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Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management
Journal Title
International Journal of Water Resources Development
Year (definitive publication)
2023
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and infrastructural development has led to growing concerns regarding the future of Central Asia’s water resources. However, few attempts have been made to assess the impacts this will have on specific transboundary basins within the region. This article explores how the context of the BRI transcends its physical impacts within the Ili and Irtysh basins, creating a sanctioned discourse that forecloses the possibility of ‘successful’ negotiations at an official level. As such, pathways to transboundary water management that exist beyond the negotiations are shown to have greater plausibility and potential effectiveness.
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Keywords
Transboundary water negotiation,China,Kazakhstan,Belt and Road Initiative (BRI),Water security
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences
