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1 Zeitoun, M.; Mirumachi, N.. 2010. Transboundary water interaction: reconsidering conflict and co-operation. In Wegerich, Kai; Warner, J. (Eds.). The politics of water: a survey. London, UK: Routledge. pp.96-118.
International waters ; River basins ; International relations ; International cooperation ; Political aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WEG Record No: H043023)
2 Mirumachi, N.. 2013. Transboundary water security: reviewing the importance of national regulatory and accountability capacities in international transboundary river basins. In Lankford, B.; Bakker, K.; Zeitoun, M.; Conway, D. (Eds.). Water security: principles, perspectives and practices. Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.166-179. (Earthscan Water Text Series)
Water security ; International waters ; River basins ; Water allocation ; Water governance ; Water use ; Public sector ; Private sector
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LAN Record No: H046273)
3 Warner, J.; Zeitoun, M.; Mirumachi, N.. 2014. How ‘soft’ power shapes transboundary water interaction. In Grafton, R. Q.; Wyrwoll, P.; White, C.; Allendes, D. (Eds.). Global water: issues and insights. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University (ANU Press). pp.51-56.
International waters ; Conflict ; International cooperation ; Political aspects / Egypt / Sudan / Ethiopia / Nile River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046543)
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4 Zeitoun, M.; Lankford, B.; Krueger, T.; Forsyth, T.; Carter, R.; Hoekstra, A. Y.; Taylor, R.; Varis, O.; Cleaver, F.; Boelens, R.; Swatuk, L.; Tickner, D.; Scott, C. A.; Mirumachi, N.; Matthews, Nathanial. 2016. Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges. Global Environmental Change, 39:143-154. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.010]
Water security ; Water policy ; Environmental effects ; Uncertainty ; Ecosystems ; Economic growth ; Rainfall-runoff relationships
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047786)
This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing reductionist approach seeks to represent uncertainty through calculable risk, links national GDP tightly to hydro-climatological causes, and underplays diversity and politics in society. When adopted uncritically, this approach limits policy-makers to interventions that may reproduce inequalities, and that are too rigid to deal with future changes in society and climate. A second, more integrative, approach is found to address a range of uncertainties, explicitly recognise diversity in society and the environment, incorporate water resources that are less-easily controlled, and consider adaptive approaches to move beyond conventional supply-side prescriptions. The resultant policy recommendations are diverse, inclusive, and more likely to reach the marginalised in society, though they often encounter policy-uptake obstacles. The article concludes by defining a route towards more effective water security research and policy, which stresses analysis that matches the state of knowledge possessed, an expanded research agenda, and explicitly addresses inequities.
5 Zeitoun, M.; Cascao, A. E.; Warner, J.; Mirumachi, N.; Matthews, Nathanial. 2017. Transboundary water interaction III: contest and compliance. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 17(2):271-294. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-016-9325-x]
International waters ; International cooperation ; International agreements ; Aquifers ; Rivers ; Political aspects ; Conflict / West Asia / Southeast Asia / Central Asia / Turkey / Iraq / Syria / India / Africa / Jordan River / Tigris River / Euphrates River / Ganges River / Mekong River / Amu Darya River / Nile River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047787)
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This paper serves international water con ict resolution efforts by examining the ways that states contest hegemonic transboundary water arrangements. The conceptual framework of dynamic transboundary water interaction that it presents integrates theories about change and counter-hegemony to ascertain coercive, leverage, and liberating mechanisms through which contest and transformation of an arrangement occur. While the mechanisms can be active through sociopolitical processes either of compliance or of contest of the arrangement, most transboundary water interaction is found to contain elements of both. The role of power asymmetry is interpreted through classi cation of intervention strategies that seek to either in uence or challenge the arrangements. Coexisting contest and compliance serve to explain in part the stasis on the Jordan and Ganges rivers (where the non-hegemons have in effect consented to the arrangement), as well as the changes on the Tigris and Mekong rivers, and even more rapid changes on the Amu Darya and Nile rivers (where the non-hegemons have confronted power asymmetry through in uence and challenge). The framework also stresses how transboundary water events that may appear isolated are more accurately read within the many sociopolitical processes and arrangements they are shaped by. By clarifying the typically murky dynamics of interstate relations over transboundary waters, furthermore, the framework exposes a new suite of entry points for hydro-diplomatic initiatives.
6 Mueller, A.; Mirumachi, N.; Tickner, D.; Louw, D.; Weston, D. 2021. Stalemate of the hydrological master variable? The challenge of implementing environmental flows in the Orange-Senqu Basin. Water International, 23p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.2004529]
River basins ; Environmental flows ; Hydrology ; Policies ; Legislation ; Institutions ; Sustainability ; Water management ; Freshwater ; Ecosystems ; International waters / Southern Africa / Lesotho / Botswana / Namibia / South Africa / Orange-Senqu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050876)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2021.2004529
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050876.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050876.pdf
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In the face of declining rivers globally, the flow regime as the key hydrological determinant for healthy freshwater ecosystems is receiving unprecedented attention. This study investigates the challenge of implementing environmental flows in the Orange–Senqu basin in Southern Africa by assessing progress and its key factors during 1998 and 2013. Based on 22 interviews, the study shows that despite an advanced understanding of e-flows and its requirements, there have been effective implementation actions in only a few river systems to give effect to these e-flow requirements. Ineffective implementing institutions and a challenging basin context are more responsible than largely sufficient policies and legislation
7 Mirumachi, N.; Hurlbert, M. 2022. Reflecting on twenty years of international agreements concerning water governance: insights and key learning. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 22(2):317-332. (Special issue: Lessons Learnt from International Environmental Agreements: Celebrating 20 years of International Environmental Agreements (INEA)) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-022-09564-9]
Water governance ; International agreements ; Transboundary waters ; Equity ; Water, sanitation and hygiene ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Political aspects ; Public-private partnerships ; Decision making ; Water allocation ; Human rights ; Water law ; Climate change ; Water quality ; Frameworks ; Indicators
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051178)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10784-022-09564-9.pdf
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The purpose of this article is to examine the research advanced in the journal, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics that represents key insights into international agreements on water and their political, legal, economic and cross-disciplinary dimensions for water governance. The article analyses evidence and lessons learnt over the last twenty years to inform policy through a review of theoretical advances, innovations in principles and policy instruments, outcomes of problem-solving and knowledge gained regarding water agreements and associated institutions. Important international agreement principles of no significant harm and economic frames of water as a ‘commons’ advance equity and community of interest in relation to water. The studies on water, sanitation and hygiene point to the ways the role of the state can be advanced in achieving Sustainable Development Goals and in complex contexts of water scarcity and public private partnerships. Cross-disciplinary learnings substantiate the existence and utility of multiple water frames in legal arrangements and use of multiple policy instruments. Cross-disciplinary insights are significant in addressing equity, whether through the nascent development of water indicators or in advancing social learning. Water governance frameworks increasingly focus on adaptation by incorporating multiple stakeholders. These findings that advance equity and inclusivity are tempered by crucial lessons in our understanding of the very contested, power-laden nature of water governance that impact agency at multiple scales and policy coordination across sectors of water, food and energy.
8 Matthews, N.; Dalton, J.; Matthews, J.; Barclay, H.; Barron, J.; Garrick, D.; Gordon, L.; Huq, S.; Isman, T.; McCornick, P.; Meghji, A.; Mirumachi, N.; Moosa, S.; Mulligan, M.; Noble, A.; Petryniak, O.; Pittock, J.; Queiroz, C.; Ringler, C.; Smith, Mark; Turner, C.; Vora, S.; Whiting, L. 2022. Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues. Water Security, 17:100126. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100126]
Food systems ; Water management ; Resilience ; Water governance ; Water systems ; Innovation ; Decision making ; Participation ; Policies ; Water resources ; Climate change ; Ecosystems ; Learning ; Information dissemination
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051489)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312422000177/pdfft?md5=925a0cf228e088fef886a408882c02f5&pid=1-s2.0-S2468312422000177-main.pdf
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Ensuring resilient food systems and sustainable healthy diets for all requires much higher water use, however, water resources are finite, geographically dispersed, volatile under climate change, and required for other vital functions including ecosystems and the services they provide. Good governance for resilient water resources is a necessary precursor to deciding on solutions, sourcing finance, and delivering infrastructure. Six attributes that together provide a foundation for good governance to reduce future water risks to food systems are proposed. These attributes dovetail in their dual focus on incorporating adaptive learning and new knowledge, and adopting the types of governance systems required for water resilient food systems. The attributes are also founded in the need to greater recognise the role natural, healthy ecosystems play in food systems. The attributes are listed below and are grounded in scientific evidence and the diverse collective experience and expertise of stakeholders working across the science-policy interface: Adopting interconnected systems thinking that embraces the complexity of how we produce, distribute, and add value to food including harnessing the experience and expertise of stakeholders s; adopting multi-level inclusive governance and supporting inclusive participation; enabling continual innovation, new knowledge and learning, and information dissemination; incorporating diversity and redundancy for resilience to shocks; ensuring system preparedness to shocks; and planning for the long term. This will require food and water systems to pro-actively work together toward a socially and environmentally just space that considers the water and food needs of people, the ecosystems that underpin our food systems, and broader energy and equity concerns.
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