Managing a Global Resource

E. Barbier
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This chapter focuses on the global management of water resources. There are two pressing global issues emerging from the current water paradox: potential conflicts over transboundary water resources and “water grabbing.” To a large extent, the problems associated with water grabbing have their roots in the mismanagement of water globally. If adequate institutions, incentives, and innovation for managing freshwater were adopted worldwide, then acquiring land and water resources overseas by water-scarce countries may not have such negative consequences. Effective transboundary agreements on sharing water could reduce the incentive for powerful countries to target weaker neighbors for water grabbing. However, acquiring water and land resources overseas still needs international regulation and monitoring. One way to do this is for countries that are currently responsible for much of the water grabbing worldwide to collaborate with the main targeted countries to form an international body for overseeing large-scale global water and land acquisitions.
管理全局资源
本章的重点是水资源的全球管理。从当前的水悖论中出现了两个紧迫的全球性问题:跨境水资源的潜在冲突和“水资源掠夺”。在很大程度上,与水资源掠夺有关的问题根源在于全球水资源管理不善。如果全世界都采用管理淡水的适当制度、奖励和创新,那么缺水国家在海外获取土地和水资源可能就不会产生这种消极后果。有效的跨界水资源共享协议可以减少强国以弱小邻国为目标抢夺水资源的动机。然而,海外水土资源的获取仍需要国际监管和监督。实现这一目标的一种方法是,目前对全球大部分水资源掠夺负有责任的国家与主要目标国家合作,成立一个国际机构,监督大规模的全球水资源和土地征用。
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