Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate

Anton Earle is Director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) Africa Regional Centre based in Pretoria, South Africa.  Ana Elisa Cascão is a Programme Manager at SIWI’s Capacity Building services and Co-director of SIWI’s international training programmes on Transboundary Water Management for Lake Victoria, the Middle East and the Tigris-Euphrates.  Stina Hansson is performing research on transboundary water management and water services provision at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden and at SIWI.  Anders Jägerskog is Counsellor for Regional Water issues in the MENA region at the Embassy of Sweden in Amman, Jordan and Associate Professor of Peace and Development at Gothenburg University. The views expressed by Jägerskog do not necessarily reflect the views of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) or the Swedish Government. Dr. Jägerskog was formerly Head of the Transboundary Water Management Unit at SIWI where he also served as the Programme Manager of the UNDP Shared Waters Partnership (SWP). UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in more than 170 countries and territories, UNDP offers global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.  Ashok Swain is a Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and at the Department of Earth Sciences of Uppsala University, Sweden.  Joakim Öjendal is a Professor of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction  2. The Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin  3. The Jordan River Basin  4. The Mekong River Basin  5. The Niger River Basin  6. The Nile River Basin  7. The Orange-Senqu River Basin  8. Conclusion: Climate Change Spanning from Weather to Water Governance