1. The river-border complex: a border-integrated approach to transboundary river governance illustrated by the Ganges River and Indo-Bangladeshi border
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Kimberley Anh Thomas
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geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,South asia ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,0208 environmental biotechnology ,05 social sciences ,0507 social and economic geography ,02 engineering and technology ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Integrated approach ,020801 environmental engineering ,Interdependence ,Environmental protection ,Critical geopolitics ,050703 geography ,Environmental planning ,Water Science and Technology ,Cross national ,media_common ,Riparian zone - Abstract
International rivers are conventionally understood as watercourses that cross national boundaries, while borders themselves are taken to be static and given – passive features over and across which riparian processes unfold. Employing such straightforward framings of international rivers and borders, academic studies and policy analyses of transboundary water governance perpetuate problematic ideas about the relevant scales and actors involved in international river conflicts and crises. Through a historical examination of the Ganges River and the Indo-Bangladeshi border, I introduce the ‘river-border complex’ as a new framework for reconceptualizing international rivers and borders as synergistic, co-constitutive and interdependent.
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- 2016
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