Environment and Development (UNCED) reinvigorated cooperation in international river basins once ... more Environment and Development (UNCED) reinvigorated cooperation in international river basins once prone to considerable rancour. Israeli-Jordanian and Indo-Bangladeshi water-sharing agreements were concluded, and in 1993 the 'Nile 2002 Conferences' were inaugurated to cultivate, via informal dialogue, the trust needed to negotiate a comprehensive accord among 10 Nile Basin countries. In 1997 these countries began drafting a cooperative framework for determining 'net equitable entitlements' and undertaking 'integrated water resources planning and management'; yet, as a Nile Basin Initiative report understates, 'some key issues remain to be resolved'. 1 Indeed, rivalry among Egypt, Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the need to coordinate numerous actors to augment the Nile's water supply, generate the vexing collective action problematic characteristic of what Elinor Ostrom terms 'common property resources' (CPRs), 2 from which excluding users is costly but uses are competitive and potentially deleterious to resource renewal. Neither of the featured works shirks from engaging with CPR problems meriting further analysis if barriers to multilateral Nile Basin cooperation are to be meaningfully dismantled. The Waterbury book explicitly generalises Ostrom's paradigm from a setting which the latter author restricted to symmetrically accessible domestic CPRs
Environment and Development (UNCED) reinvigorated cooperation in international river basins once ... more Environment and Development (UNCED) reinvigorated cooperation in international river basins once prone to considerable rancour. Israeli-Jordanian and Indo-Bangladeshi water-sharing agreements were concluded, and in 1993 the 'Nile 2002 Conferences' were inaugurated to cultivate, via informal dialogue, the trust needed to negotiate a comprehensive accord among 10 Nile Basin countries. In 1997 these countries began drafting a cooperative framework for determining 'net equitable entitlements' and undertaking 'integrated water resources planning and management'; yet, as a Nile Basin Initiative report understates, 'some key issues remain to be resolved'. 1 Indeed, rivalry among Egypt, Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the need to coordinate numerous actors to augment the Nile's water supply, generate the vexing collective action problematic characteristic of what Elinor Ostrom terms 'common property resources' (CPRs), 2 from which excluding users is costly but uses are competitive and potentially deleterious to resource renewal. Neither of the featured works shirks from engaging with CPR problems meriting further analysis if barriers to multilateral Nile Basin cooperation are to be meaningfully dismantled. The Waterbury book explicitly generalises Ostrom's paradigm from a setting which the latter author restricted to symmetrically accessible domestic CPRs
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