Desalination and hydrodiplomacy: Refreshening transboundary water negotiations or adding salt to the wounds?

Katz, David

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2020.11.012

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Тем не менее при анализе данного вопроса с точки зрения водной дипломатии становится очевидным повышение гибкости страны в переговорных позициях, снижение стимулов к сотрудничеству, в ряде случаев -изменение её водной стратегии. С одной стороны, опреснение воды создаёт благоприятные условия для сглаживания межгосударственных конфликтов в рамках трансграничного регулирования; однако, с другой стороны, процесс забора воды для опреснения может дать почву для разногласий по поводу ранее непригодных для использования вод (Katz 2021).…”

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Water Security in the Context of Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Caspian Region

Aliev

2023

Vestnik MGIMO-universiteta

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The paper examines water security in the Caspian region and the management of transboundary rivers for sustainable development. It analyzes the potential impacts of building dams on upper river courses on the region's water resources, particularly addressing concerns about environmental implications due to pollution from sources like sewage and agricultural fertilizers.It further investigates planned dam projects and their potential climate and ecological effects on the Caspian Sea and surrounding regions. The paper discusses the idea of desalination as a means to tackle water shortages but underscores its limitations in the closed hydrological system of the Caspian Sea.The primary focus lies in establishing effective management strategies for shared water resources. It introduces a novel perspective by considering these rivers and the Caspian Sea as an integrated water system, emphasizing the far-reaching consequences that excessive dam construction could pose to the overall hydrological balance. Collaboration and international agreements are crucial to navigate this challenge.The paper's significance lies in its innovative approach to water management, addressing the complex interplay between water, energy, food, and the environment in the region.

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Water Security in the Context of Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Caspian Region

Aliev

2023

Vestnik MGIMO-universiteta

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“…The separation of “ecology” from “territory” within Israeli environmental discourse operates as a mechanism of power that brackets out Palestinian land claims while allowing Israeli environmental actors to proceed with development projects (Alatout, 2006). Even in cases like that of Israeli-governed desalination plants, whose benefits do (ostensibly) extend to Palestinian communities, the Israeli government ultimately maintains territorial and technological control; it retains the power to provide or deny access to environmental resources (al-Charrett, 2021; Shalalfeh et al, 2018) and may gain a strategic advantage in negotiations (Katz, 2021). When read as settler moves to innocence, then, green technologies “represent settler fantasies of easier paths to reconciliation” (Tuck and Yang, 2012: 4) that bypass demands for the return of land, advancing Israeli territorial management over the ecologies of Palestine without ever challenging the terms of these relations.…”

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Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel: Settler colonialism and environmental injustice in the age of climate catastrophe

Hughes

Velednitsky

Green

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Israeli innovations in “green” technology are ostensibly aimed at sustainable resource management and climate change mitigation. But sustainable development and environmental (in)justice in Palestine/Israel need to be examined through interdisciplinary perspectives that account for the broader settler colonial and neoliberal contexts in which they occur. Taking into account the historical and geographic context of Israel's scientific development, we argue that Israel's green technologies are fundamentally structured by the Zionist project of appropriating Palestinian lands. Within settler colonial analysis, environmental injustice comprises part of a broader pattern of settler domination of Indigenous ecological relations, requiring attending not to ‘equity’ in relations with the state and environment but a reckoning with settler privilege and the return of land to Indigenous communities. We analyze the use of environmental infrastructures—specifically in the areas of waste management, renewable energy, and agricultural technologies (“agritech”)—as mechanisms for land appropriation and dispossession in Palestine/Israel. Our analysis of ‘greenwashing’ as a rhetorical strategy asserts that regardless of the ecological impact of individual technologies, in Israel's settler colonial context they further indigenous dispossession and elimination and are therefore incommensurable with long-term socio-ecological resilience. Through this analysis of Israeli greenwashing, we discuss Israeli sustainability initiatives and technological innovations not as ahistorical discourses, commodities, or technologies, but as elements of a historically situated settler colonial project.

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“…This concept also emphasizes the importance of balancing stakeholders' points of view (Grigg 2008). As a variety of stakeholders are involved, power and the distribution of abilities to act play a crucial role in water resource management (Katz 2021). This characteristic represents an inherent practice of negotiations affecting any equity in water allocation.…”

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Shared water resources in decentralized city regions: mixed governance arrangements in Indonesia

Rahayu

Woltjer

Firman

2021

Urban Water Journal

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This paper investigates emerging models of governance for shared water resources in decentralized urban regions in Indonesia and draws on a case of inter-local government collaboration for shared water resources in Cirebon region, Indonesia. The paper points to cooperation practice involving a mixedmodel of governance for sharing water. by identifying a series of requirements for mixed governance. This model suits well not only because of the regional nature of water resource management in general, but also because such a model is likely to strengthen trust, increase transparency, and provide more equal positions among regions or stakeholders involved. Crucially, this model tends to decrease problematic levels of local autonomy and inter-local rivalry, which currently appears as a major challenge for shared water resource cooperation attempts in the decentralizing contexts of Indonesia and beyond.

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Desalination and hydrodiplomacy: Refreshening transboundary water negotiations or adding salt to the wounds?

Cited by 19 publications

References 47 publications

Water Security in the Context of Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Caspian Region

Water Security in the Context of Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Caspian Region

Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel: Settler colonialism and environmental injustice in the age of climate catastrophe

Shared water resources in decentralized city regions: mixed governance arrangements in Indonesia

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