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1 Zeitoun, M.. 2007. The conflict vs. cooperation paradox: Fighting over or sharing of Palestinian-Israeli groundwater? Water International, 32(1):105-120.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 7972 Record No: H040519)
2 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)
3 Lankford, B.; Bakker, K.; Zeitoun, M.; Conway, D. (Eds.) 2013. Water security: principles, perspectives and practices. Oxon, UK: Routledge. 357p. (Earthscan Water Text Series)
Water security ; Climate change ; International waters ; Water management ; Water productivity ; Water control ; Ecosystems ; River basins ; Indicators ; Households ; Sanitation ; Food security ; Sustainability ; International law ; Energy generation ; Energy consumption ; Risk management ; Economic aspects ; Private sector ; Infrastructure ; Flood control ; Human rights
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LAN Record No: H046263)
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4 Zeitoun, M; Lankford, B.; Bakker,K; Conway, D. 2013. Introduction: a battle of ideas for water security. In Lankford, B.; Bakker, K.; Zeitoun, M.; Conway, D. (Eds.). Water security: principles, perspectives and practices. London, UK: Routledge. pp.3-10. (Earthscan Water Text Series)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LNA Record No: H046264)
5 Zeitoun, M.. 2013. The web of sustainable water security. In Lankford, B.; Bakker, K.; Zeitoun, M.; Conway, D. (Eds.). Water security: principles, perspectives and practices. London, UK: Routledge. pp.11-25. (Earthscan Water Text Series)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LNA Record No: H046265)
6 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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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046543.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046543.pdf
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7 Zeitoun, M.. 2015. The relevance of international water law to later-developing upstream states. Water International, 40(7):949-968. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2015.1101527]
International waters ; Water law ; International law ; Water policy ; Aquifers ; Watercourses ; Developing countries ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Political aspects ; Equity ; Riparian zones ; Development projects / Ethiopia / Sudan / Lebanon / Palestine / Turkey / Iran / Egypt / Israel / Jordan River / Nile River / Tigris River / Euphrates River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047410)
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The relevance of the main instruments of international water law to the hydraulic development projects of later-developing upstream states is explored, for a non-legal audience. Relevance is gauged by querying common misperceptions, checking the compatibility of the instruments, and considering their effect along the Nile, Jordan and Tigris Rivers and associated aquifers. Specific principles of international water law are found to support upstream development in theory, though its relevance is threatened by incompatibility of clauses between the instruments, the erosion of norm-building processes, and a shift away from the idea that territorial sovereignty over a fluid resource should be limited.
8 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.
9 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.
10 Zeitoun, M.; Abdallah, C.; Dajani, M.; Khresat, S.; Elaydi, H.; Alfarra, A. 2019. The Yarmouk Tributary to the Jordan River I: agreements impeding equitable transboundary water arrangements. Water Alternatives, 12(3):1064-1094.
International waters ; International agreements ; Treaties ; International cooperation ; Rivers ; Water resources ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Water use ; Political aspects ; Conflicts ; Dams / Jordan / Israel / Syrian Arab Republic / Yarmouk River / Jordan River Basin / Tiberias
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049353)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/volume-12/v12issue3/555-a12-3-11/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049353.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049353.pdf
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This article explores the ways in which two international water agreements on the Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River induce or impede transformation to equitable transboundary water arrangements. The agreements in question were reached between Jordan and Syria in 1987, and between Jordan and Israel in 1994. Following a brief review of theory and a summary of the body of knowledge on 'model' agreements, the article combines official river-gauging data with interviews and textual analysis to query the text and role of the agreements, particularly in relation to key dams and other infrastructure. Both agreements are found to i) lack important clauses that could govern groundwater abstraction, environmental concerns, water quality, and the ability to adapt to changing water quality, availability and need; and ii) include both ambiguous and rigid clauses that result in generally inequitable allocation of water and thus of the benefits derived from its use. Due to their omissions and to their reflection of the asymmetries in power between the states, both agreements are found to be 'blind' to existing use, to be incapable of dealing with urgent governance needs, and to impede more equitable arrangements.
11 Zeitoun, M.; Dajani, M.; Abdallah, C.; Khresat, S.; Elaydi, H. 2019. The Yarmouk Tributary to the Jordan River II: infrastructure impeding the transformation of equitable transboundary water arrangements. Water Alternatives, 12(3):1095-1122.
International waters ; International agreements ; Treaties ; River basins ; Infrastructure ; Weirs ; Dams ; Water reservoirs ; International cooperation ; Water use ; Political aspects / Jordan / Israel / Syrian Arab Republic / Yarmouk River Basin / Jordan River Basin / Adassiyeh Weir / Wehdeh Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049354)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/volume-12/v12issue3/556-a12-3-12/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049354.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049354.pdf
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This article explores the ways in which key components of infrastructure built on the Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River induce or impede the transformation of existing transboundary water arrangements. Focussing on the Jordanian-Israeli Adassiyeh Weir and on the Jordanian-Syrian Wehdeh Dam, the article interprets archival documents, official river-gauging data, and interviews through a frame that highlights depoliticisation by hydrocracies within the politics of international infrastructure. The weir is found to be operated in a manner that prioritises Jordan's commitment to Israel when flows are low, and to be designed to bound the volume that Jordan can make use of during low or very high flows. The dam appears oversized but regulates the flow to the downstream weir when its reservoir does not lie empty. The design and operation of the infrastructure is found to partially and selectively depoliticise contentious transboundary water issues in a manner that privileges the more powerful actors. Transformation of the arrangements is impeded as the distribution and use of the flows is not questioned by the water authorities or the international diplomatic community, and alternative arrangements are not considered.
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