China's International Transboundary Rivers

Politics, Security and Diplomacy of Shared Water Resources

Lei Xie, Jia Shaofeng (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-68906-0 (ISBN)

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China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect China’s relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia.

Since China is an upstream state on most of its shared transboundary rivers, the country’s international water policy is at the core of Asia’s water security. These water disputes have had strong implications for China’s interstate relations, and also influenced its international water policy alongside domestic concerns over water resource management.

This book investigates China’s policy responses to domestic water crises and examines China’s international water policy as well as its strategy in dealing with international cooperation. The authors describe the key elements of water diplomacy in Asia which demonstrate varying degrees of effectiveness of environmental agreements. It shows how China has established various institutional arrangements with neighbouring countries, primarily in the form of bilateral agreements over hydrological data exchange. Detailed case studies are included of the Mekong, Brahmaputra, Ili and Amur rivers.

Lei Xie is Professor in Governance at Shandong University. She is also a Research Fellow at Nottingham University. Before joining Shandong University, she lectured in University of Exeter and was a visiting scholar of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on global environmental governance and transnational environmental movement with particular interest on the international cooperation of transbondary river basins. She is author of Environmental Activism in China (Routledge, 2009). Shaofeng Jia is Deputy Director of the Center for Water Resources Research, CAS, Vice Chair of Special Committee for Water Resources, the Hydraulic Engineering Society of China, editorial board member of Water International, Geographic Research, Geographic Progress, and Journal of Economics of Water Resources.. His main interests include water resources management, integrated basin management and regional sustainable development, He has authored more than 100 papers and 5 books.

1. China’s transboundary rivers: politics, diplomacy and security: an introduction 2. The governance of water resources in China 3. China’s policy over international rivers: Perception and diplomatic practices 4. Theoretical debate: water diplomacy 5. Southeast Asia: China’s water diplomacy on the Mekong River 6. South Asia: China’s evolving attitude over the GBM 7. Central Asia: Sino-Kazakh water diplomacy on Ili and Irtysh Rivers 8. Northeast Asia: Sino-Russian cooperation over the Amur River 9. Comparison and conclusions 10. Policy recommendations

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2017
Reihe/Serie	Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Zusatzinfo	35 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white; 49 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-138-68906-8 / 1138689068
ISBN-13	978-1-138-68906-0 / 9781138689060
Zustand	Neuware