НИЦ МКВК оказывает организационно-техническую и научно-информационную поддержку деятельности МКВК. Имеет филиалы в Казахстане и Таджикистане. Создан в 1992 году.
Dinara Ziganshina, PhD
Director
Research areas: international and national law and policy as applied to water resources, environmental protection and climate change
Dr Ziganshina received a law degree from the Tashkent State Institute of Law, the Faculty of State Building and Governance (2001), LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the University of Oregon School of Law in the United States (2008) and a PhD Degree in international water law from IHP-Help Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science under the auspices of UNESCO, University of Dundee, UK (2012).
Dr Ziganshina has been working at SIC ICWC of Central Asia since 2003. She is also an associate professor of the Department of Ecology and Water Management, the Faculty of Hydroreclamation,at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (since 2018); vice-chair of the Implementation Committee under the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (since 2015); and a Governor at the World Water Council (2023-2026).
She has 20 years’ experience working as a legal and policy expert in water resources management at national and transboundary levels; in managing and coordinating regional projects; research and teaching on international and national water law and policy, water governance, security and diplomacy;
Initiated the establishment and coordinated the first in Central Asia Gender and Water Initiative and Expert Platform on Water Security, Sustainable Development and Future Studies.
Selected publications
Dr Ziganshina is authored more than 50 publications.
Ziganshina D. Transboundary water allocation in the Amudarya basin of Central Asia. In J.Rouillard, Ch. Babbitt, E. Challies, J-D. Rinaudo (eds) Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture: Transitioning from Open to Regulated Access. (IWA Publishing, 2022).
Ziganshina D. Position Paper “9th World Water forum: Central Asia for peace and development. Priorities, actions and challenges for the future”. Dushanbe. 2022.
Ziganshina D. and Sehring J. Effectiveness, challenges and potential of transboundary water governance institutions in the Aral Sea basin of Central Asia. In Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung / The Stimson Center (eds) International Hydro-diplomacy: Building and Strengthening Regional Institutions for Water Conflict Prevention. Pre-conference Study 2021, pp.19 -29
Ziganshina D. and de Schutter J. Paving the way for evidence-driven transboundary water cooperation in Central Asia. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Oct. 2021.
Ziganshina D., Galustyan A., Abasova D. Nature use and environmental matters in statements made by the EECCA countries at the UN General Assembly debates / Water Sector of Russia: Problems, technologies, management. No 3, 2021.
Ziganshina, D. (2021). Institutional mechanisms for preventing and resolving cross-border water disputes. AJIL Unbound, 115, 195-200.
Ziganshina, D., Janusz-Pawletta, B. The principle of no significant harm in the Central Asian context. Int Environ Agreements (2020).
Dukhovny V., Ziganshina D., Soko0000lov V. Overview of the use and management of water resources in Central Asia: A discussion document. OECD. 2020.
Dukhovny V., Ziganshina D. Prospective development of water economy and irrigation in the EECCA region. Melioration and Water Management 2020(3):22-27.
Ziganshina D. Transboundary environmental assessment in the Aral Sea basin: the interplay of international and domestic law. Central Asian Journal of Water Research. 2018, 4(2): 27- 47.
Xenarios S. et al (eds). The Aral Sea Basin: Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia. London, Routledge, 1st ed, 2019 (two chapters Sehring J., Ziganshina D., Krasznai M., Stoffelen T. International actors and initiatives for sustainable water management and Ibatullin S., Ziganshina D. The future of water resources).
Ziganshina D. Aral Sea Basin in Central Asia. In S. McCaffrey & C. Leb (eds.) Research Handbook on International Water Law (Edgar, 2018)
Management (Article 24). In L.B. de Chazournes et all (eds.) The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. A Commentary (OUP, 2018)
Ziganshina D. Promoting transboundary water security in the Aral Sea basin through international law (Brill/Nijhoff, 2014).
Integrated water resources management in Central Asia: The challenges of managing large transboundary rivers. Global Water Partnership Technical Focus Paper (Global Water Partnership, 2014) (co-authors: V.A. Dukhovny and V.I. Sokolov).
Ziganshina D. Procedural system of transboundary water cooperation in the Aral Sea basin. In A. Kibariglu et all (eds.) Water law and cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigrus Region: A comparative and interdisciplinary approach, (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013).
Ziganshina D. Legal framework governing transboundary waters in the Aral Sea basin: What is a role for the UNWC? In A. Rieu-Clarke, and F. R. Loures (eds.) The UN Watercourses Convention in force: Strengthening international law for transboundary water management, (Earthscan, 2013).
Dukhovny V., Sokolov V., Ziganshina D. Integrated water resources management in Central Asia as a way of survival in conditions of water scarcity (2013) 311 Quaternary International 181-188.
Ziganshina D. International water law in Central Asia: The nature of substantive norms and what flows from it (2012) 2/1 Asian Journal of International Law 169-192