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JournalISSN: 1366-7017

Water Policy 

UWA Publishing
About: Water Policy is an academic journal published by UWA Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Water resources & Water supply. It has an ISSN identifier of 1366-7017. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 1569 publications have been published receiving 34878 citations.


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TL;DR: Water security is defined as the availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods, ecosystems and production, coupled with an acceptable level of water-related risks to people, environments and economies as discussed by the authors.

814 citations

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TL;DR: The role of prices in the water sector and how they can be used to promote equity, efficiency, and sustainability is discussed in this article. But water has been recognized as an economic good for many centuries before 1992.

649 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the reality of water conflict and draw lessons for the plausibility of future "water wars" and conclude that the more valuable lesson of international water is as a resources whose characteristics tend to induce cooperation and incite violence only in the exception.

623 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework of Hydro-Hegemony is presented to examine the role of power asymmetry in creating and maintaining water conflict that fall short of the violent form of war and to treat as unproblematic situations of cooperation occurring in an asymmetrical context.

561 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess all reported events of either conflict or cooperation between nations over water resources during the last 50 years and use these events to inform the identification of basins at greatest risk of political stress in the near future.

502 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202343
202293
202194
202082
201985
201882