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Coping with Uncertainty and Feedback in the Nile Basin

By Elizabeth Cooper On October 6, 2015 · Add Comment · In Insights

This article is the second installment of the series Water Diplomacy: Issues of Complexity Science and Negotiation Theory -- Water disputes are difficult to resolve because they are complex. These disputes occur in open and changing systems with numerous stakeholders, interactions, and interdependencies that make it difficult to anticipate or manage complex systems. One aspect of complexity has to do with uncertainty in how the networks and systems involved are likely to respond to stresses, such as

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