The Middle East Water Question: Hydropolitics and the Global Economy

By T. Allan. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. M. Mekonnen
2. H. Savenije
3. J. Berkoff
4. R. Boelens
5. J. Allan
6. Klaus Hubacek
7. Arjen Y. Hoekstra
8. E. Feitelson

Citations in the corpus

• The danger of naturalizing water policy concepts: Water productivity and efficiency discourses from field irrigation to virtual water trade (2012, background): “In theory, food produced in water-abundant areas shipped towater-deficit areaswouldbeapolicy tool to reduce water scarcity in those water-scarce countries (Allan, 2001).”
• Imported water risk: the case of the UK (2016, background): “The risk of external water dependence is known for highly waterscarce countries, like those in the Middle East and North Africa (Allan 2001, Fader et al 2013), but has gone unnoticed so far in more water-abundant regions.”
• Virtual Water - the Water, Food, and Trade Nexus. Useful Concept or Misleading Metaphor? (2003, background): “But awareness of them was of such destabilising potential that the social and political systems of the MENA region trapped the region's hydro-politics in a 'sanctioned discourse' of non-awareness (Allan, 2001a).”
• The Global Dimension of Water Governance: Why the River Basin Approach Is No Longer Sufficient and Why Cooperative Action at Global Level Is Needed (2010, background): “The concept of ‗virtual water import‘ as a means of releasing the pressure on domestic water resources was introduced by Allan [14,58] when he studied the water scarcity situation of the Middle East.”
• Hydraulic Bureaucracies and the Hydraulic Mission: Flows of Water, Flows of Power (2009, background): “ Internationally, the environmental destruction wrought  by the hydraulic mission led to increasing protests, starting in the 1960s and 1970s, with the rise of the  environmental movement and opposition  to new dams  (Allan, 2002).”
• Minimum water requirement for social and economic development (2008, background): “One specific means of adapting to increasing water scarcity is through trade — a country can increasing switch to food imports, frequently termed “virtual water”, in order to satisfy its basic food supply needs [11].”
• The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: Political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems and global trade (2011, background): “Indeed, food security has essentially been addressed through national water availability and ignores the spectacularly successful benefits of international trade, in this particular case food imports (Allan, 2001).”
• Assessing regional and global water footprints for the UK (2010, background): “Most studies on virtual water trade have been carried out mainly for the water embedded in agricultural products associated with food security (e.g. Allan, 1998, 2002; Fishelson, 1994; Hoekstra and Hung, 2005).”
• Evolving water science in the Anthropocene (2013, background): “It will require a global convention to redirect revenue from carbon taxes to support policies that aim for a more effective, more equitable and more sustainable future.”
• Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa (2011, background): “Hydrologists and social scientists alike have generally considered Egypt’s investment in these ‘megaprojects’ excessive (Allan 2001; Ayeb 2002; Elarabawy and Tosswell 1998).”
• Assessment of regional trade and virtual water flows in China (2007, background): “…efficiently by not allocating the majority of the water resources to the production of water-intensive products (e.g. crops, paper etc.) but rather water should be made available for other economic purposes that can contribute more to regional value added by consuming less water (Allan 1998; 2002).”
• The Global Web of National Water Security (2011, background): “It follows on from political ecology work on environmental vulnerability and risk (Wisner et al., 2004), international political economy research on water (e.g. Allan, 2001) and the growing interest in socioecological systems (Agrawal and Chhatre, 2011).”
• Applying hegemony and power theory to transboundary water analysis (2008, background): “The virtual water explanation of the lack of armed conflict over water (Allan, 2001) shows that importing food–often at subsidised prices–frees hard-pressed politicians and governments from the environmental, economic and political stress of mobilising non-existent local water resources. Most import”
• Water poverty: towards a meaningful indicator (2002, background): “Allan (2001) shows, for example, that for the Middle East water for irrigation is being substituted for by what he terms ‘‘virtual water’’ (more widely known as food imports).”
• China: The South-North Water Transfer Project— is it justified? (2003, background): “What is new is that world prices may have fallen below the levels needed to safeguard farmers even in low-income countries. 18 J. Berkoff / Water Policy 5 (2003) 1–28”