Hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin is occurring at a rapid pace. With partial funding from international financial institutions has come pressure on the riparian governments to ensure that the potential environmental and social impacts of hydropower projects are properly considered....
Campbell, Lauren
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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McCornick, Peter G.
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[Environmental impact assessment: theory, practice and implications for Mekong hydropower debate]
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Environmental impact assessment: theory, practice and implications for Mekong hydropower debate
Lautze, Jonathan
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Giordano, Mark
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[Demanding supply management and supplying demand management: Transboundary waters in sub-Saharan Africa]
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Demanding supply management and supplying demand management: Transboundary waters in sub-Saharan Africa
Lautze, Jonathan
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Giordano, Mark
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[Demanding supply management and Supplying demand management: Transboundary waters in sub-Saharan Africa]
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Demanding supply management and Supplying demand management: Transboundary waters in sub-Saharan Africa
Prosinger, Jana
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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[Linking climate change discourse with climate change policy in the Mekong: the case of Lao PDR]
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Linking climate change discourse with climate change policy in the Mekong: the case of Lao PDR
Equity has emerged as an important principle in transboundary water law in recent years, particularly in relation to water allocation. Yet basic questions remain unanswered. What constitutes an equitable transboundary water agreement? What constitutes an equitable allocation of shared waters? And...
Lautze, Jonathan
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Giordano, Mark
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[Equity in transboundary water law: Valuable paradigm or merely semantics?]
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Equity in transboundary water law: Valuable paradigm or merely semantics?
Previous analysis of transboundary water governance has been focused primarily on state-centred approaches. The articles in this special section move us forward from this focus in three ways. First, they highlight the crucial role played by non-state actors in shaping water governance outcomes. S...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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[Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research.]
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Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research.
Two strategies are assessed to increase wheat production in the water-scarce Karkheh River Basin (KRB) in Iran to meet targets by the year 2025. The strategies proposed are (a) to increase yields in the current irrigated and rainfed wheat areas and (b) to increase the area under rainfed wheat thr...
Ahmad, M.D.
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Giordano, Mark
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[The Karkheh River Basin: the food basket of Iran under pressure.]
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The Karkheh River Basin: the food basket of Iran under pressure.
This paper tells the story of trade-off between hydropower and irrigation and its implications for groundwater use in Syrdarya basin in Central Asia. With the independence of the central Asian republics, this trade-off has become a transboundary issue. Efforts to coordinate bilateral action using...
Karimov, Akmal A.
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Giordano, Mark
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Mukherji, Aditi
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Borisov, Vecheslav
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Djumanov, Jamol
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[Of transboundary basins, integrated water resources management (IWRM) and second best solutions: the case of groundwater banking in Central Asia]
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Of transboundary basins, integrated water resources management (IWRM) and second best solutions: the case of groundwater banking in Central Asia
This article provides an institutional analysis of the Mekong River Commission and brings to light the institutional dissonances between regional and national decision-making landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin. The current scalar disconnect between regional and national decision-making processe...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Molle, Francois
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[Scalar disconnect: the logic of transboundary water governance in the Mekong.]
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Scalar disconnect: the logic of transboundary water governance in the Mekong.
Gerlak, A. K.
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Lautze, Jonathan
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Giordano, Mark
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[Greater exchange, greater ambiguity: water resources data and information exchange in transboundary water treaties]
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Greater exchange, greater ambiguity: water resources data and information exchange in transboundary water treaties