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Titre : CONTROL OF DRINKING WATER RESOURCES AS A SOURCE OF REGIONAL CONFLICTS

КОНТРОЛА РЕСУРСА ПИЈАЋЕ ВОДЕ КАО ИЗВОР РЕГИОНАЛНИХ СУКОБА

Auteur : Ostojić Gavrilo D

Université de soutenance : University of Belgrade

Grade : Doctoral Dissertation 2016

Résumé
Water is an essential and very important factor of social and economic development of each country. Water is becoming increasingly scarce on the global level. The growing demand for water is mainly due to anthropogenic factors : the increase in world population as well as economic and industrial activities and climate change. Furtherrmore, it is imperative that the water resources management becomes an essential and important task of our time. Throughout the history of human society quantity and quality of drinking water resources on the planet are constantly reduced, while there was an increase in tensions and anxiety between countries. Striving to achieve dominance over scarce fresh water resources in arid and semi arid regions resulted in an increased number of conflicts which are often solved by using force. Doctoral thesis particularly addresses the previous and the current state of the fresh water resources in the world, factors of endangering the available potable water resources, environmental refugees, increase in tensions, conflicts and regional conflicts over control of remaining resources of drinking water, as well as efforts international community to find a way of sustainable water resources management through innovative technologies, such as nanotechnology.

Mots Clés : drinking water resources, conflicts, regional conflicts, water stress, environmental refugees, nanotechnology

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