New Publication in Political Geography
A new article from Lucas Beck, Thomas Bernauer, Tobias Siegfried, and Tobias Böhmelt entitled "Implications of hydro-political dependency for international water cooperation and conflict: Insights from new data" has been published in the September 2014 issue of Political Geography.
by
Eleanor Hughes
The authors key findings include:
- Hydro-political dependencies are widely assumed to influence international water cooperation and conflict.
- Introduction of a new geo-spatial dataset that generates more nuanced measures of hydro-political dependencies.
- Replication and expansion upon on existing quantitative studies on the issue, based on the new data.
- Upstream–downstream dependencies turn out to have a very small to insignificant effect on water cooperation or conflict.
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