Conflict Management of Water Resources

About this book

Now that the Cold War is over, ethnic and regional conflicts are emerging over resources and the environment. The management of water, the lifeblood of any country, is becoming a vital issue. This volume offers a study of conflict management of water resources. It includes some selected papers presented at an international meeting, held at the Mahatma Gandhi Center of Conflict Prevention and Management in Ahmedabad, India. Other invited papers have also been included in the collection. Obviously it was not possible to address here all aspects of the vast field of water management. The main focus of this work is the management of water conflict and its implications for peace.

Contents

Part 1 Implications and resolutions of water resource management issues: introduction, Manas Chatterji; the water sector in the Middle-East - potential conflict resolutions, Saul Arlosoroff; the hydro-political implications of the Oslo agreements - an Israeli perspective, Martin Sherman; water management in the Peoples Republic of China, Weiluo Wang; water resources in China's Yellow River delta, Sam Cole; managing the Nile River - the role of sub-basin co-operation, Ashok Swain. Part 2 Co-operative opportunities and emerging challenges: sustainability and conflict management-towards a co-operative manual, Keith Akva Lehrer; water management in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin - emerging challenges for the 21st century, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay; water resources and environmental management, Mohan Munasinghe; some issues related to conflict management of water resources in Nepal, M.M. Sainju; environmental and economic conflicts - lessons from Europe, Allain Sallez; natural resources, diplomacy and security in east Asia, Nagaharu Hayabusa; running out of water, running out of time, Arun P. Elhance; changing approaches to water resource management - the case of the British Columbia Gulf Islands, David G. Banks; the Narmada Project - patterns of trans-state confrontation, co-operation and conflict management, Pravin Sheth; identifying management strategies of common pool regimes - groundwater resources, M. Dinseh Kumar; management of water resources through Panchayati Raj institutions - a case study, Jayant Patil; management of arsenic contaminated groundwater in the Bengal delta plain, P. Bhattacharya, A.B. Mukherjee; water resources and mountain communities, S.K. Mattoo; imperative prospects of Indo-Nepal co-operation for the optimum water resources development of the Kosi basin, T. Prasad; emerging concepts in ecological humanism, Davarat N. Pathak.

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