Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution

Water ignores political boundaries and its natural management unit, the watershed, strains institutional and legal controls, leasing to competing claims for its use, This book is a comprehensive review of the literature on managing conflicts relating to water quantity and quality problems. Case studies of transboundary dispute resolution include the Danube, Euphrates, Jordan, Ganges, Indus, and Mekong rivers; the Nile Waters Agreement; the Plata basin; the Aral sea; and the Lesotho Highlands water project.

Heather L. Beach is an independent research consultant and web designer who holds an MS in Geographic and Cartographic Sciences Jesse Hamner is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia J. Joseph Hewitt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia Edy Kaufman is Senior Research Associate, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, College Park and Executive Director, Harry Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Anja Kurki is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park Joe A. Oppenheimer is a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park Aaron T. Wolf is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University