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Hydropolitics, the politics of water, has increasing relevance to national & international security in general & to the field of security studies in particular. The relationship between environmental threats & security poses unforeseen challenges for academics & practitioners. Understanding how nations engage in conflict & cooperation over water is related to understanding the relationship between hydropolitics & security. Therefore, hydropolitics should be considered in the definition of security & in the field of security studies. The manner in which states conduct their hydropolitics with one another can be analyzed through particular theoretical frameworks associated with the field of international relations. Adapted from the source document.

"International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholarship tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward war, Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Dinar prove that there are many examples of and mechanisms for more peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change. The authors base these arguments on both global empirical analyses and case studies. Using numerous examples that focus on North America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, this book asks scholars and policy makers to consider strategies and incentives to help lessen conflict and motivate cooperation under scarcity and increased variability of water resources." - Provided by publisher

The establishment of international environmental institutions is often predicated on the assumption that cooperation is politically feasible and that regime formation is viable. However, the provision of many environmental services remains vulnerable to asymmetries in interests that impede both cooperation and adaptation. We examine governance structures that internalize externalities under asymmetrical conditions aggravated by abrupt and/or significant changes in political circumstances (in this context, the eruption of political violence which, in this article, we refer to as political variability). We analyze the change over time in Israel's strategies for stream and river rehabilitation undertaken as a response to continued runoff of wastewater from Palestinian territories. We find that abrupt political changes that negatively affect relations among the parties undermine the foundations for cooperative solutions. In the Israeli-Palestinian case, Israel has responded by adopting a position of "unilateral environmentalism." Such a non-cooperative policy was deemed the best possible option for addressing the transboundary pollution problems, in stark contrast to the model of cooperation that underlies most IEAs. Yet, we find that while unilateral environmentalism may safeguard a country's immediate political and environmental interests, it also entails various risks in the medium and long term.

Introduces a journal symposium on international rivers governance. Adapted from the source document.