According to Peter H. Gleick (2008), in the eighteenth century there were 2 conflicts involving water resources; in the nineteenth century, 12; in the twentieth century, 96; in the first eight years of the twenty-first century, 54. This trend seems to increase in coming years. Since there is not coincidence between political borders and boundaries of watersheds, there is also a lack of cooperation in regional and environmental policies, than potential situations of competition for the use and control of water resources. Therefore, for some time the many and varied political-economic issues relating to the distribution of water resources in the world are included in the research by geographers. This paper focuses on three major issues still opened in the world, generated by a not shared use of water resources and related to the water systems of Tigris-Euphrates, Jordan and Nile. Afterwards it traces the causes of these conflicts, their recent developments and finally it considers the prospects for resolution.
Conflitti per l’acqua. Scenari attuali e prospettive di cooperazione in tre sistemi idrici (Tigri-Eufrate, Giordano, Nilo)
FATICHENTI, Fabio
2013
Abstract
According to Peter H. Gleick (2008), in the eighteenth century there were 2 conflicts involving water resources; in the nineteenth century, 12; in the twentieth century, 96; in the first eight years of the twenty-first century, 54. This trend seems to increase in coming years. Since there is not coincidence between political borders and boundaries of watersheds, there is also a lack of cooperation in regional and environmental policies, than potential situations of competition for the use and control of water resources. Therefore, for some time the many and varied political-economic issues relating to the distribution of water resources in the world are included in the research by geographers. This paper focuses on three major issues still opened in the world, generated by a not shared use of water resources and related to the water systems of Tigris-Euphrates, Jordan and Nile. Afterwards it traces the causes of these conflicts, their recent developments and finally it considers the prospects for resolution.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
