CE 397  Transboundary Water Resources

Reading List

World Commission on Dams

World Commission on Dams (Editor), Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making, Earthscan Publications; 1st edition (February 1, 2001), ISBN: 1853837989, (Available online: http://www.dams.org/report/contents.htm)

Power Point Presentation on WCD by Laton Carr and Elaine Darby https://webspace.utexas.edu/darbyee/A%20Study%20of%20Dams.ppt?uniq=hujyxp

Multi-stakeholder Processes:  The Legacy of the World Commission on Dams (see assignments for link)

WCD website: http://www.dams.org/

“World Bank says it won't abide by World Commission on Dams”
“The Creation of the World Commission on Dams”
“The World Bank Position on the Report of the WCD”

Global Environment Facility
 

Duda, A., (2002) Monitoring and Evaluation Working Paper 10, GEF Corporate Monitoring and Evaluation Team (available online)

GEF (2004) Protecting International Waters Sustaining livelihoods, Lessons for the future, November 2004 (available online)

GEF, (1996). Operational Strategy. Global Environment Facility, Washington, DC. (Available online)

GEF (2005) Achieving the Millenium development Goals. A GEF progress Report, September 2005 (available online)

GEF website: http://www.thegef.org, http://www.thegef.org/What_is_the_GEF/what_is_the_gef.html

Uitto, J. I. , Duda, A. (2004),  Management of transboundary water resources: lessons from international cooperation for conflict prevention, The Geographical Journal, Volume 168 Issue 4 Page 365  - December 2002   doi:10.1111/j.0016-7398.2002.00062.x (available online)

 Nonprofit Organizations

Chitale, Madhav A.  “The Narmada Project.”  Water Resources Development.  13.2   pp 167-179.  1997.   (See section at end about NGO involvement)

International Network of Basin Organizations, “International organizations urge G8 world leaders to allocate funds to promote cooperation over transboundary waters for development, security and peace.”   May 30, 2003  (available online)

Global Water - http://www.globalwater.org/
Green Cross International - http://www.greencrossinternational.net/index1.html
Perspectives on Freshwater – Issues and Recommendations of NGOs: http://www.earthsummit2002.org/freshwater/Freshwater%20Report.pdf

Water For People - http://www.water4people.org/index_main.htm
World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) - http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/freshwater/index.cfm

Valuation of Environmental Systems

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/envext.nsf/44ByDocName/EnvironmentalEconomicsandItsApplicationsEnvironmentalValuation  (intro to concept)

http://csf.colorado.edu/sristi/papers/ecoethic.html  (social values)

http://www.ecosystemvaluation.org/  (specifics on subject)

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/envext.nsf/44ByDocName/EnvironmentalEconomicsandItsApplicationsEnvironmentalValuation 

http://www.emawebsite.org/about_ema.htm 

http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-Resources-126-biodprospect.pdf

http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-DP-99-06.pdf

http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-Resources-130-price-right.pdf

Environmental Taxes

National Wildlife Federation A New Tool For Water Quality: Making Watershed-Based Trading Work For You

Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools For Integration http://reports.eea.eu.int/Environmental_Issues_No_18/en/envissue18.pdf

Water Availability

Allan, T., ‘Virtual water’: a long term solution for water short Middle Eastern economies?, Water Issues Group, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 1997

Biswas, Asit K., Management of International Waters: Opportunities and Constraints, in Sustainable Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins, A.K. Biswas and J.I. Uitto (eds.), United Nations University Press, Tokyo, pp. 1-16, 2001.

Chou, Sophie, Russ Bezark, and Anne Wilson, Water Scarcity in River Basins as a Security Problem, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Environmental change and Security Project, Washington DC, pp. 96-105, 1997

Elhance, Arun P., Introduction, Hydropolitics in the Third World: Conflict and Cooperation in International River Basins, United States Institute for Peace, Washington DC, 1999, pp. 3-23.

Falkenmark, Malin, The Massive Water Scarcity Now Threatening Africa-Why Isn't it Being Addressed?, Ambio, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1989.

Giordano, M. and A. Wolf, Sharing Waters: Post-Rio International Water Management, Natural Resources Forum, 27: 163-171, 2003 (Available Online)

Gleick, Peter H., Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993. 

Gleick, Peter H., Basic Water Requirements for Human Activities: Meeting Basic Needs, Water International, Vol. 21, pp. 83-92, 1996.

Gleick, Peter H., The World's Water: http://www.worldwater.org/

Gleick, Peter H., The World's Water 1998-99, Island Press, Washington DC, 1998. 

Gleick, Peter H., The Human Right To Water, Water Policy, Vol.1, No. 5, pp. 487-503, 1999.  (available online at: http://www.pacinst.org/waterpub.html) 

Gleick, Peter H., The Changing Water Paradigm: A Look at Twenty-first Century Water Resources Development, Water International, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 127-138, 2000 (available online at: http://www.pacinst.org/waterpub.html).

Gleick, Peter H., Coping With the Global Fresh Water Dilemma:  The State, Market Forces, and Global Governance, in The Global Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for International Cooperation, P.S. Chasek (ed.), United Nations University Press, Tokyo, pp.204-222, 2001.  

Gleick, Peter H., The World's Water 2000-01, Island Press, Washington DC, 2001. 

Lundqvist, Jan and Peter Gleick, Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World, Stockholm Environment Institute, 1997.  (available from the instructor)

Postel, Sandra L., Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, W. W. Norton Publishers, New York, 1997.

Postel, S., B. Richter, Rivers for Life : Managing Water for People and Nature, Island Press, Paperback, 2003, ISBN: 1559634448, See: http://www.freshwaters.org/

Shiklomanov, Igor. A., Appraisal and Assessment of World Water Resources, Water International Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 11-32, 2000  (available online at: http://www.iwra.siu.edu/win/win2000/win03-00/shiklomanov.pdf)

Shiklomanov, Igor. A., World Water Resources, A New Appraisal and Assessment for the 21st Century, UNESCO, IHP Non-Serial Publications in Hydrology, Paris, 1998 (available online at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?database=ged&no=112671)

United Nations, Register of International Rivers, Water Supply and Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1978

de Villiers, Marq, Water: The Fate of our Most Precious Resource, Houghton-Mifflin, New York, 2000.

Wolf, Aaron T., et al., International River Basins of the World, Int'l J. of Water Resources Development, Vol. 15, No. 4, Dec 1999.  (available online at: http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/publications/register/) (see also: Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements, UNEP, 2003  http://www.unep.org/Documents/Default.asp?DocumentID=67&ArticleID=3813)

Free Trade and the Environment

This is a document produced by the CEC presented at the North American Symposium on assessing the linkages between trade and the environment (October 2000).  It is an excellent paper!  http://www.cec.org/files/pdf/ECONOMY/FreeTrade-en-fin.pdf

Browse the CEC web page.  I will talk about citizens’ submissions.  So look at the various cases under >>Citizens Submission on Enforcement Matters>>Status  http://www.cec.org/citizen/status/index.cfm?varlan=english

Global Water Assessment

Water Rights

Akmansoy, Sandra and Daene McKinney, Aral Sea Water Rights, CRWR Online Report 98-3, Univ. of Texas, Austin, 1998 (Availble online)

Beaumont, Peter, The 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Its Strengths and Weaknesses from a Water Management Perspective and the Need for New Workable Guidelines, Water Resources Development, Vol. 16, No. 4, 475–495, 2000 (available online)

Canoperna, D., Patterns of Cooperation in International Water Law: Principles and Institutions, Nat. Res. J. 25:563, 1985.

Dellapenna, J.W., The customary international law of transboundary fresh waters, Int. J. Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, pp.264–305, 2001 (available online)

Draper, Stephen E., International Duties and Obligations for Transboundary Water Sharing, J. of Water Resources Planning and Management, Vol. 123, No. 6, pp. 344-349, 1997.

Green Cross International, National Sovereignty and International Watercourses, March, 2000. http://web243.petrel.ch/pdf/Sovereignty.pdf

Hunter, D., J. Salzman, and D. Zaelke, International Environmental Law and Policy, Foundation Press, New York, 2002.

International Law Association, Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Water of International Rivers (1966)

McCaffrey, S. C., The Law of International Watercourses:  Non-Navigational Uses, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 

Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region (1995)

Revised Protocol on Shared Watercourses in the Southern African Development Community (2000)

Solanes, Miguel "Legal and Institutional Aspects of River Basin Development" Water International, 17, pp. 116-123, 1992

UN/ECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (1992)

UN Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997)

UN/ECE Draft Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (final draft as adopted June 17, 1999)

Waterbury, J., Between Unilateralism and Comprehensive Accords: Modest Steps toward Cooperation in International River Basins, Water Resources Development, Vol. 13, No. 3, 279-289, 1997 (available online)

Wolf, Aaron T. Criteria for Equitable Allocations: The Heart of International Water Conflict, Natural Resources Forum. Vol. 23, No. 1,  pp. 3-30, 1999 (available online).

Caspian

Caspian Sea Region: Environmental Issues. (Available Online).

Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region: An Overview of Cooperation and Conflict. (Available Online).

Caspian Sea Region: Legal Issues. (Available Online).

Conflict

Gleick, P. (1993). Water and Conflict: Fresh Water Resources and International Security. International Security, 18 (1), 79-112.

Mostert, E., Conflict and Cooperation in the Management of International Freshwater Resources: A Global Review, Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential, UNESCO, Paris, 2003

Priscoli, Jerome Delli, International Conflicts Related to Transboundary Water, Leadership for Environmental and Development, 1998 (Available online)

Samson, Paul & Charrier, Bertrand, International Freshwater Conflict: Issues and Prevention Strategies, Green Cross International, 1997 (Available online)

Sherk, George William, Patricia Wouters & Samantha Rochford, Water Wars in the Near Future? Reconciling Competing Claims for the World's Diminishing Freshwater Resources - The Challenge of the Next Millennium, The CEPMLP On-Line Journal, Vol. 3, No.2 (Available online)

Spreij, M., Institutions for International Freshwater Management, Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential, UNESCO, Paris, 2003

Ward, Diane R., Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the politics of Thirst, Riverhead Books, New York, 2002

Wolf, Aaron, Water and Human Security, Aviso, Vol. 3, June 1999 (Available online)

Columbia

An interesting summary, from a lawyer’s perspective, of recent developments on the Columbia river and what the future may hold -  http://www.stoel.com/resources/articles/environment/env_030.shtm

 The 1961 treaty between the U.S. and Canada concerning the Columbia River - http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/RegionalDocs/Columbia_River1961.htm

Basin Description, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/TMT/basin.html

Basin Map with links to dams, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/report/colmap.htm

Skim Columbia River Basin-Dams and Salmon

Columbia River Treaty (Available online)

Columbia River Treaty Overview (Available online)

Dams and Salmon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - http://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ps/colrvbsn.htm

Federal Caucus (Skim the two links at the bottom for a bit more.)

Federal Caucus, The. (December 1999) Conservation of  Columbia Basin Fish, Building a Conceptual Recovery Plan.- http://www.salmonrecovery.gov/overview.shtml

Federal Caucus Comment Record. (Winter 2000, Issues 3) Citizen Update, Conservation of the Columbia Basin Fish, Public Meetings Planned & Report Summaries.

Harden, Blaine. A River Lost. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, NY. 1996. pages 17, 25.

Krutilla, John V., The Columbia River Treaty: the Economics of an International River Basin Development. Baltimore: Hopkins Press, 1967. copies of pages: 8-26, 59-67, 119-122, 191-204. 

Map of the Columbia River Basin (http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/report/colmap.htm)

Muckleston, K. W., International Management in the Columbia Basin System, Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential, UNESCO, Paris, 2003.

Northwest Power Planning Council. (February, 2000) The Year of Decision, Renewing the Northwest Power Planning Council’s Fish and Wildlife Program.

Salmon Policy - Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation - http://www.umatilla.nsn.us/salmonpolicy.html

Treaty with the Wallawalla, Cayuse, etc., 1855 (referenced in the above Salmon Policy – used as the legal basis for the tribes’ contention that the U.S. has not fulfilled its obligations) - http://pacific.fws.gov/ea/tribal/treaties/wallawalla.pdf

Volkman, John M., A River in Common: the Columbia River, the Salmon Ecosystem, and Water Policy. Report to the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, August, Portland, 1997 (Available online).

Umatilla Indian Reservation Salmon Policy (It’s a bit lengthy, read I, II, and skim the rest)

United States and Canada. Treaty relating to cooperative development of the water resources of the Columbia River Basin (with Annexes) (Available online October, 2005 http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/RegionalDocs/Columbia_River1961.htm)

United States Army Corps of Engineers. Columbia River Basin-Dams and Salmon. (Available online October, 2005 http://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ps/colrvbsn.htm).

United States Fish and Wildlife. The Endangered Species Act of 1973. (Available online October, 2005 http://endangered.fws.gov/esa.html)

United States Geological Survey. CVO Website-Columbia River Basin. (Available Online October, 2005 http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Washington/ColumbiaRiver/description_columbia_river.html)

Water Management For The Pacific Northwest Reservoir System, US Army Corps of Engineers

What Makes the Columbia River Basin Unique and How We Benefit (http://www.fwee.org/c-basin.html)

UN/ECE web site (www.unece.org/env/water)

Mediterranean

§         Cocklin, Chris and Hain, Monique, Evaluation of the EIA for the Proposed Upper Mekong Navigation Improvement Project, Monash Environmental Institute, Monash University, Australia, December 2001.

International Joint Commission- What It Is, How It Works.  http://www.ijc.org/ijcweb-e.html

The IJC and the 21st Century http://www.ijc.org/php/publications/html/21ste.htm

http://winnipeg.about.com/aboutcanada/winnipeg/library/weekly/aa011500a.htm

Saliba, Bonnie Colby and Bush, David B.  Water Markets in Theory and Practice:  Market Transfers, Water Values and Public Policy.  Boulder:  Westview Press, Inc., 1987.

“Sea-going water bags to quench world thirst?” Planet Ark http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/13449/story.htm

Shrybman, S., "The Accord to Prohibit Bulk Water Removal - Will it Actually Hold Water?", BC Freshwater Workshop, May 9, 2000 (WestCoastLaw.pdf)

"Stop the Mad Water Grab!", About Friends of the Gualala River, http://www.gualalariver.org/export/madriver.html

“Turkey to pump water to Cyprus”  BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1754859.stm

US - Mexico Border

Border 2012 U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Program, Goals and Objectives, Border2012Goals-Objet word document, 2003. 

Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) Website: http://www.cocef.org/englishbecc.html

Bordering the future. “Environment: Common ground”, July 1988. http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/taxforms/96-599/chap09.pdf.

IBWC (International Boundary And Water Commission) Website:  http://www.ibwc.state.gov/

IBWC. “Joint measures to improve the quality of the waters of the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas/Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas”. Minute No. 279. August 28, 1989. http://www.ibwc.state.gov/FORAFFAI/MINUTES/minindex.HTM

Jones, P, The U.S. Mexico Boundary Waters Regime and North American Environmental Agreements: What Lessons for International Agreements’ Compliance Mechanisms? Available online: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/car/html/car3_article7.htm.

Maquilas / Export Processing Zones: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/resources/maquilas/

Marty, Frank, 2001: Managing international rivers  Problems, politics and institutions. (Bern: Peter Lang).

NAFTA and the environment. 1998 Senate Interim Committee on the North American Free Trade Agreement, page 49-63. http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/commit/archive/IC/IC14.PDF

Natural Heritage Institute and Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superior de Monterrey. “Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Designing a Common Future. A Physical Assessment of the Opportunities for Improved Management of the Water Resources of the Bi-national River Basin. Project Description” Available online:  http://www.n-h-i.org/Projects/InternationalRivers/RioGrande/ProjectDescription.pdf