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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