INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS IN TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT: LESSONS FROM THE FERGANA VALLEY AND THE LOWER JORDAN BASIN

Christine Bismuth and Bernd Hansjürgens

Chapter 9 in Management of Transboundary Water Resources under Scarcity:A Multidisciplinary Approach, 2017, pp 277-299 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Both the Fergana Valley in Central Asia and the Lower Jordan River Basin are international hotspots in water management. The irrigation and land use systems in both basins have seen important changes during the last century and the economic, social, and political stability in those regions depends largely on the availability and fair distribution of the basins’ water resources. How these water resources are managed depends in many ways on the different institutional settings and their adaptation capacities. In both regions, path dependencies, resulting from the construction of major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and existing institutional settings, constrain the introduction of integrated water resources management (IWRM) within a transboundary context. Those constraints can only be lifted by the introduction of adaptive and participative instruments.

Keywords: International Water; Climate Change; Population Growth; Economic Development; Pollution; International Relations; Water Law; Economic Optimization; Water Scarcity; Conflict; Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N50 O13 P48 Q26 Q28 Q34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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