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Institutional Cooperation on Water Resources Management in Central Asia

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Water Resources in Central Asia: International Context

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The mandate, structure and functioning of Central Asian institutions of water resources management reflect the historic circumstances of their creation and evolution. Established on the remnants of the Soviet system of water resources management, the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) conserved the priority of irrigation over the energy sector and environment protection. Despite clearly expressed political will by the 2009 IFAS Summit, member states were unable to improve the obsolete legal basis and institutional weaknesses of the Fund. IFAS should undergo a thorough reform to enable Central Asian states to effectively address present and future challenges, like climate change adaptation.

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  1. Center for Central Asia Research Budapest, Budapest Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary

    Marton Krasznai

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  1. Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

    Sergey S. Zhiltsov

  2. Engineering Res. Prod. Center for Water, Management, Land Reclamation and Ecology, Moscow, Russia

    Igor S. Zonn

  3. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Andrey G. Kostianoy

  4. S.Yu. Witte Moscow University, Moscow, Russia

    Aleksandr V. Semenov

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Krasznai, M. (2017). Institutional Cooperation on Water Resources Management in Central Asia. In: Zhiltsov, S., Zonn, I., Kostianoy, A., Semenov, A. (eds) Water Resources in Central Asia: International Context. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 85. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2017_194

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