Transboundary Water Sharing Issues in International and National Perspectives

Deka, Arundhati; Gulati, Vishaka; Barua, Anamika

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6400-6_4

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“…One recent example of this has been the construction of three large dams in quick succession within short distances of each other in three different states' territories on the upper Indus River. Another example was the breakdown of the waterflow data sharing agreement between China and India after the Doklam incident (Deka, Gulati, and Barua 2019).…”

Section: The Contemporary Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics

Davis

Gamble

Roche

et al. 2020

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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This article examines international relations (IR)'s approach to the Himalaya. We argue that the possibility of violent conflict over contested international borders is not the region's primary international challenge. Rather, slow violence inflicted by statebuilding and militarisation, intimately connected to geopolitical tensions, threaten the region's ecologies, cultures and languages. The Himalaya is home to three biodiversity hotspots and a mosaic of ethnic groups, many of whom speak threatened languages. Its ice-deposits feed most of Asia's large rivers. In recent years, India and China have pursued large-scale infrastructure development in the region, enabling greater militarisation and extraction, and a tourist rush. These threats are amplified by climate change, which is occurring in the Himalaya at twice global averages, contributing to landslides, flooding, and droughts. However, the region's complexity is not matched by IR's theorisations, which overwhelmingly focus on the possibility of violent conflict between state actors. We argue that IR's analysis of the region must go beyond a states-and-security, Delhi-Beijing-Islamabad centred approach, to look at the numerous interconnections between its geopolitics, cultures and ecologies. We suggest this can be accomplished through incorporating more interdisciplinary analysis, and through focusing on the interaction between the organisation of political authority and the region's environment.

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Section: The Contemporary Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics

Davis

Gamble

Roche

et al. 2020

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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Transboundary sharing of river water: Informating the policies

Acharya¹,

Halanaik²,

Ramaprasad

et al. 2019

River Research & Apps

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This paper presents an ontological framework that concisely captures the combinatorial complexity of river water sharing and visualizes the problem in its entirety. The framework's dimensions, the dimensions' taxonomies, and the resultant pathways are a complete, closed representation of the river water sharing problem. The framework is transdisciplinary; it is grounded in the research, the legal, and the practice literature on river water sharing. The authors illustrate the method and the application of the framework with the case study of Cauvery River water dispute between the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The approach can help develop innovative pathways to resolve such problems.

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