Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?

Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped...

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Main Authors:	Dinar, Shlomi, Katz, David, De Stefano, Lucia, Blankespoor, Brian
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	water variability climate change river basin management international water treaties water allocation conflict resolution cooperation institutional mechanisms
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26854164/climate-change-water-variability-water-treaties-contribute-river-basin-resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25300

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spelling	okr-10986-253002021-04-23T14:04:29Z Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience? Dinar, Shlomi Katz, David De Stefano, Lucia Blankespoor, Brian water variability climate change river basin management international water treaties water allocation conflict resolution cooperation institutional mechanisms Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. This paper argues that attempts to assess the ability of states to deal with variability in the future rests with considering how river basins with agreements have fared in the past. The paper investigates whether basins governed by treaties witness less tension (and by extension more cooperation) over shared water in comparison with those basins not governed by treaties, using the 1948-2008 country dyads event data from the Basins at Risk project. The results provide evidence to suggest that the presence of a treaty promotes cooperation. Furthermore, the number of agreements between riparian countries has a significant positive effect on cooperation, which is robust across different specifications controlling for a broad set of climatic, geographic, political, and economic variables. 2016-11-01T14:13:51Z 2016-11-01T14:13:51Z 2016-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26854164/climate-change-water-variability-water-treaties-contribute-river-basin-resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25300 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7855 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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spellingShingle	water variability climate change river basin management international water treaties water allocation conflict resolution cooperation institutional mechanisms Dinar, Shlomi Katz, David De Stefano, Lucia Blankespoor, Brian Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7855
description	Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. This paper argues that attempts to assess the ability of states to deal with variability in the future rests with considering how river basins with agreements have fared in the past. The paper investigates whether basins governed by treaties witness less tension (and by extension more cooperation) over shared water in comparison with those basins not governed by treaties, using the 1948-2008 country dyads event data from the Basins at Risk project. The results provide evidence to suggest that the presence of a treaty promotes cooperation. Furthermore, the number of agreements between riparian countries has a significant positive effect on cooperation, which is robust across different specifications controlling for a broad set of climatic, geographic, political, and economic variables.
format	Working Paper
author	Dinar, Shlomi Katz, David De Stefano, Lucia Blankespoor, Brian
author_facet	Dinar, Shlomi Katz, David De Stefano, Lucia Blankespoor, Brian
author_sort	Dinar, Shlomi
title	Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?
title_short	Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?
title_full	Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?
title_fullStr	Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?
title_full_unstemmed	Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?
title_sort	climate change and water variability : do water treaties contribute to river basin resilience?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26854164/climate-change-water-variability-water-treaties-contribute-river-basin-resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25300
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