Is Water for Fighting over?

Is Water for Fighting over?

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Many contend that growing competition between uses of freshwater across borders is driving countries inexorably towards conflict. John Scanlon of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre draws on his extensive experience in water resource management to argue that the tools exist to ensure that water management leads to cooperation and not to war.

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Author(s)
John Scanlon
Publisher
IUCN - World Conservation Union
Place published
Geneva
Date / journal vol no.
in “Environment & Security: Why Nature is a Matter of Survival”, Policy Matters, Newsletter of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, Issue No. 9, May 2002
Pages
Page 9

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