TY - BOOK AU - Dinar,Ariel AU - Dinar,Shlomi AU - McCafferey,Stephen AU - McKinney,Daene TI - Bridges over water: understanding transboundary water conflict, negotiation and cooperation T2 - World scientific series on energy and resource economics, SN - 9789812568939 (hardback) AV - K3496 .B75 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - New Jersey PB - World Scientific KW - Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités (1969) KW - ram KW - Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) KW - unbisn KW - Water KW - Law and legislation KW - Water rights (International law) KW - Water resources development KW - Ressources en eau KW - Eau KW - Droit KW - Exploitation KW - Cours d'eau internationaux KW - Gestion des ressources en eau KW - Droit international KW - Wasserreserve KW - swd KW - Internationaler Konflikt KW - Ressourcenökonomie KW - SHARED WATER RESOURCES KW - unbist KW - WATER LAW KW - WATER MANAGEMENT KW - INTERNATIONAL RIVERS KW - DISPUTE SETTLEMENT KW - CASE STUDIES N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: state of water and interstate water relations -- Overview of literature on conflict negotiation and cooperation over shared waters -- The development and application of international water law -- Principles and practices of cooperation in managing international water -- Cooperative gave theory and water resources: principles -- Cooperative game theory and water resources: application of solution concepts -- Hydropolitics and international relations -- An overview of selected international water treaties in their geographic and political contexts -- Global analysis of international water agreements -- The use of river basin modeling as a tool to assess conflict and potential cooperation -- Conclusion -- Case study 1. The Mekong River Basin -- Case study 2. The Ganges River Basin (with focus on India and Bangladesh) -- Case study 3. The Indus River Basin -- Case study 4. The Aral Sea Basin -- Annex 1. Sample treaties -- Annex 2. The generica - an outline for preparing a basin case study -- Annex 3. River basin cooperative game theory example N2 - Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines (such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics), analyzing them using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling and game theory. Case studies of particular transboundary river basins, lakes and aquifers are also considered. This is the first textbook for a relatively recent yet rapidly expanding field of study ER -