Abstract

This article addresses a number of key theoretical debates concerning transboundary resource management, primarily from within the disciplines of political geography and international relations, by presenting the most ‘celebrated’ transboundary resources at the urban scale of Nicosia. For simple reasons of chronology, these transboundary linkages have been split into those established pre-partition (water resources and electricity supplies), those established intra-partition (Nicosia’s sanitary sewerage system), and those established post-partition (the Nicosia Master Plan). Just as with the island of Cyprus in general, the study of transboundary resource management in Nicosia is embryonic, fragmented, and invariably raises contradictions; this article seeks to lay some foundations for documenting such complex intermunicipal, intercommunal and (de facto) ‘international’ relations in the urban context, in order to further an understanding of not only how and why they developed, but what they may augur for the future.

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