Publications

Appropriate Sanitation and Integrated Coastal Management
By Eugene Bricklemyer,  Jr.,  Alfredo Tomas Ortega Ojedo, Cuauhtémoc León, Boris Graizbord and Richard Kyle Paisley.
An Ecologically Based Human Waste Treatment System for Coastal Settlements on the Bahia De Navidad, Jalisco State, Mexico.
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A global estimate of benefits from ecosystem-based marine recreation: potential impacts and implications for management
By Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor · U. Rashid Sumaila
Participation in ecosystem-based marine recreational activities (MRAs) has increased around the world, adding a new dimension to human use of the marine ecosystem and another good reason to strengthen effective management measures.
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Economic impact of ocean fish populations in the global fishery
By Andrew J. Dyck · U. Rashid Sumaila
Our goal in this paper is to estimate the total output in an economy that is currently dependent (at least partially) on current fisheries output.We therefore applied the Leontief technological coefficients at current production and then estimate total output supported throughout the economy at the current level of production.
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Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Security in a Climate Change World: Challenges and Opportunities for International Law and Policy
By Gabriel Eckstein
This article explores the impact that climate change will have on regional and global freshwater resources and the resulting legal and policy implications that will challenge all nations. In particular, it assesses the ability of international water law to respond to climate change consequences and offers recommendations that could help nations and the international community to meet the challenges posed by this global phenomenon.
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GEF – Ridge to Reef
“The world’s oceans, rivers, lakes, and groundwater systems do not respect political borders. These large water systems cover most of our planet, but they continue to be managed in a national and fragmented way that is endangering the food supply and livelihoods of billions of people. If our nations continue to exploit these shared resources in unsustainable ways, we face a dismal future characterized by the depletion of our water and marine resources, increased poverty, and greater conflict.”
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Beyond International Water Law: Successfully Negotiating Mutual Gains Agreements for International Watercourses
By Alex Grzybowski, Stephen C. McCaffrey and Richard K. Paisley
“Water, energy, and agricultural issues are often found inextricably linked in the more than 260 international watercourses in the world. International water law provides an important foundation from which agreements regarding the conservation and management of international watercourses can be successfully negotiated ….”
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Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICM): A brief legal and institutional comparison among Canada, the United States and Mexico
By Richard Kyle Paisley, Maaria Curlier, Cuauhtémoc León, Boris Graizbord and Eugene Bricklemyer, Jr.
This paper seeks to define the term “ICM”, describe the current legal ICM context in Canada, the United States and Mexico, and it seeks to identify “lessons” each country can learn from each other with a view towards the more sustainable management of coastal zones within and between all three countries.
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Some Observations from Recent Experiences with the Governance of International Drainage Basins
By Richard Kyle Paisley and Glen Hearns
This paper focuses on articulating some observations from recent experiences with the governance of international drainage basins. The paper begins with a synopsis of the world water crisis and the global water agenda, and then discusses various institutional problems facing shared water resources. The paper then attempts to identify a number of possible best practices and lessons learned.
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Transboundary Water Management: An Institutional Comparison among Canada, the United States and Mexico.
By Richard Kyle Paisley, Cuauhtémoc León, Boris Graizbord and Eugene Bricklemyer, Jr.
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Climate Induced Water Stress in Canada
By Robert Sanford
A recent report by Bob Sandford links scarcity to climate induced-water stress on Canada’s fresh water resources. According to Sandford that stress includes “substantial reduction in summer stream flows, increased likelihood of severe droughts, increased aridity in semi-arid regions, saline intrusion into coastal aquifers and significant fluctuation in irrigation demand and water availability.” Despite the climate impacts on Canada’s fresh water resources, the country’s approach to water management over the past decades has not been encouraging. Many Canadians rarely think of water conservation and often overlook the climate induced-water stress on the country’s fresh water resources. Discrepancies in water management policies at the federal, provincial and local levels have equally undermined the security of Canada’s fresh water supply.
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A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies
By U. Rashid Sumaila, Ahmed S. Khan,  Andrew J. Dyck,  Reg Watson, Gordon Munro, Peter Tydemers, and Daniel Pauly
Using a recently developed database of fisheries subsidies for 148 maritime countries spanning 1989 to the present, total fisheries subsidies for the year 2003 is computed.Akey feature of our estimation approach is that it explicitly dealswith missing data from official sources, and includes estimates of subsidies to developing country fisheries.
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Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflicts in Southern Africa
By Ashok Swain, Ranjula Bali Swain, Anders Themner and Florian Krampe
This study aims to identify regions in the Zambezi River Basin in Southern Africa that are prone to risk of violent conflicts (collective violence, popular unrest) induced by climate changes/variability.
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Food security implications of global marine catch losses due to overfishing
By U. Thara Srinivasan · WilliamW. L. Cheung · Reg Watson · U. Rashid Sumaila
Excess fishing capacity and the growth in global demand for fishery products have made overfishing ubiquitous in the world’s oceans. Here we describe the potential catch losses due to unsustainable fishing in all countries’ exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and on the high seas over 1950–2004.
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The UNEP Large Marine Ecosystems of the World Report
This report is a result of a collaborative effort to promote a global view of conditions within LMEs across the North-South divide. It was generously coordinated by UNEP Regional Seas Programme, and the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA Coordination Office) in The Hague, Netherlands. In summer 2005 it was agreed that UNEP, in partnership with the GEFsupported Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) project, and NOAA’s Large Marine Ecosystem Program, would provide synopses of ecological conditions for each of the worlds’ Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs). In accordance with the outcome of a series of consultations among the three parties, it was concluded that the five-module LME assessment framework of productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, socioeconomics, and governance, would provide a useful basis for describing ecological conditions within the world’s LMEs.
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United Nations: Water for Life, 2005-2015
“Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. If all the world’s peoples work together, a secure and sustainable water future can be ours.” – Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General.
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Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters: Newsletter No. 2, November, 2009
The Newsletter provides information about the UPTW, its Partner Universities and their current activities. More information about the UPTW, including this Newsletter, can be found at: http://waterpartners.geo.orst.edu .
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Sharing Transboundary Waters. An Integrated Assessment of Equitable Entitlement: The Legal Assessment Model
By Patricia Wouters, Dr. Sergei Vinogradov, Andrew Allan, Patricia Jones, Dr. Alistair Rieu-Clark
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