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Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts: Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions

Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts: Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions

Author: Enamul Choudhury; Sahfiqui Islam
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9781783088690
Published In: December 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues.

Based on this theoretical frame, the book applies the ideas and tools from complexity science, contingency and enabling conditions to account for events in the formulation of treaties/agreements between disputing riparian states in river basins across the world (Indus, Jordan, Nile, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Colorado, Danube, Senegal and Zayandehrud). It also includes a section with scholars' reflections on the relevance and weakness of the theoretical framework.

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Foreword, Lawrence Susskind

Prologue, Enamul Choudhury and Shafiqul Islam

Part I The Conceptual Argument of the Book and a Case Illustration

Chapter One Complexity and Contingency: Understanding Transboundary Water Issues, Shafiqul Islam and Enamul Choudhury

Chapter Two The Meaning and Logic of Enablement to Explain Complexity and Contingent Actions, Enamul Choudhury and Shafiqul Islam

Chapter Three Bridging Complexity and Contingency: Role of Three Enabling Conditions to Resolve Water Confl icts in the Indus and Jordan Basins, Enamul Choudhury and Shafi qul Islam

Part II River Basins around the World: Case Studies

Chapter Four The Resolve to Cooperate on Danube: Enabling Conditions for Transboundary Water Cooperation, Tahira Syed

Chapter Five Governance of the Brahmaputra Sub- basin: Exploring the Enabling Conditions, Nilanjan Ghosh and Jayanta Bandyopadhyay

Chapter Six The Ganges River Water Sharing Agreement between Bangladesh and India: In Search of New Mechanisms to Meet New Challenges, Ashok Swain

Chapter Seven Agreement on Declaration of Principles on the GERD: Interdependence or Leveling the Nile Basin Playing Field?, Salman M. A. Salman

Chapter Eight Refl ections on the Colorado River, Kevin Wheeler

Part III Critical Refl ection on the Argument of Complexity and Contingency and the Role of Enabling Conditions

Chapter Nine Building a Shared Understanding in Water Management, Bruno Verdini

Chapter Ten Zayandehrud Water Issues: How Can a Negotiated Approach Be Developed?, Mehdi Fasihi Harandi

Chapter Eleven Refl ections on Enabling Conditions through the Lens of Power Asymmetry, Naho Mirumachi

Chapter Twelve Is the Engagement of Third Parties an Enabling Condition of Transboundary Water Cooperation?, Paula Hanasz

Chapter Thirteen From Pulp to Paper: How Understanding Laws Enhances Cooperation and Enables Water Security, Alexandra Campbell- Ferrari and Luke Wilson; Epilogue, Shafi qul Islam and Enamul Choudhury

Notes on Contributors

Index