The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?

The relations between Russia and China have become much warmer since the beginning of the 1990s; they put an end to severe tensions between the two countries. Now trade is expanding, and investment from China in the border area is stimulating growth along the Amur River. But with growth also come wa...

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Main Author: Frédéric Lasserre
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2003-06-01
Series:Cybergeo
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/4141
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spelling doaj-8d714ec1614842809495d8a757dc4eb32020-11-25T01:33:15ZdeuUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésCybergeo1278-33662003-06-0110.4000/cybergeo.4141The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?Frédéric LasserreThe relations between Russia and China have become much warmer since the beginning of the 1990s; they put an end to severe tensions between the two countries. Now trade is expanding, and investment from China in the border area is stimulating growth along the Amur River. But with growth also come water withdrawals: sortages have already appeared in the basin. Prospects are all the more problematic as northern China is facing severe water shortages that could partly be solved, in the medium term, by a derivation from the Amur/Heilongjiang Basin. Would such a project be considered given the still volatile state of relations between Moscow and Beijing?http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/4141Amurborderwater scarcitydevelopmentHeilongjiangwater management
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The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?
Cybergeo
Amur
border
water scarcity
development
Heilongjiang
water management
author_facet Frédéric Lasserre
author_sort Frédéric Lasserre
title The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?
title_short The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?
title_full The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?
title_fullStr The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?
title_full_unstemmed The Amur River border. Once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?
title_sort amur river border. once a symbol of conflict, could it turn into a water resource stake?
publisher Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités
series Cybergeo
issn 1278-3366
publishDate 2003-06-01
description The relations between Russia and China have become much warmer since the beginning of the 1990s; they put an end to severe tensions between the two countries. Now trade is expanding, and investment from China in the border area is stimulating growth along the Amur River. But with growth also come water withdrawals: sortages have already appeared in the basin. Prospects are all the more problematic as northern China is facing severe water shortages that could partly be solved, in the medium term, by a derivation from the Amur/Heilongjiang Basin. Would such a project be considered given the still volatile state of relations between Moscow and Beijing?
topic Amur
border
water scarcity
development
Heilongjiang
water management
url http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/4141
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