Conflict Management of Water Resources

This title was first published in 2002: Now that the Cold War is over, ethnic and regional conflicts are emerging over resources and the environment. The management of water, the lifeblood of any country, is becoming a vital issue. This volume offers a study of conflict management of water resources. It includes some selected papers presented at an international meeting, held at the Mahatma Gandhi Center of Conflict Prevention and Management in Ahmedabad, India. Other invited papers have also been included in the collection. Obviously it was not possible to address here all aspects of the vast field of water management. The main focus of this work is the management of water conflict and its implications for peace.

Part 1: Implications And Resolutions Of Water Resource Management Issues 1. Introduction Manas Chatterji 2. The Water Sector in the Middle-East: Potential Conflict Resolutions Saul Arlosoroff 3. The Hydro-Political Implications of the Oslo Agreements: An Israeli Perspective Martin Sherman 4. Water Management in the People's Republic of China Weiluo Wang 5. Water Resources in China's Yellow River Delta Sam Cole 6. Managing the Nile River: The Role of Sub-Basin Co-operation Ashok Swain Part 2: Co-Operative Opportunites And Emerging Challenges 7. Sustainability and Conflict Management: Towards a Co-operative Manual Keith Akiva Lehrer 8. Water Management in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin: Emerging Challenges for the 21st Century Jayanta Bandyopadhyay 9. Water Resources and Environmental Management Mohan Munasinghe 10. Some Issues Related to Conflict Management of Water Resources in Nepal M. M. Sainju 11. Environmental and Economic Conflicts: Lessons from Europe Allain Sallez 12. Natural Resources, Diplomacy and Security in East Asia Nagaharu Hayabusa 13. Running Out of Water, Running Out of Time Arun P. Elhance 14. Changing Approaches to Water Resource Management: The Case of the British Columbia Gulf Islands David G. Banks 15. The Narmada Project: Patterns of Trans-State Confrontation, Co-operation and Conflict Management Pravin Sheth 16. Identifying Management Strategies of Common Pool Regimes: Groundwater Resources M. Dinseh Kumar 17. Management of Water Resources Through Panchayati Raj Institutions: A Case Study Jayant Patil 18. Management of Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater in the Bengal Delta Plain P. Bhattacharya and A. B. Mukherjee 19. Water Resources and Mountain Communities S. K. Mattoo 20. Imperative Prospects of Indo-Nepal Co-operation for the Optimum Water Resources Development of the Kosi Basin T. Prasad 21. Emerging Concepts in Ecological Humanism Devarat N. Pathak