A socio-hydrological framework for understanding conflict and cooperation with respect to transboundary rivers

• DOI: 10.5194/hess-26-2131-2022
• Publication Date: 2022-04-28T06:16:47Z
• Authors: Yongping Wei; Jing Wei; Gen Li; Shuanglei Wu; David Yu; Mohammad Ghoreishi; You Lu; Felipe Augusto Ar...; Murugesu Sivapalan; Fuqiang Tian
• Keywords: Technology; T; 15. Life on land; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; 01 natural sciences; 6. Clean water; G; Environmental sciences; 13. Climate action; 11. Sustainability; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; GE1-350; TD1-1066; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

Abstract. Increasing hydrological variability, accelerating population growth and urbanisation, the resurgence of water resources development projects have all indicated increasing tension among riparian countries transboundary rivers. While a wide range disciplines develop their understandings conflict cooperation in river basins, few process-based interdisciplinary approaches are available for investigating mechanism cooperation. This article aims to meta-theoretical socio-hydrological framework that brings slow less visible societal processes into existing hydrological–economic models enables observations change process underlying this change, thereby contributing revealing drives can act as “middle ground”, providing system constituent disciplinary theories developing formal according specific problem or under investigation. Its potential applicability is demonstrated Nile, Lancang–Mekong, Columbia