Water Cooperation Quotient (WCQ) quantifies the extent and success of water cooperation between riparian nations through an extensive analysis of 146 countries, 286 transboundary watercourses as well as any cooperative arrangements existing between these nations on water resources
Riparian countries cooperating on water management are bound to face new issues that could potentially lead to conflict. It is therefore important to have built in mechanisms in their water sharing agreements that could lead to a peaceful resolution of issues as and when they arise. River Basin Oraganizations around the world have found a diff...
Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) has developed the second edition of Water Cooperation Quotient (WCQ) which entails a methodology to quantify the extent and success of water cooperation between riparian nations through an extensive analysis of 146 countries, 286 transboundary watercourses as well as any cooperative arrangements (RBOs/RBCs) exis...
This publication presents a refined version of the Water
Cooperation Quotient, which was created as a tool to measure intensity of cooperation
in shared river basins. The Water Cooperation Quotient was first introduced in our report
released in November 2013. As the report was circulated worldwide, we received many
useful suggestions for i...
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An Unprecedented Opportunity:Blue Peace in the Middle East
Around 25 experts and media persons from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey met in Stockholm on 30-31 August 2018 to discuss the transfer of the management of Blue Peace in the Middle East Initiative from Strategic Foresight Group to a cooperative regional mechanism.