9780792381068 - Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources (Natural Resource Management and Policy, 11, Band 11) (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 0792381068 Very Good; Hardcover; Covers are still glossy with minor edgewear; Name on front endpaper; Text pages are bright & unmarked; Binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Tan covers with title in blue lettering; 1998, Springer-Verlag Publishing; 432 pages; "Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources (Natural Resource Management and Policy)," by Richard E. Just & Sinaia Netanyahu.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book demonstrates what the discipline of economics has to offer as support for analyzing cooperation on management of trans-boundary water resources. It also considers what the discipline of economics has to acquire to become a more effective contributor to trans-boundary water resource management given political, legal, social, physical, scientific, and ecological realities. This book has its genesis in a symposium of the International Water and Resource Economics Consortium held at Annapolis, Maryland, April 13-16, 1997. The symposium was organized by the editors and the book contains papers presented at the symposium with subsequent revisions. The symposium brought together both economists and agency management personnel for the purpose of discussing not only how economic tools apply to trans-boundary water management, but also of identifying the obstacles to making such tools useful and informative to politicians and negotiators in public decision making roles. INTERNATIONAL VERSUS DOMESTIC TRANS-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS Trans-boundary water problems arise in many dimensions. The two most important types of problems emphasized in this book are international and domestic interstate or interregional problems. Cooperation on international problems is especially difficult because enforcement must be voluntary given the sovereignty of nations and the absence of an effective legal enforcement mechanism. Agreements must be sustainable and self-enforced if they are to have lasting benefits. Every negotiating country must be convinced it will receive benefits before it gives its consent to cooperation. In the absence of enforceable agreements, trans-boundary (i. e.

Zustand: New. Trans-boundary water resources are often a cause of conflict among riparian entities. This book offers an economic approach to resolution of conflicts by identifying economic mechanisms that encourage sustainable cooperation. It includes discussions on international and intrastate disputes regarding both water quantity and water quality issues. Editor(s): Just, Richard E.; Netanyahu, Sinaia. Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy. Num Pages: 457 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 818. . 1998. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.