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AbstractHydropolitics is a relatively new addition to the field of international security and negotiation studies. This article analyzes water, conflict and cooperation in general terms and then examines the case studies presented in this issue within the context of international relations and negotiation studies. In so doing, the article offers a framework in which to consider hydropolitics. This framework supports a process-oriented approach that emphasizes the international context, the regional context and its politics, pertinent intervening variables and the interactions among the parties within their respective negotiations. It demonstrates the necessity of such an integrated approach when analyzing hydropolitical relations among states.

"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

Introduction: Course Syllabus -- Globalization and Global Policies -- Concepts and Principles of Conflict -- Concepts and Principles of Negotiation -- Domestic Interests and International Negotiations -- Concepts and Principles of Cooperation -- Climate Change Policy -- The CDM: A Cooperation Mechanism? -- Shaping Global Policies by International Organizations and NGOs.

Front -- Contents -- 1 AGRICULTURAL REFORM -- 2 AGRICULTURE: DIVERSIFICATION AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 3 LAND REFORM: HOW WILL THE FUTURE LOOK? -- 4 LAND MARKETS AND TENURE -- 5 DISRUPTION AND CONTINUITY IN BULGARIA'S AGRARIAN REFORM -- 6 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM IN BULGARIAN AGRICULTURE -- 7 FOOD CONSUMPTION DURING ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION -- 8 AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 9 PRICE POLICIES DURING TRANSFORMATION -- 10 AGRICULTURAL TRADE: POST-REFORM CHALLENGES -- 11 THE GRAIN SECTOR: WHEAT IS KING -- 12 WINE AND THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL -- 13 THE COTTON INDUSTRY IN DECAY -- 14 LIQUIDATION COMMITTEES, LAND COMMISSION AND NO FRUIT -- 15 IMPROVING MARKETS AND MARKETING' -- 16 DEVELOPING HUMAN CAPITAL -- 17 CREDIT FOR AGRICULTURE DURING THE TRANSITION -- 18 CREDIT SUBSIDIES TO SUPPORT AGRICUL TURE -- 19 AGRICUL TURAL TRANSFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW

Water resource management throughout the world is a very complicated issue, involving various aspects and dimensions and a well-coordinated set of policies. A well-designed water policy is a multi-faceted concerted intervention, which could be specific to just one set of political and physical socio-economic conditions. A framework to analyse the interaction between policy design and implementation can assist in improving both of these in various physical, economic and political situations.This book focuses on the interaction between policy making and strategic behaviour of policy makers, wate

This is a well researched, thorough and impressive work on climate change and agriculture in Africa. I recommend it to students, researchers and practitioners working on climate change issues'. Jabavu Clifford Nkomo, senior programme specialist, IDRC. This landmark book encompasses a comprehensive assessment of the potential economic impacts of future climate change, and the value of adaptation measures in Africa for different zones, regions, countries and farm types. Researchers developed and applied multiple analytical procedures to assess quantitatively how climate affects current agricultu.

This book considers conflict and cooperation along international rivers, and examines negotiated agreements through analysis of available treaty texts.

As a result of the growing global economy and a development model with entrepreneurialism at its heart, women in remote and high-mountain societies in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northernmost part of Pakistan, have begun to venture outside the traditional and gendered economies by embarking on new forms of income-generating activities. This ethnographic study of women entrepreneurs in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, provides a critical analysis of the promotion of women's entrepreneurship as a key strategy by development organizations to address gender inequities. The ethnographic accounts of women's diverse experiences as entrepreneurs featured in this article demonstrate that the neoliberal development model and the global capitalist market serve as an opportunity for women in these high-mountain communities that allows them to push against socio-cultural pressures. Within these environments, women strive to become economic actors and make space for themselves in conventionally male-dominated economic trades such as business and entrepreneurship. In contrast to the NGOs' narratives that glorify women as entrepreneurs in uncontentious ways, my ethnographic research views women as complex subjectivities whose lived experiences are embedded within socio-economic, religious and political dimensions of notions of legitimacy that dictate women's participation in public spaces. The ethnographic accounts in this article illustrate how women navigate, negotiate, contest and reproduce the patriarchal sovereignties and development regimes.