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A Conceptual Framework for the Institutional Analysis of Transboundary Water Resources Management: Theoretical Perspectives

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Transboundary Water Resources Management

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It has become increasingly evident over the past several decades that natural resource and environmental issues transcend the maps that humans have used to divide up the globe. Enhanced greenhouse warming, depletion of stratospheric ozone, acid rain, as well as conventional air and water pollution clearly do not heed the artificial lines on maps. The same can be said about natural resources, which are the shared heritage of the citizens of more than one jurisdiction. The emplacement of political lines often disadvantages one group of resource users while benefiting or privileging another.

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  1. Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Marvin Waterstone

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 540 06, Greece

    Jacques Ganoulis

  2. Systems and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 87521, USA

    Lucien Duckstein

  3. Institute for Water Pollution Control, Water Resources Research Centre, H-1095, Budapest, Kvassay J. u. 1, Hungary

    Peter Literathy

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0531, USA

    Istvan Bogardi

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Waterstone, M. (1996). A Conceptual Framework for the Institutional Analysis of Transboundary Water Resources Management: Theoretical Perspectives. 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_2

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