Geography of international water conflict and cooperation: Data sets and applications

摘要: [1] The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database provides a framework for quantitative, global-scale explorations of the relationship between freshwater resources and international cooperation conflict. Projects were designed to test common theories linking conflict, in particular within context geography environmental security. The projects, which follow sequence, consider three main hypotheses on likelihood intensity water resource disputes. To these hypotheses, unique set tools was created that links water-specific event data with geographic information system (GIS) meshes biophysical, political, socioeconomic sets at river basin other scales. There are linked sets: (1) an documenting historical relations, including methodology identifying classifying events by their cooperation/conflict; (2) GIS countries basins, both current historical; (3) spatial socioeconomic, political variables, GIS. This paper describes above them, methodological utilizing sets, providing projects as examples: indicators basins risk tensions, relationships internal hydropolitics regions, hydroclimatological variables relations.