Cross-Border Resource Management: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Rongxing Guo (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Series: Developments in Environmental Science 4
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This essay is about the management of natural and environmental resources in cross-border areas. It explores a group of geographical, political, legal, economic and cultural factors that arise when political units (such as sovereign countries, dependent states and other administrative units) seek to utilize natural and environmental resources efficiently and equitably while minimizing the resultant damages (for example, prevention of resource degradation and preservation of the physical environment). This study considers various types of cross-border areas - at both international and sub-national levels. The main objectives of this book are:- To clarify how natural and human systems interact in cross-border areas under conditions of uncertain, imperfect information and, in some circumstances, irreversibility;- To identify and, where possible, quantify the various impacts of 'border' on the environmental activities in cross-border areas;- To evaluate the costs and benefits of cross-border cooperation in the exploitation and utilization of natural and environmental resources; and- To recommend measures in improving national and international legal and regulatory mechanisms for resource exploitation and environmental protection in cross-border areas.• Examines various types of cross-border areas at both international and sub-national levels throughout the world as well as their geographical, political, economic and cultural influences on the cross-border resource management• Uses the latest international and area data, resulting in new findings for cross-border environmental activities• Contains a large number of case studies throughout theworld including four in-depth case studies of cross-border resource management"

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Introduction to the book series
Pages vii-viii
Sagar V Krupa

Acknowledgments
Pages ix-x
R.-X. Guo

Preface
Pages xi-xii

Chapter 1 Some basic concepts Original Research Article
Pages 3-26

Chapter 2 Resource management and cross-border areas Original Research Article
Pages 27-46

Chapter 3 Can cross-border resources be optimally managed? Original Research Article
Pages 47-63

Chapter 4 Cross-border resource management: Methodological puzzles Original Research Article
Pages 65-85

Chapter 5 Institutions for cross-border resource management Original Research Article
Pages 87-105

Chapter 6 Cross-border resource management in disputed areas Original Research Article
Pages 107-130

Chapter 7 The triangular resource management of the Tumen River area Original Research Article
Pages 133-154

Chapter 8 The transnational water pollution in the Lower Mekong Basin Original Research Article
Pages 155-173

Chapter 9 The US—Mexico border environment cooperation Original Research Article
Pages 175-196

Chapter 10 China's interprovincial border disputes at Lake Weishan Original Research Article
Pages 197-225

Bibliography
Pages 227-238

Appendix A. A list of internationally adjacent protected areas
Pages 239-248

Appendix B. United Nations convention on the law of the sea (selected articles)
Pages 249-259

Appendix C. The US—Mexican agreement concerning the establishment of a border environment cooperation commission (selected articles)
Pages 261-268

Appendix D. The US—Canadian agreement relating to the exchange of information on weather modification activities
Pages 269-271

Index
Pages 273-287