Abstract
The Santa Cruz River flows from the US State of Arizona into Mexico, and back into the US. Since federalization, the river Meuse crisscrosses Belgium’s autonomous Flemish and Walloon territories multiple times before reaching the Dutch border. These are only two examples out of some 310 transboundary river basins worldwide involving 150 countries (McCracken and Wolf, 2019), and some 592 cross-border aquifers (IGRAC et al., 2015), many presenting political and governance challenges, as these natural resources simply do not respect political borders. While transboundary waters present coordination challenges in the face of weather extremes, they can become even more complex in a context of political volatility — from major political change after elections and coups d’état to civil war and terrorism…
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | World Scientific Handbook of Transboundary Water Management |
| Subtitle of host publication | Science, Economics, Policy and Politics Volume 4: Transboundary Water Management Across Scales: Understanding the Domestic-International Interplay |
| Editors | J. Warner |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Volume | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789811291395 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Mar 2025 |
