Conflict and Cooperation: The Duality of Cross-Border Water Governance
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2024) | Viewed by 11671
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Earth, Environment & Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Interests: environmental governance and policy; sustainable development goals (SDGs); climate change adaptation; environmental migration; nature-based solutions; transboundary waters and hydro diplomacy; science policy interfaces; decision support systems; policy support systems; geoinformatics
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Interests: water policy; water management; environmental and resource economics
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Interests: transboundary and transnational environmental conflicts; judicial activism on sustainability issues; corporate liability for impacts of global value chain operations on people and ecosystems; access to justice for victims of environmental harms caused by transnational economic activities; role of regional organizations in addressing transnational and transboundary environmental hazards and harms
Special Issue Information
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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Keywords
- cross-border aquifers
- transboundary large basins
- transboundary wetlands
- cross-border Great Lakes
- Americas
- transboundary regions and landscapes
- cooperation agreements
- conflict settings
- governance
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