Susanne Schmeier
Biographic Data
| ID | 6568882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Schmeier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmeier |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMEIER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | IHE Delft Institute for Water Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5462-7499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transboundary water allocation in practice
Water allocation – how water is divided between two or more entities – is addressed at many levels; however, research and policy tend to focus on the national level. At the international level, the focus is more on how actors negotiate, less on how water is physically divided. This paper fills this gap by focusing on how and why water is allocated between states. We develop the Typology for Transboundary Water Allocation to catalogue surface and …
The Mar Menor lagoon and the rise of rights of nature in Europe
The recognition of the Mar Menor as a subject of rights under Spanish Law 19/2022 marked the first instance in Europe of granting legal personhood to an ecosystem. This article provides a critique of this unprecedented measure by examining its doctrinal, institutional, and socioecological dimensions. Doctrinally, the Spanish Constitutional Court upheld the constitutionality of the law in Judgment 142/2024, describing it as a “moderate ecocentrism…
Exploring the rights of nature in freshwater and marine ecosystems
Recognizing nature as a legal subject could be understood as an innovative way to transform environmental law towards an ethos of respect and care. The Rights of Nature (RoN) movement gained traction at a time when planet Earth is facing unprecedented ecological degradation. So far, little attention has been given as to how RoN is interpreted and conceptualised and what its implications are to freshwater and marine ecosystem governance. Moreover,…
Diving into Water Diplomacy – Exploring the Emergence of a Concept
The term “water diplomacy” has gained currency among policy makers and academics. It reflects an awareness that the use, management, and protection of transboundary water resources is intrinsically political and often embedded in complex political settings. Based on a review of academic and policy documents, we analyze the variety of understandings and common patterns in the definition of water diplomacy. We also analyze tools, tracks, and levels…
International Water Law Principles in Negotiations and Water Diplomacy
International water law (IWL) principles are often called upon to address disagreements and conflict between riparian states to a shared watercourse, with various parties invoking them to guide states’ behavior towards cooperative solutions that benefit the water resources as well as broader regional cooperation and peace. This essay argues that it is particularly important to acknowledge the role IWL principles play in negotiation processes, tha…
River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy
Transboundary river basins are by their nature surrounded by political discourses and negotiations associated with the application of legal mechanisms. Although legal frameworks have contributed a great deal to formalizing transboundary water interactions, the potential power of certain legal mechanisms to influence the political dynamics over international waters is understudied. One of the most challenging examples of these issues can be found …
The principle of no significant harm in international water law
Future proofing the principle of no significant harm
The principle of ‘no significant harm’ as a way of addressing transboundary environmental challenges is both inadequately researched and inadequately implemented in many parts of the world. This paper addresses the questions: What is the nature of transboundary harm in the Anthropocene? Is the principle of no significant harm able to address current and pre-empt future transboundary harm in the field of water and environmental law? This special i…
Prior notification of planned measures
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
River Basin Organizations and the Governance of Transboundary Watercourses
This chapter defines transboundary waters and sheds light on the collective action problems they pose. It chronicles the rise of river basin organizations as the key regional institutions to manage and implement international water treaties and address collective action problems in transboundary waters. In examining questions of effectiveness, two important institutional design features of transboundary water governance are outlined: the role of …
Clearing the muddy waters of shared watercourses governance
Governing International Watercourses
1. Introduction - Governing International Watercourses Effectively Part 1: 2. Building a Theory of River Basin Governance Effectiveness Part 2: 3. River Basin Organizations Around the World Part 3: 4. The Mekong River Commission - Continuous Cooperation in Spite of Adverse Conditions 5. The Danube River Basin and the ICPDR - Strong Achievements by a Narrow Institution 6. The Senegal River Basin and the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuv…
Governing International Watercourses
This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all River Basin Organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents. The detailed case studies are the Senegal (West Africa), Mekong (South-east Asia) and Danube (Europe) rivers. The book contributes to the academic debate on how shared natural and e…
Adaptation in a transboundary river basin
Resilience to Climate Change-Induced Challenges in the Mekong River Basin
Climate change and its consequences, \n ranging from increased water variability to more extreme \n weather events and from sea level rise to ecosystem changes, \n introduce new challenges to transboundary watercourses, \n which already face a variety of collective action problems \n due to their border-crossing nature. Other changes occurring \n in river basins, such as changing water-use patterns, \n development of large infrastructure schemes,…
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
Adaptation in a transboundary river basin
Future proofing the principle of no significant harm
The principle of ‘no significant harm’ as a way of addressing transboundary environmental challenges is both inadequately researched and inadequately implemented in many parts of the world. This paper addresses the questions: What is the nature of transboundary harm in the Anthropocene? Is the principle of no significant harm able to address current and pre-empt future transboundary harm in the field of water and environmental law? This special i…
Clearing the muddy waters of shared watercourses governance
The principle of no significant harm in international water law
Prior notification of planned measures
Resilience to Climate Change-Induced Challenges in the Mekong River Basin
Climate change and its consequences, \n ranging from increased water variability to more extreme \n weather events and from sea level rise to ecosystem changes, \n introduce new challenges to transboundary watercourses, \n which already face a variety of collective action problems \n due to their border-crossing nature. Other changes occurring \n in river basins, such as changing water-use patterns, \n development of large infrastructure schemes,…
Governing International Watercourses
1. Introduction - Governing International Watercourses Effectively Part 1: 2. Building a Theory of River Basin Governance Effectiveness Part 2: 3. River Basin Organizations Around the World Part 3: 4. The Mekong River Commission - Continuous Cooperation in Spite of Adverse Conditions 5. The Danube River Basin and the ICPDR - Strong Achievements by a Narrow Institution 6. The Senegal River Basin and the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuv…
Governing International Watercourses
This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all River Basin Organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents. The detailed case studies are the Senegal (West Africa), Mekong (South-east Asia) and Danube (Europe) rivers. The book contributes to the academic debate on how shared natural and e…
Adaptation in a transboundary river basin
Clearing the muddy waters of shared watercourses governance
River Basin Organizations and the Governance of Transboundary Watercourses
This chapter defines transboundary waters and sheds light on the collective action problems they pose. It chronicles the rise of river basin organizations as the key regional institutions to manage and implement international water treaties and address collective action problems in transboundary waters. In examining questions of effectiveness, two important institutional design features of transboundary water governance are outlined: the role of …
River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy
Transboundary river basins are by their nature surrounded by political discourses and negotiations associated with the application of legal mechanisms. Although legal frameworks have contributed a great deal to formalizing transboundary water interactions, the potential power of certain legal mechanisms to influence the political dynamics over international waters is understudied. One of the most challenging examples of these issues can be found …
The principle of no significant harm in international water law
Future proofing the principle of no significant harm
The principle of ‘no significant harm’ as a way of addressing transboundary environmental challenges is both inadequately researched and inadequately implemented in many parts of the world. This paper addresses the questions: What is the nature of transboundary harm in the Anthropocene? Is the principle of no significant harm able to address current and pre-empt future transboundary harm in the field of water and environmental law? This special i…
Prior notification of planned measures
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
International Water Law Principles in Negotiations and Water Diplomacy
International water law (IWL) principles are often called upon to address disagreements and conflict between riparian states to a shared watercourse, with various parties invoking them to guide states’ behavior towards cooperative solutions that benefit the water resources as well as broader regional cooperation and peace. This essay argues that it is particularly important to acknowledge the role IWL principles play in negotiation processes, tha…
Diving into Water Diplomacy – Exploring the Emergence of a Concept
The term “water diplomacy” has gained currency among policy makers and academics. It reflects an awareness that the use, management, and protection of transboundary water resources is intrinsically political and often embedded in complex political settings. Based on a review of academic and policy documents, we analyze the variety of understandings and common patterns in the definition of water diplomacy. We also analyze tools, tracks, and levels…
Exploring the rights of nature in freshwater and marine ecosystems
Recognizing nature as a legal subject could be understood as an innovative way to transform environmental law towards an ethos of respect and care. The Rights of Nature (RoN) movement gained traction at a time when planet Earth is facing unprecedented ecological degradation. So far, little attention has been given as to how RoN is interpreted and conceptualised and what its implications are to freshwater and marine ecosystem governance. Moreover,…
Transboundary water allocation in practice
Water allocation – how water is divided between two or more entities – is addressed at many levels; however, research and policy tend to focus on the national level. At the international level, the focus is more on how actors negotiate, less on how water is physically divided. This paper fills this gap by focusing on how and why water is allocated between states. We develop the Typology for Transboundary Water Allocation to catalogue surface and …
The Mar Menor lagoon and the rise of rights of nature in Europe
The recognition of the Mar Menor as a subject of rights under Spanish Law 19/2022 marked the first instance in Europe of granting legal personhood to an ecosystem. This article provides a critique of this unprecedented measure by examining its doctrinal, institutional, and socioecological dimensions. Doctrinally, the Spanish Constitutional Court upheld the constitutionality of the law in Judgment 142/2024, describing it as a “moderate ecocentrism…
Transboundary Water Resource Management (13 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental law and policy (6 works) · Corporate governance (5 works)