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Author Yetim, Müşerref, author.

Title Negotiating international water rights : resource conflict in Turkey, Syria and Iraq / Müşerref Yetim.

Publication Info. London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series International library of human geography ; 38
International library of human geography ; 38.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Theoretical Foundations; 1. The Nature of the Problem; 2. Realist Perspectives; 3. Liberal Perspectives; 4. A Bargaining Framework for International Water Rights; Part II Case Study; 5. Bargaining for Water Rights in the Euphrates and Tigris Watercourse; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.
Summary "Transboundary watercourses account for an estimated 60 per cent of global freshwater flow and support the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Yet the indeterminate status of water rights in many international watercourses presents a problem and many attempts to resolve water rights issue have failed. Knowing how and where negotiations fail is essential if successful resolution is to be achieved. Muserref Yetim's important book seeks to illustrate a means to the peaceful resolution of natural resource based conflicts. Through a detailed study of the Tigris-Euphrates water conflict, involving Turkey, Syria and Iraq, countries of vital security interest to the world at large, the author clarifies the collective action dilemmas confronting Middle Eastern watercourses and reveals the bargaining bottlenecks where negotiations fail. She develops an original framework that explains bargaining failures and proposes conditions for creating a new property rights regime among watercourse states that offers a route to governing their shared water resources in ways that are politically, economically and environmentally sound. In almost all water scarce regions, international water resources are subject to intense unilateral exploitation in a highly competitive fashion. And as demand for freshwater continues to increase, through increasing urbanization and the continuing development of societies, so the issue of how such shared water resources can best be governed is becoming vitally important. Negotiating International Water Rights offers both a timely contribution to a matter of international concern and important insights into resource conflict in countries of vital security interest to the world at large."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Subject Water resources development -- Law and legislation -- Euphrates River Watershed.
Water resources development -- Law and legislation.
Water resources development -- Law and legislation -- Tigris River Watershed.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Yetim, Müşerref. Negotiating international water rights. London : I.B. Tauris, 2016 1784535524 9781784535520 (OCoLC)920714068
ISBN 9780857729538 (electronic book)
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