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The last 20 to 30 years are characterized by significant changes in the planning, design, and management of water resources all over the planet. Mounting concerns about the environmental impacts of human activities, potential climatic shifts, expanding populations and demands as well as new knowledge are all expressions of the pressing need to develop alternative institutional schemes for managing in an integrated manner scarce natural resources. Many nations and regions have increasingly been turning attention to both streamlining existing administrative mechanisms and to introducing innovative institutional arrangements with regard to quantitative and qualitative aspects of their water resources. At the same time, the political significance of water becomes most important not only because of its scarcity in densely populated regions, but also because of its sharing across national boundaries.
This paper has been expanded and benefitted from revisions of two earlier communications: “Incentives for Regional Cooperation with Regard to Shared Water Resources,” (UN Freshwater Consultative Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, December 1993) and from “Transboundary Water Conflicts and Alternative Dispute Resolution” (VIIIth International Water Association Congress, Cairo, Egypt, 1994).
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Vlachos, E. (1996). Hydrodiplomacy and Dispute Resolution in Private Water Resources Conflicts. In: Ganoulis, J., Duckstein, L., Literathy, P., Bogardi, I. (eds) Transboundary Water Resources Management. Nato ASI Series, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61438-5_3
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