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A socio-hydrological framework for understanding conflict and cooperation with respect to transboundary rivers
Yongping Wei
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Brisbane, Australia
Jing Wei
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Shuanglei Wu
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Brisbane, Australia
Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051, USA
Mohammad Ghoreishi
School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
You Lu
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Felipe Augusto Arguello Souza
Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil
Murugesu Sivapalan
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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There is increasing tension among the riparian countries of transboundary rivers. This article proposes a socio-hydrological framework that incorporates the slow and less visible societal processes into existing hydro-economic models, revealing the slow and hidden feedbacks between societal and hydrological processes. This framework will contribute to process-based understanding of the complex mechanism that drives conflict and cooperation in transboundary river management.
There is increasing tension among the riparian countries of transboundary rivers. This article...
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