attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research … has focused on diagnosing the links between natural resource competition and (violent) conflict, much less has focused on … the dynamics of whether and how resource competition can be transformed to strengthen social-ecological resilience and …

of which are likely to increase the demand for freshwater and thus competition over its use across riparian countries. As …, meeting the challenges in the Nile Basin depends on cooperation among countries and regulation of competing interests and …

users. To avoid hostile confrontation between different user groups and to manage competition of water use, some user groups … have instituted voluntary agreements for water rights sharing. Viewed in terms of cooperation and collective action, these …