The Correlates of Cooperative Institutions for International Rivers

Mapping the New World Order

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 114-147

  Gerlak, Andrea K ^a   Grant, Keith A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conflict and cooperation and transboundary waters; Cooperative institutional arrangement; Cooperative institutional arrangements and depth of cooperation; Correlates of cooperative institutions for international rivers; International rivers challenge to cooperation; Mapping institutional arrangements around transboundary waters; Nile basin initiative (NBI); Transboundary resources and collective action problems; Water governance "bottom up process of norm diffusion and normative convergence"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886199965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306552.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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