When Aaron Wolf, professor in the Department of Geoscience at Oregon State University, and his colleagues first looked at the dynamics behind water conflict in their Basins at Risk study, they found that a lot of the issues they'd assume would lead to conflict, like scarcity or economic growth, didn't necessarily. Instead they found that "there is a relationship between change in a [water] basin and the institutional capacity to absorb that change," said Wolf in this interview with ECSP. "The change can be hydrologic: you've got floods, droughts, agricultural production growing...or institutions also change: countries kind of disintegrate, or there are new nations along basins."
However, these changes happen independently. "Whether there is going to be conflict or not depends in a large part to what kind of institutions there are to help mitigate for the impacts of that change," explained Wolf.
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