Water. A Source of Conflict or Cooperation?
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Author(s): V. I. Grover (Ed.)
Publisher: Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781578085118
Format: hardback
360pp
Price: $57.50
Review Date: 08 November 2007
Review: Conflicts can be political, social, economic, institutional or military. Water is a natural resource that can flow freely from country to country. All the countries want sovereign rights over the water flowing through their lands. This can be a source of conflict. This book looks at water conflict in different scenarios, such as trans-boundary issues, multiple stakeholder conflicts, conflicts due to a scarcity of water caused by unequal distribution or change in water quality (due to climate change or changes in precipitation pattern). The authors are from Asia, Africa, Australia, North America and the South Pacific, and comparisons are made between the continents.