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1 O’Leary, D. 2009. Corruption and transparency in the water sector. In Llamas, M. R.; Martinez-Cortina, L.; Mukherji, Aditi. (Eds.). Water ethics: Marcelino Botin Water Forum 2007. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.273-294.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LLA Record No: H042084)
2 Lindblom, A.-K. 2012. Non-governmental organisations in international law. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. 559p. (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
International law ; Nongovernmental organizations ; International organizations ; Intergovernmental organizations ; Corporate culture ; Legal systems ; International relations ; State intervention ; International cooperation ; Conferences ; International agreements ; Conventions ; Humanitarian organizations ; Human rights ; Social aspects ; Discrimination ; Courts ; Committees ; Civil societies ; Democracy
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 341.2 G000 LIN Record No: H047623)
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3 Tignino, M. 2016. Joint infrastructure and the sharing of benefits in the Senegal and Niger watersheds. Water International, 41(6):835-850. (Special issue: Legal Mechanisms for Water Resources in Practice: Select Papers from the XV World Water Congress). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1214894]
International waters ; Watershed management ; International cooperation ; River basin management ; Water governance ; Corporate culture ; Infrastructure ; Conventions ; Collective action ; Legal systems ; Riparian zones ; Watercourses ; Dams ; Environmental effects ; Local communities / West Africa / Senegal / Mauritania / Mali / Guinea / Niger River / Senegal River / Diama Dam / Manantali Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047778)
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Riparian states of the Senegal and Niger watersheds have developed specific techniques for the management of water infrastructure. A common feature in both watersheds is the sharing of benefits from water facilities. Niger River basin states are still at the beginning of a shared vision process for jointly managed infrastructure and equitable benefit sharing, while Senegal River basin states have led the way in innovative forms of shared ownership and governance. Environmental protection and public participation are increasingly included in the development of joint infrastructure, but more could be done to strengthen these aspects of river governance.
4 Derman, B.; Prabhakaran, P. 2016. Reflections on the formulation and implementation of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in southern Africa from a gender perspective. Water Alternatives, 9(3):644-661. (Special issue: Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in southern Africa).
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Equity ; Human rights ; Water use ; Water supply ; Water policy ; Water governance ; Conventions ; Treaties ; Institutions ; Case studies / Southern Africa / SADC countries / South Africa / Tanzania / Zimbabwe / Mozambique
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047807)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/325-a9-3-14/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047807.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047807.pdf
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While it is claimed that the founding principles of integrated water resources management are the Dublin Principles this does not appear to be the case for Principle No. 3, which underlines the importance of women in water provision, management and safeguarding. Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are members of SADC and have signed the SADC Protocol on Women and other international human rights instruments. However, we do not see an incorporation of these instruments and other empowerment frameworks into water policies. We find that Principle No. 3 has been sidelined in the implementation of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). In examining the gender practices in these four nations of Africa, gender equality remains distant from the concerns of the water sector. We enumerate many of the commonalities among these countries in how they are marginalising women’s access to, and use of, water.
5 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy. Natural Resources Management Division. 2014. Integrated Financing Strategy (IFS) for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Sri Lanka. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy. Natural Resources Management Division. 111p.
Sustainable land management ; Financing ; Strategies ; Land degradation ; Development programmes ; National planning ; Legal frameworks ; Regulations ; Environmental legislation ; Resource management ; Mobilization ; Implementation ; Institutional development ; Coordination ; Development policies ; Budgets ; Costs ; Private sector ; Nongovernmental organizations ; International agreements ; UNCCD ; Conventions ; Funding ; Partnerships ; Innovation / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.73 G744 SRI Record No: H048067)
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6 Stephan, R. M. 2017. Climate change considerations under international groundwater law. Water International, 42(6):757-772. (Special issue: Groundwater and Climate Change - Multi-Level Law and Policy). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1351911]
Climate change adaptation ; International waters ; Groundwater ; Aquifers ; Water law ; Legal frameworks ; International agreements ; Conventions ; UNFCCC ; Water use ; Equity ; Human rights ; International cooperation ; Ecosystems ; Food production ; Monitoring ; Information exchange
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048263)
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Most of the earth’s groundwater is in transboundary aquifers. This vital water resource will certainly be affected by climate change. This article reviews the global climate change framework to investigate how it considers water, and groundwater in particular. It then considers the international legal regime applicable to groundwater resources to explore how it deals with climate change and to what extent it is compatible with the UNFCCC framework. It concludes with identifying the limits and possibilities of the groundwater regime in addressing climate change.
7 Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) Consulting; Nanjing University Ecological Research Institute of Changshu; China. National Forestry and Grassland Administration. Department of Wetlands Management. 2018. Good practices handbook for integrating urban development and wetland conservation. Slimbridge, UK: Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT). WWT Consulting. 49p.
Wetlands ; Urban development ; Good practices ; Handbooks ; Urban planning ; Integrated development ; Trends ; Environmental protection ; International cooperation ; Conventions ; Treaties ; Case studies / USA / UK / Panama / China / Republic of Korea / Japan / Australia / Singapore / Hong Kong (China) / Philippines / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048972)
https://www.wwtconsulting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Good-practices-urban-wetlands-handbook-181004-FOR-WEBSITE.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048972.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048972.pdf
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8 World Bank. 2019. Financing climate change adaptation in transboundary basins: preparing bankable projects. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 46p. (Water Global Practice Discussion Paper)
Climate change adaptation ; Financing ; International waters ; River basin management ; Project design ; Risk management ; Resilience ; International cooperation ; Conventions ; Water institutions ; International organizations ; GEF ; Investment ; Funding ; Public-private cooperation ; Developing countries ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049123)
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/31224/134236-WP-PUBLIC.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049123.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049123.pdf
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9 Joshi, Deepa; Gallant, Bryce; Hakhu, Arunima; de Silva, Sanjiv; McDougall, C.; Dubois, M.; Arulingam, Indika. 2021. Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking inclusion. Ecological Restoration, 39(1-2):36-44. (Special issue: Restoration for Whom, by Whom?) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.01-02.36]
Wetlands ; Conventions ; Gender ; Women ; Political ecology ; Inclusion ; Policies ; Social aspects ; Ecological factors ; Governance ; Guidelines ; Local communities
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050500)
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The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands emphasizes the “wise use” of wetlands by conserving the ecological character of wetlands while managing the socio-economic value these landscapes hold for different stakeholders. Reviewing the Convention obligations, resolutions, and guidelines through a feminist political ecology lens, we find them to be overtly simplistic and technocratic. A deliberately generic framing of socio-ecological interrelations and of economic trade-offs between wetland uses and users obscures broader political and social contexts which shape complex nature-society interrelations in the use, management, and governance of wetlands. Poverty, the cultural significance of wetlands—particularly for indigenous communities—and gender equality have only recently been considered in wetlands management and governance guidelines and interventions. These recent additions provide little insight on the power imbalances which shape plural values, meanings, experiences, and voices in wetlands use and governance, especially for the most marginalized of wetlands users. We welcome the call for a “reformulation” of a socio-ecological approach to managing and governing wetlands, but caution that unless wetlands governance structures and processes are re-politicized, changes in policies and approaches will likely remain rhetorical.
10 Irvine, K.; Dickens, Chris; Castello, L.; Bredin, I.; Finlayson, C. M. 2022. Vegetated wetlands: from ecology to conservation management. In Dalu, T.; Wasserman, R. J. (Eds.). Fundamentals of tropical freshwater wetlands: from ecology to conservation management. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. pp.589-639. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822362-8.00023-2]
Wetlands ; Vegetation ; Ecology ; Environmental management ; Resource conservation ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Indicators ; Biodiversity ; Environmental flows ; Monitoring ; Conventions ; Case studies / Africa / Uganda / Inner Niger Delta / Namatala Wetland
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051029)
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11 Ibrahim, I. A.; Lautze, Jonathan. 2023. How best to incorporate conjunctive water management into international water law: legal amendment, instrument coupling, or new protocol adoption?. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 23(3):333-353. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-023-09602-0]
Water management ; Conjunctive use ; International waters ; International law ; Water law ; Transboundary waters ; Legal frameworks ; Watercourses ; Conventions ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Aquifers ; Water resources ; Policies ; International agreements ; Treaties
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052015)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10784-023-09602-0.pdf?pdf=button
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052015.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052015.pdf
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International water conventions—e.g., the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses—include positive but insufficient focus on groundwater and its interaction with surface water. As such, a growing body of literature has proposed modifications to existing frameworks to enable consideration to surface and groundwater and their interactions. While this literature places considerable focus on coupling and amending existing legal frameworks, elaboration and evaluation of a new protocol on conjunctive water management comprises a key gap. To fill this gap, this paper seeks to answer the following question: does formulation and adoption of a new “conjunctive” protocol provide more value than existing proposals centered around modifications to existing law? This paper seeks to compare benefits associated with current proposals to strengthen the international legal framework for management of surface–groundwater interaction, vis-a-vis adoption of a new protocol on conjunctive management of transboundary freshwaters. To do so, the authors use doctrinal legal methods to analyze the existing main instruments globally assessing the degree to which they consider key interlinkages between surface water and groundwater. Then, the paper examines the concept of conjunctive water management and deduces tenets that should be pursued in shared waters to achieve this objective. To identify the preferred option to support conjunctive water management in international water law, the paper explores the degree to which existing proposals vs a new protocol enable an embrace of these tenets of conjunctive water management. The paper finds that while a new protocol may add greater value in advancing conjunctive water management, multiple options can and should be concurrently pursued. In particular, the authors argue that new protocols to the existing treaties must be adopted in combination with the amendment of the Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers. Benefits of doing so include more effective management of transboundary freshwater resources that are interconnected hydrologically, a less fragmented and more consistent international water regime, and ultimately more benefits accruing to the populations and environmental goods dependent on shared water resources.
12 Gari, Y.; Block, P.; Steenhuis, T. S.; Mekonnen, M.; Assefa, G.; Ephrem, A. K.; Bayissa, Y.; Tilahun, Seifu A. 2023. Developing an approach for equitable and reasonable utilization of international rivers: the Nile River. Water, 15(24):4312. (Special issue: Adaptive Water Resources Management in an Era of Changing Climatic, Environmental and Social Conditions) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w15244312]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052561)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/24/4312/pdf?version=1702957721
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052561.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052561.pdf
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The absence of a basin-wide apportionment agreement on using the Nile River equitably has been a long-standing source of disagreement among Nile riparian states. This study introduces a new approach that the riparian states can consider that quantifies the Nile River’s apportionment. The approach includes (1) developing a basin-wide database of indicators representative of the United Nations Watercourse Convention (UNWC) relevant factors and circumstances, (2) developing an ensemble of indicator weighting scenarios using various weighting methods, and (3) developing six water-sharing methods to obtain a range of apportionments for Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and the group of the White Nile Equatorial States for each weighting scenarios. The results illustrate a relatively narrow range of country-level water apportionments, even though some individual factor weights vary from 3% to 26%. Considering the entire Nile River, the water apportionment for Ethiopia ranges from 32% to 38%, Sudan and South Sudan from 25% to 33%, Egypt from 26% to 35%, and the Equatorial States from 5% to 7%. We trust that the six proposed equitable water-sharing methods may aid in fostering basin-wide negotiations toward a mutual agreement and address the dispute over water sharing.
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