Shuanglei Wu


2022

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A socio-hydrological framework for understanding conflict and cooperation with respect to transboundary rivers
Yongping Wei, Jing Wei, Gen Li, Shuanglei Wu, David J. Yu, Mohammad Ghoreishi, Liangzhi You, Felipe Augusto Arguello Souza, Murugesu Sivapalan, Fuqiang Tian
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Volume 26, Issue 8

Abstract. Increasing hydrological variability, accelerating population growth and urbanisation, and the resurgence of water resources development projects have all indicated increasing tension among the riparian countries of transboundary rivers. While a wide range of disciplines develop their understandings of conflict and cooperation in transboundary river basins, few process-based interdisciplinary approaches are available for investigating the mechanism of conflict and cooperation. This article aims to develop a meta-theoretical socio-hydrological framework that brings the slow and less visible societal processes into existing hydrological–economic models and enables observations of the change in the cooperation process and the societal processes underlying this change, thereby contributing to revealing the mechanism that drives conflict and cooperation. This framework can act as a “middle ground”, providing a system of constituent disciplinary theories and models for developing formal models according to a specific problem or system under investigation. Its potential applicability is demonstrated in the Nile, Lancang–Mekong, and Columbia rivers.

2021

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A socio-hydrologic framework for understanding conflict and cooperation in transboundary rivers
Yongping Wei, Jing Wei, Gen Li, Shuanglei Wu, David J. Yu, Fuqiang Tian, Murugesu Sivapalan

Abstract. Increasing hydrologic variability, accelerating population growth, and resurgence of water resources development projects have all indicated increasing tensions among the riparian countries of transboundary rivers. This article aims to review the existing knowledge on conflict and cooperation in transboundary rivers from a multidisciplinary perspective and propose a socio-hydrological framework that integrates the slow and less visible societal processes with existing hydrological-economic models, revealing the hidden feedbacks between changes in societal processes and hydrological changes. This framework contributes to understanding the mechanism that drives conflict and cooperation in transboundary river management.