The Management of the Guarani Aquifer System and the La Plata Basin Towards the Future

“…Instead of receiving more financial support from the riparian States, CICs specific projects depends, mostly, on externals funds. When the project resource ends, Villar, Ribeiro, and Sant'Anna (2018) argue that the cooperation can also end. This shows that there is a dependence on external capital for project development and implementation within the CIC and La Plata Basin.…”

“…To Villar, Ribeiro, and Sant'Anna (2018) the framework is an ambitious cooperation project since it undertakes a macro survey of the whole river basin area. Although it is an enormous task, "the use of the entire hydrographic basin as the scale of investigation (.…”

Production of scale in regional hydropolitics: An analysis of La Plata River Basin and the Guarani Aquifer System in South America

“…Regarding the issue of surface water, river basin hydropolitics has been seen as a broad consensus; however, raising awareness about climate change and its effects on fluvial dynamics has been addressed through the river basin scale with new forms of collaboration among riparian countries (Villar, Ribeiro and Sant'Anna, 2018). Table 2 shows the trend of agreements and treaties being signed among LPRB countries regarding its tributaries after issuing the 1969 La Plata Treaty.…”