New Perspectives on Transboundary Water Governance - Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Case Studies

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches.

List of contents

Presentation: theories and tensions regarding transboundary water uses
Wagner Costa Ribeiro
Luis Paulo Batista da Silva
Isabella Battistello Espíndola
PART 1
Chapter 1 - Climate change, adaptation, and risk of conflict in international river basins: beyond the conventional wisdom
Ken Conca
Chapter 2 - Exploring hydroparadiplomacy
Jeroen Warner
Chapter 3 - Framing the transboundary waters: political scales, governance and cooperation
Luis Paulo Batista da Silva, Wagner Costa Ribeiro, Isabella Battistello Espíndola
PART 2
Chapter 4 - Beyond conflict and cooperation in Central American transboundary river basins: crossroads of actors and borders
Edith Kauffer
Chapter 5 - Southern African transboundary waters: non-state actors in the Inkomati-Usuthu water management area and the Okavango river basin
Richard Meissner
Chapter 6 - The politics of water in the case of Syria
Marwan Safar Jalani
Hussam Hussein
Chapter 7 - Discussions on water governance in the Paraguay (South America) and Tagus (luso-hispanic) river basins
Flávia Darre Barbosa
PART 3
Chapter 8 - U.S.-Mexico border groundwater environmental conservation: Mexico's public policy analysis 1948-2022
Gonzalo Hatch Kuri
Yussef Ricardo Abud Russell
Chapter 9 - Saline water, peace and security: analyzing the impact of desalination on transboundary groundwater interactions in the Middle East
Maureen Walschot
Chapter 10 - A new pathway for managing the Guarani Aquifer System: the border as a unit of transboundary management
Maria Luísa Telarolli de Almeida Leite
Pilar Carolina Villar

About the author

Luis Paulo Batista da Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Program of Post-graduation in Geography at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil.
Wagner Costa Ribeiro is a Professor of the Program of Post-graduation in Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the coordinator of the Transboundary Waters Work Thematic Area of WATERLAT-GOBACIT.
Isabella Battistello Espíndola is a Senior Officer at the International Water Association (IWA) in London, United Kingdom.

Product details

• Assisted by: Luis Paulo Batista da Silva (Editor), Isabella Battistello Espíndola (Editor), Wagner Costa Ribeiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032367675
• ISBN: 978-1-032-36767-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Weight: 400 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; NATURE / Natural Resources, Science / Environmental Science, Drought & Water Supply, Drought and water supply, transboundary;water;governance;global