Transboundary River Basins: Basic Principles for Solving the Problems of Interstate Cooperation

Сивохип, Ж. Т.; Чибилев, А. А.

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“…geopolitical conflicts [162][163][164] Unanticipated consequences are another hallmark of wicked problems. The twentieth century experienced just two periods when landings of Caspian sturgeon plunged to near zero, allowing populations to recover (Figure 5).…”

Section: The Wicked Nature Of Re-establishing Sturgeon In the Ural Rivermentioning

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Re-Establishing Naturally Reproducing Sturgeon Populations in the Caspian Basin: A Wicked Problem in the Ural River

Pueppke,

Nurtazin,

Murzashev

et al. 2023

Water

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Although Eurasia’s Caspian basin once supported the world’s richest and most diverse complex of sturgeon species, recent human activities have decimated populations of these ecologically and economically important fish. All five anadromous Caspian sturgeon species are critically endangered, and the potamodromous sterlet is also threatened. The precipitous decline of these species is due to a combination of factors that includes illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing; destruction of feeding and spawning habitat; water pollution; and the environmental consequences of climate change. International efforts are currently underway to re-establish sustained naturally reproducing sturgeon populations in the basin. Here, we update and review the status of sturgeon in the Caspian Sea with emphasis on the northern basin and the inflowing Volga and Ural rivers. We then focus on efforts to restore sturgeon in the Ural, which originates in Russia and flows through Kazakhstan before entering the Caspian Sea. With nearly ideal hydrological conditions for sturgeon, the Ural is the basin’s sole remaining river that allows migrating sturgeon unimpeded access to potentially productive spawning grounds. The challenge of re-establishing sturgeon in the Ural River exhibits the classical characteristics of wicked problems: ambiguous definitions, changing assumptions and unanticipated consequences, tradeoffs and economic dependencies, an incomplete and contradictory knowledge base, and no straightforward pathway toward a final solution. This challenge is examined here for the first time from the perspective of its wicked dynamics, with consideration given to approaches that have proven effective elsewhere in resolving wicked environmental problems.

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Section: The Wicked Nature Of Re-establishing Sturgeon In the Ural Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Establishing Naturally Reproducing Sturgeon Populations in the Caspian Basin: A Wicked Problem in the Ural River

Pueppke,

Nurtazin,

Murzashev

et al. 2023

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Centennial Analysis of Human Activity Intensity and Associated Historical Events in the Heilongjiang River Sino-Russo Watershed

Song,

Li,

et al. 2023

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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Transboundary River Basins: Basic Principles for Solving the Problems of Interstate Cooperation

Cited by 2 publications

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Re-Establishing Naturally Reproducing Sturgeon Populations in the Caspian Basin: A Wicked Problem in the Ural River

Re-Establishing Naturally Reproducing Sturgeon Populations in the Caspian Basin: A Wicked Problem in the Ural River

Centennial Analysis of Human Activity Intensity and Associated Historical Events in the Heilongjiang River Sino-Russo Watershed

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