[1] Chile’s free-market Water Code turned 20 years old in October 2001. This anniversary was an important milestone for both Chilean and international debates about water policy because Chile has become the world’s leading example of the free-market approach to water law and water resources management, the textbook case of treating water rights not merely as private property but also as a fully...

Disputes over land, water, forests, rangelands, and other resources, both privately and commonly-held, are omnipresent across Africa and increasing in number due to the socioeconomic and environmental changes happening on microand macrolevels. Communities in Africa have a variety of mechanisms rooted in customary and statutory institutions to deal with disputes. This paper uses community-level ...

Water has a unique combination of qualities that contributes to the many conflicts with respect its control and use [...]

The Nile River Basin is the source of life Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Upstream countries, principally as water for agriculture hydropower. resource focus much contested development between downstream upstream countries. In recent years, largely due to climate change rapid population growth, there has been an increasing level conflict related scarcity consequent aggravation food insecurity. Add...

following the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of former soviet :union:republics, previous economic relations among centralasianrepublics changed and were replaced with the market economy. tensions have emerged between upstream and downstream countries located along transboundary rivers with downstream countries even resorting to threat of military action against possible restric...

Does water scarcity induce conflict? And who would engage in a water scarcity conflict? In this paper we look for evidence of the relation between water scarcity and conflictive behavior. With a framed field experiment conducted with smallholder irrigators from semi-arid Tanzania that replicates appropriation from an occasionally scarce common water flow we assess what type of water users is mo...

Despite much recent rhetoric predicting growing conflict, even wars, over water, the weight of historical evidence points overwhelmingly to peaceful resolution of such conflicts. Water in fact tends to act as a catalyst for cooperation.