Flood pulses, international watercourse law, and common pool resources: a case study of the Mekong Lowlands

Arbeitspapier

In river basins around the world, formal agreements based on international watercourse law are seen as important mechanisms for promoting sustainability and cooperation. While such agreements have been effective in avoiding conflict between states in the short-term, success at the international scale can, paradoxically, undermine the foundations of ecological and social sustainability at the local scale, thereby threatening long-term stability. To investigate reasons for this problematic, cross-scale institutional interplay, the paper draws on a case study from the Mekong lowlands, a common pool resource upon which millions of people depend for their livelihoods.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 9291906999
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2005/20

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Agriculture in International Trade ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
• Thema: Mekong River Basin ; common pool resource ; international watercourse law ; flood pulse

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fox, Coleen ; Sneddon, Chris
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63273
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ