Monitoring Transboundary Water Cooperation in SDG 6.5.2: How a Critical Hydropolitics Approach Can Spot Inequitable Outcomes
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Critical Hydropolitics: A Brief Overview
3. Results: Analysis and Critique of SDG Target 6.5 and Indicator 6.5.2
A bilateral or multilateral treaty, convention, agreement, or other formal arrangement, such as memorandum of understanding, between riparian countries that provides a framework for cooperation on transboundary water management. Agreements or other kind of formal arrangements may be interstate, intergovernmental, interministerial, interagency, or between regional authorities.
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- there is a joint body, joint mechanism, or commission (e.g., a river organization) for transboundary cooperation;
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- there are regular (at least once per year) formal communications between riparian countries in the form of meetings (either at the political or technical level);
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- there is a joint or coordinated water-management plan(s), or joint objectives have been set;
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- there is a regular exchange (at least once per year) of data and information.
3.1. Are Operational Arrangements Always ‘Good’?
3.2. Either Operational Arrangement or Nothing?
4. Discussion: Two Proposals for Improving Indicator 6.5.2
4.1. Making Informal, Formal and Technical Talks Count by Adding a Preoperational Arrangement Phase
4.2. Uncovering Bad Cooperation
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Hussein, H.; Menga, F.; Greco, F. Monitoring Transboundary Water Cooperation in SDG 6.5.2: How a Critical Hydropolitics Approach Can Spot Inequitable Outcomes. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3640. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103640
Hussein H, Menga F, Greco F. Monitoring Transboundary Water Cooperation in SDG 6.5.2: How a Critical Hydropolitics Approach Can Spot Inequitable Outcomes. Sustainability. 2018; 10(10):3640. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103640
Chicago/Turabian StyleHussein, Hussam, Filippo Menga, and Francesca Greco. 2018. "Monitoring Transboundary Water Cooperation in SDG 6.5.2: How a Critical Hydropolitics Approach Can Spot Inequitable Outcomes" Sustainability 10, no. 10: 3640. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103640