The Danube: Environmental Monitoring of an International River by Libor Jansky, Masahiro Murakami, Nevelina I. Pachova

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Transboundary water conflicts loom as one of the major sources of international tension over resources and the environment in the coming century and the Danube, running through 11 European countries, is used in this work as a case study on the efficacy of environmental monitoring as one method for resolving such conflicts. Jansky (land management and conservation, Mendel U. of Agriculture and Forestry, Czech Republic), Murakami (infrastructure systems engineering, Kochi U. of Technology, Japan), and Pachova (United Nations U. Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, Japan) look at the hydropolitics of the GabcÍkovo-Nagymoros Project on the Danube by examining the dispute between Hungary and the Slovak Republic as it wound its way through the International Court of Justice and on to the agreement for joint monitoring and assessment of environmental effects. They judge it to be a model for resolving other international environmental conflicts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR