The costs of benefit sharing: Historical and institutional analysis of shared water development in the Ferghana Valley, the Syr Darya Basin

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2728-2752

  Soliev, Ilkhom ^a,b   Wegerich, Kai ^b   Kazbekov, Jusipbek ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Environment; Equity; Institutions; Issue linkage; Transboundary water cooperation; Water governance

Indexed keywords

COSTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CENTRAL ASIA; ENVIRONMENT; EQUITY; ISSUE LINKAGE; TRANSBOUNDARY WATER; WATER GOVERNANCE;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CENTRAL ASIA; FERGHANA VALLEY; SYR DARYA BASIN;

EID: 84938704697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7062728     Document Type: Article

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