Ebook: Reaching across the waters: facing the risks of cooperation in international waters

Foreword; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Perceived Risk; Figures Framework:; O.1 Framework: Risks and Opportunities to Cooperation; Tables; O.1 Five Categories of Risk; Enhancing Cooperation; O.2 Seven Categories of Risk Reduction; Key Messages; Chapter 1 Introduction and Approach; Justification; Background; Assessing Risk; 1.1 Five Categories of Risk; Reducing Risk and Building Opportunity; Role of Third Parties; A New Way of Looking at a Cooperation Decision; Assumptions; 1.1 Framework: Risks and Opportunities to Cooperation; Cases and Tipping Points.;This volume reviews the experience of cooperation in five international river basins, focusing on the perceptions of risks and opportunities by decision makers in countries responding to a specific prospect of cooperation. For each basin, the analysis centered on "tipping points," or periods in time when policymakers in the countries involved were faced with a critical decision concerning water cooperation. This study was inspired, in part, by the intensified involvement of the World Bank and development partners in shared international waters, resulting in a growing interest to better underst.