Study on the Flexibility in Cross-Border Water Resources Cooperation Governance

3rd International Conference on Advances in Energy Resources and Environment Engineering

能源学;生态环境科学

Liu, Zongrui^1,2 ; Wang, Teng^1,2 ; Zhou, Li^1,2

Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing

211100, China^1

Institute of International River, Hohai University, Nanjing

211100, China^2

关键词: Cross-border;    Diversification strategies;    Flexible strategies;    Management layer;    Strategic management;    Trans-boundary;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/113/1/012119/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/113/1/012119

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Flexible strategy is very important to cross-border cooperation in international rivers water resources, which may be employed to reconcile contradictions and ease conflicts. Flexible characters of cross-border cooperation in international rivers water resources could be analyzed and revealed, using flexible strategic management framework, by taking international cooperation protocols related to water from Transboundary Freshwater Disputes Database (TFDD) as samples from the number of cooperation issues, the amount of management layers and regulator agencies in cooperation organization and the categories of income (cost) distribution (allocation) mode. The research demonstrates that there are some flexible features of cross-border cooperation in international rivers water resources: Riparian countries would select relative diversification strategies related to water, tend to construct a flexible cooperation organization featured with moderate hierarchies from vertical perspective and simplified administrations from horizontal perspective, and adopt selective inducement modes to respect 'joint and several liability'.