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Freshwater Resources and Transboundary Rivers on the International Agenda
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| Subtitle
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From UNCED to RIO+10
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| Author
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Scheumann, W., Klaphake, A.
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| Editor or Organisation
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DIE-GDI
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| Year
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2001
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| Keywords
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transboundary water Management, international conferences, freshwater resources
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| Country
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| Type
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publication
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| Language
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English
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| Table of Contents
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1 Introduction
2 Freshwater resources on the international agenda: From UNCED to RIO+10
2.1 From Stockholm 1972 to the Brundtland Report 1987: Water blindness?
2.2 Water issues in the Preparatory Committee of the UNCED
2.3 The Dublin Principles (1992): A landmark for water policy
2.4 Negotiations in Working Group II (PrepCom IV) and UNCED 1992
2.5 Agenda 21 (water chapter): Contents, restrictions and neglected issues
2.6 Priority actions and strategic approaches
3 Summary
References
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| Abstract
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In face of the disillusioning results of the International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade (1981-1990), international water experts turned to a more comprehensive approach to water management, including the accentuation of institutional and economic aspects. This development led to the Dublin Principles (1992) which can be judged as one of the clearest, most comprehensive and far-reaching statements of water management up to today. Chapter 18 of Agenda 21 adopted at the UNCED (1992), represents the political consensus in the early 1990’s of emphasising the need for integrated planning and management, comprehensive water assessment, recognition of potential threats to aquatic ecosystems, the importance of institutional capacity building and the need to regard water as a finite resource having an economic value.
However, Agenda 21 failed to develop a strategic approach to international water policy. Strategic and urgent measures for individual countries are hard to identify. Although many issues were mentioned, concrete obligations were avoided. This particularly applies to water pricing, ecological threats of water projects, river basin management, the ecosystem approach,
transboundary water issues and national reporting on implementation. The purely international dimension of water policy - transboundary watercourses, water and security, traderelated aspects - was especially neglected.
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| Permission
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Yes
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| Category
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Resource Management
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