Tributary-level transboundary water law in the Syr Darya: overlooked stories of practical water cooperation

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.coverage.countryKazakhstan
cg.coverage.countryKyrgyzstan
cg.coverage.countryTajikistan
cg.coverage.countryUzbekistan
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KZ
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KG
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TJ
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UZ
cg.coverage.regionCentral Asia
cg.creator.identifierBunyod Holmatov: 0000-0001-9267-7008
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-015-9308-3en
cg.identifier.wlethemeManaging Resource Variability and Competing Use
cg.issn1567-9764en
cg.issn1573-1553en
cg.issue6en
cg.journalInternational Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economicsen
cg.volume16en
dc.contributor.authorHolmatov, Bunyoden
dc.contributor.authorLautze, Jonathan F.en
dc.contributor.authorKazbekov, Jusipbek S.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-18T06:37:26Zen
dc.date.available2015-12-18T06:37:26Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/69366
dc.titleTributary-level transboundary water law in the Syr Darya: overlooked stories of practical water cooperationen
dcterms.abstractConventional emphasis on basin-wide water management has often resulted in the formation of transboundary water law on the basin or near basin scale. In Central Asia, however, the Syr Darya Basin possesses an abundance of tributary-level cooperative agreements that guide and codify water sharing and management on the sub-basin scale. To understand the volume and nature of this cooperation, this paper compiled and analyzed a set of agreements that apply to small transboundary tributaries (STTs) in the Syr Darya Basin. The paper assembled the largest collection of STT water agreements—123 in total—and classified such documents according to a range of criteria including: purpose and objectives, water management issues, and operational mechanisms. Results of this work highlight a rise in sub-basin-scale cooperation in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a time when large-scale cooperation appeared tenuous; a practical orientation to transboundary water management at a small scale; and an abundance of treaties of short time duration. These findings present options related to scale, time duration and focus of transboundary water law that can help inform future treaty development.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.available2015-10-22
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHolmatov, Bunyod; Lautze, Jonathan; Kazbekov, Jusipbek. 2015. Tributary-level transboundary water law in the Syr Darya: overlooked stories of practical water cooperation. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 35p. (Online first). doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-015-9308-3en
dcterms.extentpp. 873-907en
dcterms.issued2016-12
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.subjectinternational watersen
dcterms.subjectcooperationen
dcterms.subjectwater lawen
dcterms.subjectwater managementen
dcterms.subjectriversen
dcterms.subjectriver basinsen
dcterms.subjectwatersheden
dcterms.subjectinternational agreementsen
dcterms.subjecttreatiesen
dcterms.subjectlawen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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