Le partage de l’eau dans le monde : un enjeu majeur du xxie siècle

For some decades now the question of conflicts linked to water sharing have been gaining in importance in several parts of the world. Demographic growth is of course an essential factor to be taken into account, with burgeoning agricultural demands to feed a rapidly-expanding population, but it is n...

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Main Author: Frédéric Lasserre
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Casa de Velázquez 2006-11-01
Series:Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/2324
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description For some decades now the question of conflicts linked to water sharing have been gaining in importance in several parts of the world. Demographic growth is of course an essential factor to be taken into account, with burgeoning agricultural demands to feed a rapidly-expanding population, but it is not the only one; factors of political culture are also operative in the growing demand for water. To these causes of increasing demand for a finite resource we must add others, arising from economic and political tensions, between States (whence the notion, in varying forms, of future «water wars» in the 21st century) but also between social groups and between political entities within the same States. The analysis of these conflicts highlights the importance of the notion of social adaptability for their resolution, and contrariwise the difficulty with which certain societies may be expected to adapt to the growing scarcity of water, provoking social divisions and internal conflicts much more than wars between States.
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Le partage de l’eau dans le monde : un enjeu majeur du xxie siècle
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
Water
Conflict
Adaptation
Management
Resource
Scarcity
title Le partage de l’eau dans le monde : un enjeu majeur du xxie siècle
title_full Le partage de l’eau dans le monde : un enjeu majeur du xxie siècle
title_fullStr Le partage de l’eau dans le monde : un enjeu majeur du xxie siècle
title_full_unstemmed Le partage de l’eau dans le monde : un enjeu majeur du xxie siècle
title_short Le partage de l’eau dans le monde : un enjeu majeur du xxie siècle
title_sort le partage de l eau dans le monde un enjeu majeur du xxie siecle
topic Water
Conflict
Adaptation
Management
Resource
Scarcity
url https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/2324
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