Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی
Authors
1 Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2 Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
3 Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Geography and Environmental Planning, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
Abstract
Issues related to transboundary water resources are considered a socio-political and ultimately environmental challenge, because access to fresh water and its optimal management can act as a power tool in relations between different countries and within societies. Water diplomacy as a process can work to resolve water-related tensions and facilitate cooperation between countries with shared water resources. But this new and emerging concept does not have enough theoretical and scientific support to present a process. For this reason, in this article, by expanding the concept of water diplomacy, we tried to present step-by-step the paths of water diplomacy for different fields and water diplomacy measures related to performance in the form of a water diplomacy road map. For this purpose, we first discussed the existing approaches in water diplomacy with a descriptive-analytical method and by finding the focal components in water diplomacy, including actors, interests and power, we presented a roadmap for water diplomacy based on the advantages of the approaches. Therefore, the roadmap of water diplomacy is to transfer the existing conditions to a favorable situation, which can help regulate relations between countries and different institutions by using diplomacy, and designs strategic solutions and frameworks through which to create cooperation, agreements and dialogues. Effective negotiations between countries will lead to cooperation and sustainability in the field of water.
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