Conflict and Cooperation: The Duality of Cross-Border Water Governance

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Special Issue ‘Conflict and Cooperation: The Duality of Cross-Border Water Governance’.

Sub Focus: Governance Modalities of Large Cross-Border Basins and Wetlands (Great Lakes) in the Americas and other Transboundary Regions

Specifically, the topics for this Special Issue include, but are not restricted to:

• Submissions that reflect on governance and management pathways implemented in large cross-border basins and wetlands regions in the Americas (and other transboundary regions) and how such regions coordinate their competencies, mandates, and capacities from supranational to local levels;
• Research that illustrates empirical evidence regarding the effects and effectiveness of management of large cross-border basins and wetlands in the Americas (and other transboundary regions) and has such arrangements to ensure water, human, and political security;
• Synthesis papers that reflect on how various levels of governance respond to, anticipate, forecast, and share information concerning water and climate risk management and resilience building for cross-border basins and wetlands regions in the Americas (and other transboundary regions);
• Submissions on the modalities and added value of the SDG agenda for regional and global cooperation on cross-border basins and wetlands regions in the Americas (and other transboundary regions);
• Analyses of salient environmental harms or risks which generate conflicts around transboundary waters and the role of state actors, supranational regions and non-state actors in these conflicts and/or their redress;
• Analyses of the role of state actors, regional organisations and non-state actors in the design of mechanisms to prevent or mitigate transboundary harms or risks from the use of transboundary waters;
• Characterisations of regional transboundary water management in the Americas and comparative analyses with other regions in other continents.

Submissions featuring the above-outlined dimensions in large cross-border basins and wetlands in other parts of the world will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Prof. Dr. Nidhi Nagabhatla
Prof. Dr. David Katz
Prof. Dr. Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
Guest Editors

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