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This book presents a unique method for utilizing existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress, and shows how treaty design can shape basin management, helping nations to better achieve their goals in a changing climate.

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This study presents a unique way to utilize the existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress. Literature-derived core concepts are summarized as seven treaty mechanisms categories (specificity, uncertainty management, enforcement, communications, flexibility, integrativeness, and scale) and are hypothesized as important for shaping the institutional resiliency of a treaty. Treaty design is shown to have a relevant and important role in shaping basin management so that nations may better achieve their goals in a changing climate.

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Introduction.- Literature Review.- Hypotheses, Definitions, and Explanatory Mechanisms.- Data and Methods: Treaties, Power, Scarcity, and Conflict.- Results.- Case Studies-Application of the Results.- Conclusions.

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Master of Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University

National Science Foundation Fellowship. Project: "Analysis of the clc Element of Pseudomonas sp. Strain B13 and the Use of Burkolderia sp. RP037 as a Biosensor for Phenanthrene Biodegradation."

Master of Science, Geology, Brigham Young University. Thesis "Timing and Mechanisms of Groundwater Recharge in a Mountainous Setting."

Bachelor of Science, Geology, Brigham Young University

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