World Scientific Handbook of Transboundary Water Management

The impacts of population growth, climate change, and water scarcity and variability on a country's economy or society, in addition to the sheer need to harness international rivers for domestic and regional purposes, have made the management of transboundary freshwater a subject of great import. Over the past several decades, research in various disciplines utilizing a variety of methodologies has explored these issues, focusing on freshwater's strategic importance as well as conflict, cooperation, and negotiation over shared water bodies (rivers, lakes, aquifers).

This multi-volume set seeks to contribute to this still burgeoning body of literature by focusing on several key themes that can help explain and recognize successes and failures in transboundary freshwater management. In particular, the set seeks to bring together original scholarship focusing on international law, technology, institutions (formal and informal), and the interplay of domestic and international affairs. Each edited volume in the set aims to build on extant research while also fostering new paths of inquiry. Overall, the set seeks to become a guide for both academics and practitioners hoping to better understand the joint management of this precious natural resource from socio-political, legal, economic, and technological perspectives.

Volume 1 explores international law for shared freshwater resources — both surface and subsurface waters — from a multidisciplinary perspective. It explains the role of international water law (IWL) (and/or specific norms) within particular contexts/case studies and critically examines that role and its relative success (or failure) in achieving the intended objectives.

Volume 2 explores the roles of, and limitations of, technologies and their applications in the management of transboundary water and wastewater. It presents case studies and legal, and political analyses that focus on the potential or actual roles and implications of the technologies in transboundary policy and management, rather than detailed explications of the technologies themselves.

Volume 3 contributes to the growing literature seeking to understand how, when, and if institutions (broadly defined) impact states' abilities to address their joint water disputes. The volume presents a combination of single, comparative, and empirical analyses of cases across the world about the role of institutions in facilitating collaboration over transboundary water resources and mitigating conflict.

Volume 4 seeks to make sense of the interplay of domestic, transnational, and international dynamics in explaining conflict and cooperation over water through single or comparative case studies as well as analyses of on-the-ground transboundary water management experiences arising from these complex political dimensions.

Contents:

• Volume 1: Cooperating Over Shared Freshwater Resources Using International Law:
  • Preface
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction (Gabriel Eckstein)
  • A Historical Overview of the Evolution and Broadening of International Water Law (Laura Movilla Pateiro and Gabriel Eckstein)
  • International Water Law and Cooperation Over Shared Freshwater Resources: An Introduction (Susanne Schmeier and Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada)
  • Cooperation in a Transboundary Water Context: The African Experience (Nwamaka Chigozie Odili)
  • The Importance of Environmental Flows in International Water Agreements (Amy Hardberger)
  • The Role of International Law in Water Security: A Focus on Transboundary Groundwater (Petr Stejskal and Gabriel Eckstein)
  • The Nexus Approach in the Framework of International Water Law: Legal Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation (Pol Pallàs Secall)
  • Water and Indigenous Peoples: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and its Impacts on the Governance of International Watercourses (Amael Notini)
  • Participation of Local Actors in the Management of Shared Freshwater Resources: The Case of the Silala (Otto Spijkers)
  • Factors Affecting the Adoption of Transboundary Groundwater Agreements and Potential Solutions: A Focus on the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (Imad Antoine Ibrahim)
  • Managing Transboundary Waters through Treaties: The Case of the Ganges Basin Practice, Problems, and Prospects (Kishor Uprety)
  • Incremental Cooperation Linking Science and International Water Law: The Stampriet and Ocotepeque-Citalá Transboundary Aquifers (Stefano Burchi, Tales Carvalho Resende, Marina Rubio and Alice Aureli)
  • Index
• Volume 2: Tapping Technologies: The Role of Technological Change in Transboundary Water Management:
  • Preface
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • The Technological Transformation of Transboundary Water Management (David Katz)
  • An Overview of Disruptive Technologies for Transboundary Water Management (Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep)
  • Systems Analysis to Inform Transboundary Resource Management (Kevin G Wheeler, Michael Gilmont, Jim W Hall, Hussam Hussein, and Aman Majid)
  • Desalination and the Transformation of Transboundary Water Policy (David Katz and Maureen Walschot)
  • Wastewater Recycling in Transboundary Non-humid Settings: Will Win–Win–Win Options Materialize? (Eran Feitelson)
  • Using Satellite-Derived Surface Wetness to Monitor Water Resources and River Discharge (Kamar Saliyeva, Alan Basist, Claude Williams, Neil Thomas, Dane Ratliff, Hunter Allen, Brian Eyler, Courtney Weatherby, Regan Kwan, and Brian Blankenspoor)
  • Technological Advances in Remote Sensing: Help or Hindrance for Groundwater Governance? (Jacob D Petersen-Perlman, Katalyn Voss, and Jaclyn Best)
  • Applications of Satellite-Based Remote Sensing for Transboundary Water Management in Marine Environments: Mapping Wastewater Effluent Off the Coast of Gaza (Anna Ballasiotes)
  • Application of Ensemble and Deep Learning Algorithms to Model Groundwater Levels in a Data-Scarce Aquifer in Southern Africa (Thokozani Kanyerere, Audrey Levine, Zaheed Gaffoor, Joyce Robertson, Ndubuisi Igwebuike, and Kevin Pietersen)
  • Forecasting High-Resolution Groundwater Level Anomalies Using an Autoregressive Machine Learning Approach: A Case Study of the Ramotswa/North West/Gauteng Dolomite Aquifers of Southern Africa (Thokozani Kanyerere, Audrey Levine, Zaheed Gaffoor, Joyce Robertson, Ndubuisi Igwebuike, and Kevin Pietersen)
  • Cybersecurity in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) Sector: Implications for Transboundary Water Management (David Katz and Lior Tabansky)
  • Technological Fix: An Anatomy and Antonym of a Term (Joe Williams)
  • Index
• Volume 3: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Managing Transboundary Basins:
  • Preface
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • The Role of Institutions in Governing Transboundary Rivers: An Introduction (Neda A Zawahri)
  • Changing Values: Trends in International Freshwater Agreements (Alexandra Turgul, E Lynn Porta, Melissa McCracken, and Aaron T Wolf)
  • The Role of Basin Water Treaties and Basin Organizations in Managing Transboundary Water Resources: Taking Stock of Current Practice (Susanne Schmeier and Sabine Blumstein)
  • Enduring Transboundary Water Treaties: Complex Redundancy as a Condition of Treaty Persistence (Stephen P Mumme)
  • Transboundary Water Organizations: Mechanisms and Challenges for Managing Evolving Disputes (Lara B Fowler, Ashok Swain, Gerardo Gentil Orozco, Somtochukwu Attamah, Astrid M. Bernal Rubio and Brenda Vitisia)
  • Governing the North American Great Lakes across National and Subnational Borders (Joseph W Dellapenna)
  • The Politicization of Water: How Water Fell Hostage to Israeli Jordanian Politics (Neda A Zawahri and Erika Weinthal)
  • Historical Review of Formal and Informal Water Institutions in the Euphrates-Tigris Region with a Specific Focus on Water Relations between Turkey and Iraq (Aysegül Kibaroglu)
  • Transboundary Water Governance Institutions in La Plata Basin: The Quaraí Sub-Basin and the Role of Rice Farmers (Luis Paulo Batista da Silva, Ágata Graziele dos Santos Brito and Wagner Costa Ribeiro)
  • Institutions in the Nile Basin: Extending the Present State of Transboundary Affairs (Mohammad Al-Saidi)
  • River Management in the GBM Basin: A Comparative Analysis of Formal and Informal Water Management Institutions in India and Bangladesh (Tamanna Ashraf)
  • Index
• Volume 4: Transboundary Water Management Across Scales: Understanding the Domestic-International Interplay:
  • Preface
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • The Domestic-International Interplay in Transboundary Waters (Jeroen Warner)
  • The Politics of Scale Framing in the River Rhine Negotiations: Restoring Migration Routes for Anadromous Fish (Jeroen Warner and Rianne van Dorp)
  • Governance of a Transboundary River: A Comparative Geohistorical Analysis of the Rhȏne River in France and Switzerland (Joana Guerrin, Alexis Metzger, Raphaël Morera, Antoine Brochet, René Véron and Emmanuel Reynard)
  • Domestic–International Nexus of Transboundary Interactions: The Case of Finnish–Russian Water Diplomacy and Cooperation (Juho Haapala and Marko Keskinen)
  • Sectors and Scales in Transboundary Water Governance: A Case Study of the Mekong Region (Oliver Hensengerth)
  • Employing Non-Decision Making: A Thoughtful Strategy and Tactics Used in the Brahmaputra River Basin (Sumit Vij)
  • Benefit Sharing and Its Application in China's Shared Rivers: Views from the Chinese Epistemic Community (Lei Xie and Qi Yu)
  • Multilevel Hydropolitics in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin (Alexandra Turgul and Jeroen Warner)
  • Managing Wastewater across Borders: A Case-Study from Palestine and Israel (Rozemarijn ter Horst, David Katz, Peter van der Steen and Adel Yasin)
  • Two-Level River Games: Egypt, Ethiopia and GERD Negotiations on the Nile (Rawia Tawfik and Jeroen Warner)
  • Transnationalization of Water Knowledge in South Africa's Inkomati-Usuthu Water Management Area (Richard Meissner)
  • National and International Institutional Frameworks for the Multilevel Management of Surface and Groundwater Resources: The La Plata Basin (Maria Luísa Telarolli de Almeida Leite, Isabela Battistello Espindola and Wagner Costa Ribeiro)
  • Index

Readership: The work is aimed primarily at academics, scholars, and practitioners of environmental economics, international relations, and international water law; it provides a useful reference for research, learning, policy, planning, development, and management of water resources, water law, and water policies. Professionals in public policy and administration, particularly those with an interest in international water law, water management, climate change, climate change mitigation, and fostering cooperation between states over their shared transboundary water resources. General reader interested in the subject.