Assessing side-payment and cost-sharing patterns in international water agreements: The geographic and economic connection

Political Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 412-437

  Dinar, Shlomi ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commons regimes; Conflict; Cooperation; Cost sharing regimes; Economic disparities; Geography; International freshwater agreements; International water law; Issue linkage; Negotiation; Property rights; Reciprocal externalities; Reciprocity; Side payments; Transboundary rivers; Treaty design; Unidirectional externalities

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

EID: 33744807462     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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