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: Received: 19 March 2024 / Approved: 20 March 2024 / Online: 20 March 2024 (13:59:44 CET)
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Yahn Filho, A.G.; Bervig, A.A. Thinking International Waters as Integrated Ecosystems: A Study of the La Plata River Basin. Preprints2024, 2024031236. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1236.v1
Yahn Filho, A.G.; Bervig, A.A. Thinking International Waters as Integrated Ecosystems: A Study of the La Plata River Basin. Preprints 2024, 2024031236. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1236.v1
Yahn Filho, A.G.; Bervig, A.A. Thinking International Waters as Integrated Ecosystems: A Study of the La Plata River Basin. Preprints2024, 2024031236. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1236.v1
APA Style
Yahn Filho, A.G., & Bervig, A.A. (2024). Thinking International Waters as Integrated Ecosystems: A Study of the La Plata River Basin. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1236.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Yahn Filho, A.G. and Aline Andressa Bervig. 2024 "Thinking International Waters as Integrated Ecosystems: A Study of the La Plata River Basin" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1236.v1
Abstract
International basins are divided into sub-basins that are managed at the national and local levels, within the territory of each country, before reaching the level of international concern. The management of international basins could be developed using an integrated water management, based on multi-level governance model in which many actors are involved, from local to international scale. However, in the La Plata River Basin this model is not working, even with international agreements such as the La Plata Basin Treaty, which was signed in 1969. The understanding of political interests behind the law helps to explain its inefficiency. Therefore, considering the lack of a systemic view in an international watershed, it could be possible to have accumulating effects caused by the transformations of watercourses in the sub-basins. Then, the 2014 water crisis in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, is an example of the possible consequences arising from the lack of an integrated water management in the La Plata River Basin. Finally, this article demonstrates that the only way to have water resources utilization efficiency in an international basin is considering it as an integrated ecosystem, in order that any local problem may affect the whole basin.
Keywords
Integrated water management; international water law; political interests on water; water resources utilization efficiency; La Plata River Basin.
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geography
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