Governance of a Transboundary River

Christian Bréthaut is an assistant professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the Co-Director of the UNESCO Chair in Hydropolitics and leads the Geneva Water Hub’s Research and Education component. His work centres on public policy analysis, institutionalism and political ecology, with a particular interest in water governance. He is currently focusing on transboundary rivers and on governance of the water-food-energy nexus.Géraldine Pflieger is Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is Co-Director of the UNESCO Chair in Hydropolitics and Director of the University of Geneva’s Institute for Environmental Sciences. Her current research interests focus on the regulation of shared and common natural resources.

• Chapter 1: Exploring Rhône’s transboundary governance.- Chapter 2: Types of transboundary water governance regimes: theoretical discussion and empirical illustrations.- Chapter 3: From local uses towards appropriation by nation-states .- Chapter 4: The emergence of multifunctional transboundary river governance.- Chapter 5: Towards integration? Looking for a best-fit governance model.- Chapter 5: Towards integration? Looking for a best-fit governance model.