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Competition and benefit sharing in the Ferghana Valley: Soviet negotiations on transboundary small reservoir construction

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Title Competition and benefit sharing in the Ferghana Valley: Soviet negotiations on transboundary small reservoir construction
 
Creator Pak, M.
Wegerich, Kai
 
Subject international waters
water resources
water management
irrigation development
river basins
case studies
 
Description While there has been a regional and international focus on large reservoirs in Central Asia, smaller transboundary reservoirs within the Ferghana Valley have been overlooked. The valley is shared by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, three riparian countries of the upstream Syr Darya. Located within the valley are many small transboundary tributaries and reservoirs. An analysis of the initial proposals and documented negotiations for four of these reservoirs reveals a changing pattern of benefit sharing. These past approaches call into question the argument that the boundaries set by the Soviets did not matter, as well as the assumption that Moscow as a hegemon planned infrastructure in order to divide and rule Central Asia.
 
Date 2014-09-12
2015-03-17T14:39:56Z
2015-03-17T14:39:56Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Pak, M.; Wegerich, Kai. 2014. Competition and benefit sharing in the Ferghana Valley: Soviet negotiations on transboundary small reservoir construction. Central Asian Affairs, 1:225-246. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22142290-00102004
2214-2282
2214-2290
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/58415
https://doi.org/10.1163/22142290-00102004
Managing Resource Variability and Competing Use
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Brill