The research will investigate how increasing demands on global water resources and the increased uncertainty and variability caused by global climate change may impact the governance of transboundary waters. Selected case studies will be conducted in five major basins: the Mekong; Jordan; Ganges-Brahmaputra; Nile and Niger basins. Each case contributes to provide the analysis on how both the potential impacts of climate change, and the discourse surrounding it, will affect the governance of transboundary waters.
The project aims to accelerate the existing partnership between academia and the policy institutions. It will produce a number of academic papers and a published book, entitled “Transboundary water management and the climate change debate”. This book will analyse the current status of the climate change discussions both globally and at the transboundary basin level.
Project Info
- Project team: Anders Jägerskog, Joakim Öjendal (SIWI Associate, Gothenburg University), Ashok Swain (Uppsala University), Stina Hansson (Gothenburg University)
- Partners: Uppsala University, Gothenburg University
- Funded by Sida
- Timeline: 2011 – 2013
- Links and resources:
- Anton Earle, Ana Elisa Cascao, Anders Jagerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Ojendal, (forthcoming) “Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate”
- Anders Jägerskog. (2011) “Climate change and land acquisition’s challenge transboundary water management“. New Routes, September 2011
- Jägerskog, A., Cascao, A., Hårsmar, M. and Kim. K., (2012), “Land Acquisitions: How Will They Impact Transboundary Waters?“. Report Nr. 30, SIWI, Stockholm.
- Ashok Swain, (2012) “Global Climate Change and Challenges for International River Agreements“, International Journal on Sustainable Society, vol. 4, nos _, 2012, pp. 72-87.
- Ashok Swain (2012), “Politics or Development: Sharing of International Rivers in the South” in Joakim Öjendal, Stina Hansson, Stina; and Sofie Hellberg, Eds., Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed (New York: Springer, 2012).
- Ashok Swain, (2011) “Challenges for Water Sharing in the Nile Basin: Changing Geo-Politics and Changing Climate“, Hydrological Science Journal, vol 56, no. 4. 2011, pp. 687-702.
- Ashok Swain (2011), “South Asia, its Environment and Regional Institutions“, in Lorraine Elliott & Shaun Breslin eds., Comparative Environmental Regionalism (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 76-91.
- Ashok Swain, Ranjula Bali Swain, Anders Themnér and Florian Krampe (2011), Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflicts in Southern Africa, (Pretoria: Global Crisis Solutions, 2011).
- Ashok Swain, Ranjula Bali Swain, Anders Themnér and Florian Krampe, “Zambezi Basin: A Risk Zone of Climate Change and Economic Vulnerability“, New Routes, no. 3, 2012, pp. 17-20.
- Ashok Swain & Qazal Jamali, “The China Factor: New Challenges for Nile Basin Cooperation“, New Routes, no. 3, 2011, pp. 7-10.
- Ashok Swain & Florian Krampe, “Transboundary Rivers and Climate Change: African and Asian Rivers“. Conflict Trends, vol. 2, 2011, pp: 16-21.
- Öjendal, Joakim, Stina Hansson & Sofie Hellberg (eds.), 2012, Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed – The Case of the Lower Mekong Region, Springer, London.
- Öjendal, Joakim, Stina Hansson (lead) & Sofie Hellberg,2012, ‘INTRO: Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed . The Case of the Lower Mekong Basin’, in Öjendal, Joakim, Stina Hansson & Sofie Hellberg (eds.), 2012, Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed. The Case of the Lower Mekong Region, Springer, London.
- Öjendal, Joakim & Kurt Mørck Jensen, 2012, ‘Politics and Development of the Mekong River Basin – Transboundary dilemmas and participatory ambitions’, in Öjendal, Joakim, Stina Hansson & Sofie Hellberg (eds.), 2012, Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed – The Case of the Lower Mekong Region, Springer, London.
- Öjendal, Joakim, Stina Hansson & Sofie Hellberg,2012, ‘CONCLUSION: Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed – The Case of the Lower Mekong Basin’, in Öjendal, Joakim, Stina Hansson & Sofie Hellberg (eds.), 2012, Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed – The Case of the Lower Mekong Region, Springer, London.
