A review of hydro-hegemony and transboundary water governance

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ID21697024
AuthorsShakeel Hayat (0000-0001-6405-2596, a Department of Development Studies, Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan, corresponding author), Jagdish Gupta (0000-0003-1424-2660, University of Amsterdam), Courtney Vegelin (0000-0001-9787-1627, University of Amsterdam), Hameed Jamali (0000-0002-1577-5541, a Department of Development Studies, Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan)
Year2022
Volume24
Issue11
Pages1723-1740
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWater Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1366-7017 • E-ISSN: 1996-9759
PublisherIWA Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2166/wp.2022.256
OpenAlexW4304959211
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited87

This review paper is an attempt to analyze the existing literature on hydro-hegemony (HH) theory, which has emerged to explain transboundary water interactions. The literature highlights that the conventional water interaction literature inadequately deals with three important factors: (i) asymmetric power relations, (ii) varying intensities of conflict, and (iii) the importance of the geographical location of riparian states. Since its emergence, it has evolved both in theory development and in application to transboundary basins. Although an attempt has been made earlier for reviewing, organizing and evaluating the overall literature on HH, the review itself is somehow silent on the hegemonic approaches to assess its contribution to the transboundary water governance literature and to identify the existing and future research gaps. This paper, however, not just addresses these omissions to (i) review the scholarly literature on HH; (ii) explore the challenges associated with power, cooperation, and conflict; and (iii) identify and explore potential trends in HH theory, but it also gives special attention to the hegemonic approaches within states’ boundaries and the ingredients to enrich the theory and research agenda of HH

Biology · Corporate governance · Economics · Hegemony · Management · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Riparian zone · Sociology · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies · Ecology

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