RT Journal Article
T1 Why are there so few basin-wide treaties? Economics and politics of coalition formation in multilateral international river basins
A1 Dinar, Ariel
A1 De Stefano, Lucia
A1 Nigatu, Getachew
A1 Zawahri, Neda
AB Examinations of international water treaties suggest that riparian states are not heeding the advice to adopt IWRM. Theories suggest that the larger the number of negotiating states, the lower the cost (per state) of the joint operation of treaties, but the higher the transaction costs of negotiating and maintaining them. We model the trade-off between benefits and costs associated with the number of treaty signatories and apply it to a global treaty data-set. Findings confirm that the transaction costs of negotiation and the economies of scale are important in determining the paucity of basin-wide agreements, the treaties’ content and their extent.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0250-8060, ESSN: 1941-1707
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13923
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13923
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 abr 2024