CONFLICT AND COOPERATION OVER INTERNATIONAL FRESHWATER RESOURCES : INDICATORS OF BASINS AT RISK

Identification of potential future conflicts about the sharing of the water resources from the main river basins all over the world by deriving biophysical, socio-economic and geopolitical variables at multiple spatial and temporal scales from GIS databases of international basins and associated countries. Tests of variables against a database of historical incidents about water from 1948 to 1999.